NFF President Amaju Pinnick
Yesterday, Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka scored another screamer from almost 30 yards out against Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United in a 2-nil victory.
The ball deflected off Herrera and lobbed over De Gea with the United goalkeeper begging for mercy as he couldn’t parry the ball out leaving him to pick the ball from the back of the net.
Today he is our man crush and monday inspirational figure.
Granit Xhaka has been criticised recently for his tackles and bookings but the man is not willing to change his game. Insisting you have to believe in yourself and not put pressure on yourself to succeed.
‘I have learned one thing in my life: If I put too much pressure on myself, then everything goes wrong’. He once said
Well, incase you missed the goal. You can still see the highlight here and take some tea to calm your nerves.
Enjoy.
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Celtic swept up the major prizes at PFA Scotland’s annual awards dinner in Glasgow last night.
Former Swansea and Aston Villa winger, Scott Sinclair who scored 25 goals in his debut campaign at Parkhead capped off an impressive season by winning the Player of the Year award.
Brendan Rodgers claimed the Manager’s prize after leading his side to an unbeaten domestic run of 43 games.
Then to put the icing on the cake after a remarkable season for the champions, Kieran Tierney won the Young Player of the Year award for the second successive season.
Rodgers now becomes the first manager to win both the English League Manager’s Association award and that voted for by their Scottish counterparts
Rodgers, who won the English award in 2014 during his time as Liverpool boss, said: ‘I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I have been fortunate to have really good experiences and I was fortunate enough to win a similar award down in the Premier League in England, and that was very satisfying.
‘Likewise here. It’s a prestigious award and you only need to look at the people who have won it before me and the great history of Scottish coaches. I received it with great pride.
‘I am privileged and honoured to be working up here.’
La Liga country representative and former nigerian international Mutiu Adepoju has insisted that the recently concluded U15 NPFL competition is basically to allow clubs in the league to have a structure and also enable the young talents combine schooling with football education.
Meanwhile, Critics of the initiative say the competition is not the right platform to indeed get talented players for the junior cadre of the national team and will not improve the fortune of the clubs in the league.
However, Adepoju has rubbish such claims and said the project in no distant future will begin to yield dividend for clubs and the country.
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William Troost-Ekong has suffered his first defeat with KAA Gent in the league following Sunday’s 4-3 loss against KV Oostende.
Former spokesman of the NFF Austin Mgbolu has said that Nigeria has the right caliber of players in the senior national team who can make the country proud despite most of them having little or no playing time in their respective clubs.
He added that some of the members of the super eagles can relaunch their careers using the national team as a platform to propel themselves as the country prepares for the Afcon qualifier against south Africa next month.
Foremost Nigerian female table tennis player and five time olympian, Bose Kaffo has admonised the table tennis federation to do all in it’s powers to support the existing players who are making the country proud.
Bose said, this became necessary because if support in all areas are not given to the existing players they may just fade away like them who represented the country for many years.
She also added that the NTTF should begin a program that will fish out new talents to replace the current crops of players and keep the sport alive.
Players of the senior volleyball team has all reported to camp following the team’s forthcoming Africa qualifier in Maputo, Mozambique slated for the 10th of May,2017.
In a chat with sports radio brila.net the secretary general of the volley ball federation Alhaji Maikano Adamu said, all the athletes reported on time and are in high spirit for the challenges ahead of them.
He said all necessary arrangements regarding the traveling logistics have been taken care of by the federation.
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The experience of playing and winning Bronze at the Olympic games is greater than any thing else even the FIFA World Cup.
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