By Niyi Adeyi – The Nigerian female football star, Asisat Oshoala, has been named the first Nigerian BBC World Service Footballer of the year. Oshoala, after weeks of nomination, defeated other nominees, including Spain’s Veronica Boquete, German Nadine Kessler, Scot Kim Little and Brazilian Marta to emerge the current winner. In a brief reaction after […]
By Ayo Balogun – Again, another candidate Figo, jostling for the exalted world Football Governing body FIFA Presidency, had pulled out of the contest. Figo, a 42 year old, ex-Portugal midfielder backed out, the same day another former co-aspirant – 67 year old Van Pragg followed the same suit. The latest development has now left […]
Raheem Sterling should not be criticised for “being ambitious and wanting to win trophies”, according to former Blackburn striker Chris Sutton. The Liverpool forward, 20, is expected to tell manager Brendan Rodgers and chief executive Ian Ayre on Friday that he wants to leave Anfield this summer. Several former Reds players have since criticised Sterling […]
Juventus will meet Barcelona in the Champions League final after Alvaro Morata scored against his former club to knock holders Real Madrid out. Real trailed 2-1 from the first leg but levelled on aggregate through Cristiano Ronaldo’s penalty after James Rodriguez was caught by Giorgio Chiellini. A first ‘El Clasico’ final looked on the cards […]
Barcelona reached their first Champions League final since 2011, despite Pep Guardiola’s Bayern Munich salvaging pride in the return leg in Germany. Trailing 3-0 from the first leg, Bayern revived their hopes through Medhi Benatia’s early downward header. Barca levelled when Luis Suarez squared for a tap-in from Neymar, who drilled in after the pair […]
Burnley was relegated from the Premier League despite a 1-0 win at Hull that dropped the home side into the bottom three on Saturday. Danny Ings’ 62nd-minute strike ended Burnley’s goal drought of more than 10 hours but results elsewhere sent the team down after just one season back in the top division. Hull could […]
Floyd Mayweather claimed a unanimous points verdict over Manny Pacquiao to win the richest fight in boxing history and maintain his perfect record. Mayweather, unbeaten in 48 professional fights stretching back to 1996, retains his WBC and WBA welterweight titles and takes the WBO belt from Pacquiao. The American was caught with the odd good […]
History Repeated As Barcelona Pair With Bayern Munich In UEFA Champions Semi Final. The first cracker is between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, while the second decisive encounter will be staged between Juventus and Real Madrid. The first legs were scheduled for May 5 and 6, while the second legs hold on May 12 and 13.It […]
Nigeria is in the lead of the ongoing 2015 African Beach Soccer Championship in Seychelles, as the Super sand Eagles Wednesday defeated Egypt in their second group match. The encounter ended in 4 – 1 in favour of Nigerian side. The team which trounced the host country with 10 – 1 in their first group […]
Nigeria’s senior female football team, Super Falcons, on Friday in Abuja, thrashed their Malian counterparts 8-0 in the final round return leg of the All African Games (AAG), qualifiers. The Falcons has, therefore, secured a place at the AAG 2015 scheduled for Congo Brazzaville in September. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that fans […]
By Niyi Adeyi – With a lone goal, the Nigeria Under 20 team – Flying Eagles, Sunday night defeated the host, Senegal, of the 19th Africa Youth Championship (AYC). Senegal and Nigeria entangled a fortnight in the first round of the groups’ cracker. The Flying Eagles won by 3 – 1. The Sunday night decisive […]
By Niyi Adeyi – For failing to arrive on time for their last Saturday encounter with Tunisia’s Club, Club Africain, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has disqualified the Nigerian side, Dolphins from Confederation Cup. Dolphins’ travail began when they missed their flight from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital due to a row over […]
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Ahead of the 2016 (RIO) Olympic games tagged “Brazil 2016”, a Lagos based Sprinter development outfit, “Making of Champions” has begun a 2- day talent hunt of young grass root Athletes in the south east Nigeria. The event, according to initiator of the programme, Bambo Akani, is aimed at discovering scores […]
George Boyd’s goal gave Burnley a famous win against Manchester City to further damage the champions’ hopes of retaining their Premier League title. Boyd arrowed in a low half-volley after a poor headed clearance from returning City captain Vincent Kompany. The visitors had wasted chances as Edin Dzeko had a shot saved by Tom Heaton […]
…Crash Out Of Champions League Chelsea’s players acted like “babies” during the incident that led to Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s red card on Wednesday, the Paris St-Germain striker says. The Swede was sent off for a tackle on Oscar after 31 minutes but PSG survived the last hour of normal time and extra time to knock Chelsea […]
Real Madrid survived a real scare to qualify for their fifth successive Champions League quarter-final despite conceding four away goals to an impressive Schalke. The holders were hanging on in the final few seconds as Schalke were just one goal away from producing one of the competition’s biggest shocks after winning the second leg. Trailing […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Controversies continued to trail the fresh contract of national coaching job offered the Super Eagles handler, Stephen Keshi , the Sports Minister, Tammy Danagogo, has declared that Keshi is not indispensable as the Chief Coach of the National team The Minister made the declaration on Friday in Abuja while responding to […]
In the spirit of keeping fit, President Goodluck Jonathan will tomorrow, Saturday, lead government officials as well as sportsmen and women on an out-door physical training exercise in Abuja aimed at promoting sports and fitness in Nigeria. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati in a statement Friday, indicated that the […]
Stephen Keshi has debunked the report making the round that he rejected the new contract, offered him by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). His agent, Emmanuel Addo according to Global.com, said neither him nor former Super Eagles Coach had made public his position, with regards to the fresh contract. Addo indicated he was embarrassed when […]
Philippe Coutinho scored a stunning winner as Liverpool dented Manchester City’s Premier League title defence with a narrow victory at Anfield. Jordan Henderson’s curling effort put the Reds ahead before Edin Dzeko finished off a slick move to equalise. But Brazil midfielder Coutinho capped a fine display with the decisive goal when he struck from […]
