Super Eagles forward Odion Ighalo has outlined his plan to finish at least in the semi-final or final of the forthcoming AFCON in Egypt while doing his duty of scoring goals along the way.
Former Nigerian international, Peter Osaze Odemwingie announced his departure from active football last week at the age of 37, and he has revealed that the decision to have his boots hung and retire from the game was a tough decision.
Odemwingie has spoken to his former club Stoke City after his disclosure of hanging up his boots from the professional game a few days ago.
Asked if it was a tough decision to make, the former Potters forward stated that it was not easy while stating that the bright memories during his time as a football player would help him cope better during retirement.
“Something we enjoyed for so many years, but its limited time for it. Luckily I lasted longer in the game and so many bright memories from my playing days.”
Odemwingie retires having played professionally in France, England, Russia, and Indonesia. His playing career span almost two decades.
Super Eagles won’t be considered underdogs at the 2019 African Cup of Nations, but the team will also not be considered outright favorites for the title, Head Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted.
Nigeria qualified for the football showpiece in style; returning after missing two consecutive editions, but Rohr says it’s not lost on his players to stay humble and keep grinding.
In a chat with brila.net he dispelled any notion that the three times champion should be considered darkhorse.
‘No we’re not underdogs, we have a good team and we can hope to go far, but we’re also not the absolute favorites to win the competition.’
Assistant coach of Nigeria’s U17 national football team Nduka Ugbade has declared that Nigeria is ready to feature and compete at the fast approaching CAF Africa U17 cup of nations which begins this coming Sunday in far away Tanzania.
Ugbade speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the team is set for the challenge of picking a world cup spot of the four spots available which is the prime target and also to ensure they are on ground to play until the very last game of the competition where they get a chance to challenge for the trophy proper.
“We’re ready at least we’ve built a team of about 21 players going to Tanzania for the cup of nations of the U17 and with what we have now we very much believe that we can be comfortable enough to tell Nigerians that we are going to qualify for the world cup.”
Nigeria will gets her campaign underway at the tournament when the take on host nation Tanzania in the first game of the competition on Sunday.
Captain of NPFL side Sunshine stars Abe Sunday has stated that the Owena waves will not relegate at the end of the season despite a run of just one win in the last seven matches which has seen the team gone down neck deep in the relegation battle.
Sunday speaking with www.brila.net shortly after the team’s latest 1-0 defeat to Lobi stars in Makurdi said they now shift concentration to the next two games as they seek to protect their topflight status for now.
“God forbid Sunshine stars will not relegate and if we don’t want Sunshine to relegate we will continue to work hard to make sure we get more results. As we are going now we have two games now that we target to bounce back into reckoning.”
Sunshine stars next play on Thursday in a reverse fixture against Lobi stars in Akure with another home fixture on Sunday against Enugu Rangers.
After the kpokporisation of Icelandic side wey be UMF Selfoss, Naija Super Falcons no fit repeat the same against fellow World cup bound team wey be Canada for the Pinatar Arena women football festival as dem fall yakata 2-1 for Spain.
Tori wey dey say Canada coachee wey be Heiner-Moller happy wella say dem play Naija as dem get another African for their World cup group E wey be Cameroon and dem believe say dis na another way to carry test their strength and ready for the World cup.
As of half-time Nigeria bin dey lead with goal wey Desire Okparanozie score for the 26th Min but the Canadians come back for the second half with vexation to level up with goals from Janine Beckie(47mins) and Sophie Schmidt (53Mins) to kolobi the game 2-1.
Plenty improvements dey for the Nigerian ladies side but dem still need work to do as dem go jam tough opponents for group A that is France , Norway and South Korea.
Canada wey be number 5 for World bin start their waka against England women and dem kpokpo dem 1-0 and now dem don beat Naija 2-1 to take continue their ogbonge waka for the Pinatar Arena women football festival.
Canada go start thier world cup waka for France against No. 46 Cameroon before facing No. 19 New Zealand and the eighth-ranked Netherlands.
One Hibernian fan wey provoke confront Rangers skippo James Tavernier ontop don go prison for 100 days.
Cameron Mack gree say im breach the peace charge for Easter Road for March and dem don ban am to attend any football games for 10 years.
Cameron bin run from im seat enter pitch before half-time for the 1-1 draw and e come kick the ball throway as the defender bin wan take throw-in and e come dey harrass am before police and stewards come enter the matter.
Sheriff Adrian Cottam tok say the prison sentence na the only way to carry show say society no like wetin im do join the many many gbeges wey don shel
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