Nigeria and Africa’s first female Skeleton athlete at a Winter Olympics Simidele Adeagbo revealed she’s ready to set another record in her illustrious career.
Super Eagles forward Samuel Chukwueze scored his fifth goal of the season for Villarreal who lost 3-1 to Espanyol in Thursday’s Copa del Rey round of 16, second leg clash.
Former Chelsea and Real Madrid Manager Jose Mourinho has pledged to return to football at a “top level” a month on from being sacked by Manchester United.
“I want to coach,” Mourinho told BeIN SPORTS. “I am too young, I am in football for a long, long time, but I will be 56 in a couple of weeks and am really too young.
“Where I am going to stay is where I belong, I belong to top football. I belong to top-level football and (that) is where I am going to be.”
The English giants have thrived since the Portuguese’s departure, winning all six of their games under caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
That is in start contrast to the form under Mourinho that saw United fall 19 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool after just 19 games before he was let go after two-and-a-half years in charge.
Mourinho’s time at Old Trafford was riddled with clashes with key players, most notably Paul Pogba.
The French World Cup winner was one of United’s first signings after Mourinho was appointed for a then world-record £89 million in 2016.
But Pogba was dropped for Mourinho’s final three Premier League games in charge.
“The phrase I kept with me from (former United manager) Sir Alex Ferguson was, ‘the day a player is more important than the club, goodbye’. Not anymore,” added Mourinho.
“The manager is there to coach them, the manager is not there to keep the discipline at any cost.
“The structure must be made, the structure must be there to protect the manager and for the players to feel that everything is in place and that they are not going to arrive into a situation where they feel more powerful than they used to be.”
Not only have United’s results picked up under Solskjaer, but the attacking brand of football employed by the Norwegian is an embodiment of that he knew as a player at Old Trafford for 11 years under Ferguson.
The Red Devils have scored 17 goals in the last six games.
However, Mourinho also turned on those who have criticised his far more cautious approach, claiming he deserved to be respected like Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and Napoli boss Carlo Ancelotti for his success in a glittering coaching career.
“It is very easy to play well and not win, it is very easy to be behind a certain idea of a certain football without results.
“The people that win and the people that win consistently — because you can win isolated and then disappear — has obviously a different idea about that.
“If you speak about Guardiola, Ancelotti, about one where obviously I belong, that have a career of victories for a long, long period, where are the young ones with a real impact in terms of results? Where are they?”
Tottenham Hotspur Boss Mauricio Pochettino has compared the departed midfielder Moussa Dembele to his PSG teammate and Nigeria football Legend, Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha.
Former Super Eagles striker, Stephen Ayodele Makinwa has submitted that the national team is endowed with players who can deliver for the country in major tournaments as we currently have a team on the ground.
Former Nigerian defender and ex-international, Yisa Sofoluwe has thrown his weight behind Eagles gaffer, Gernot Rohr to select the best set of players ahead of this summer’s AFCON.
Super Eagles striker and Galatasaray of Turkey frontman, Henry Onyekuru has revealed that he is currently enjoying his football in Turkey with the club coached by Fatih Terim.
Rivers Hoopers Manager Odaudu Ogoh has stated that the Porthacourt based side will fortify their team with new additions ahead of hostilities in the new FIBA Africa Basketball league which begins next month in different African cities.
General secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation Dr. Mohammed Sanusi has downplayed the 3-0 defeat suffered by Nigeria’s women national team, Super Falcons against China women in the China Invitational tourney.
Nigeria’s sole CAF champions league campaigner Lobi stars are in Ivory coast to rip-off points against Ivorian giant ASEC Mimosas according to defensive midfielder Kelly Kester ahead of Saturday’s CAF champions league second group stage match.
The former Akwa united player Kester told www.brila.net that they want to win every game but are not under any illusion to think that it will be easy for them to achieve. Kester finally added that whichever way, the NPFL champions are solely focused on denying the host from picking point(s).