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 […]
Arsenal’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2010 suffered a stunning blow as they slumped to a shock 3-1 home defeat by Monaco. The Gunners looked to have been handed a favourable draw but a display that plumbed the depths of incompetence and naivety leaves them facing […]
At last, Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, has lost in his bid to be engaged the Chief Coach of the Burkina Faso National team. The 2013 AFCON winner, Wednesday lost to another top contender, a 61 years old German, Genort Rohr, who now replaces the former handler, Paul Put. The controversial Keshi, was generally speculated […]
Luis Suarez marked his first return to England since a £75m summer move to Barcelona with two goals that leave Manchester City on the brink of a Champions League exit. The former Liverpool striker demonstrated the quality the Premier League has been missing – and which defenders have been spared – with two strikes in […]
Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic’s violent conduct ban has been reduced from three games to two, but he will still miss Sunday’s League Cup final. The Football Association’s independent regulatory commission partially upheld an appeal lodged by Chelsea on Tuesday. Matic, 26, was sent off in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Burnley after reacting to a high […]
By Adebiyi Adeseye – Ivorian and four times African Footballer of the year, Yaya Toure will be conspicuously missing in action tonight (Tuesday), when his Club, Manchester City filed out against the Spanish outfit, Barcelona due to suspension in the final group game of the tournament. Toure joined the English premier league champion from Barcelona […]
By Adesye Adebiyi – Ex-Arsenal Captain, Thierry Henry has returned to take a coaching career in his former club, with target to join the club’s backroom staff to focus on the development of the young Gunners. The former French mid fielder was Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer, having kicked into the net 228 times in 376 […]
Cristiano Ronaldo ended a three-game goal drought as Real Madrid took control of their Champions League last-16 tie with Schalke in Gelsenkirchen. The forward’s form was questioned before kick-off but he headed in Dani Carvajal’s cross to open the scoring. He also created the second goal which arrived moments after Schalke’s Felix Platte had smashed […]
