Super Eagles seem set to play fellow 2019 AFCON qualifiers Benin in a prep game in June after a proposed friendly with Ghana was called off.
Nigerian striker Henry Onyekuru has urged his Galatasary teammates to continue working hard and avoid mistakes as the race for the Turkish Super Lig title getting tougher.
Galatasary are five points behind leaders Istanbul Basaksehir who hosts Rizespor on Sunday and one point ahead of Besiktas who plays Sivasapor next Monday.
Speaking ahead of his side next game against Kayserispor, Onyekuru encourages his side to work harder and avoid mistakes.
“You know anything can happen in football. There is five-pointdifference but every moment can be everything. We need to fix ourmistakes, we need to work harder and continue without error. As Ihave just said, anything can happen at any moment,” he concluded.
Onyekuru scored Galatasary only goal in their 1-1 draw against bitter rivals Fenerbache last weekend , the former Eupen striker however said he enjoyed the feeling of scoring in a derby game.
“When you play against your rival, it is a very important and nice feeling for a footballer to score in such a match. I’m happy to have this feeling, but it was a game we wanted to win,” Onyekuru told Galatasaray’s official website.
“The score did not satisfy us. After this time, we have nothing to do. We have to put this match aside and prepare for each match separately. He concluded.
Nigeria wrestling National team Head Coach Purity Akuh has revealed his displeasure towards the inability of the Nigerian Government to honour the National Wrestling team for their heroic display at recently concluded African Wrestling Championship.
The Nigerian team finished top of the medals table at the African Wrestling Championship in Tunisia with the most of the athletes booking their place at next year’s Olympic games in Tokyo.
While reacting to the reception of their turkish counterparts by the Turkish Government for winning the European wrestling championship, Akuh believes the Nigerian wrestlers deserves same treatment from their Government and added that the actions of the Nigerian Government is the reason some athletes dumped the country.
“Oh my dear country, now i see reasons why Nigerian athletes prefer to represent other countries“
“The same continental trophy we won in Hammamet, Tunisia, The Turkish Wrestling team won the same at the just concluded European wrestling championships and were received and honoured.“
“We are back home without been noticed by President, top ministry officials, Nigeria Olympic committee, Governor from our States# so painful.“ Akuh said.
The duo of Super Eagles Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheanacho are gunning for Leicester City’s Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season awards respectively.
Ndidi has been present in the Leicester City squad all season, the midfielder is the current holder of the Young Player of the Season award and he’s one of the favorites for the Player‘s of the year award.
The 22 year old former Genk midfielder‘s performance has been excellent for the Foxes since joining the Club and has scored two goals from 34 Premier League games this season.
As for Iheanacho , the attacker has struggled to hold down a regular place the in the team with manager Brenda Rogers preferring Jamie Vardy who’s also nominated for the player of the year award in attack.
The former Manchester City forward has scored once in 28 league appearances for Leicester City, hence his chance of winning award is slim.
The winner of the awards will be announced at the end of the seasonceremony at the King Power Stadium on May 7th 2019.
Former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has said that Nigeria Super Eagles are in the weakest group in the forthcoming African Cup of Nations tournament holding in Egypt.
Former Super Falcons coach, James Peters has urged the senior women’s national team, the Super Falcons of Nigeria to just focus and take each game one after the other if they are to succeed at the FIFA women’s world cup to be held by France, saying that they can go as far as the semi final.
Meanwhile the Falcons will contend with Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and Mali in the group phase of this year’s WAFU B Women’s Tournament taking place in Abidjan, 8th – 18th May. They will play in Group B.
Next month’s tournament will serve as the last preparatory competition for the Super Falcons before they fly to their final camp in Austria ahead of the 8thFIFA Women’s World Cup finals in France.
Already, the Falcons have participated in tune –up tournaments in China, Cyprus and Spain, and speaking with www.brila.net, Peters also added that e wants the girls to show tactical.
“Every game is taken one at a time, you will not play the last game before the first match”
“We will not assume that we will go there and defeat all the other teams in the championship. We have to be confident, the girls need to be confident, but not over confident.”
“I hope to see them do well technically and tactically, and I believe we will get to the semi final of the world cup”.
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter has outlined his plans to prepare his side ahead of the AFCON in Egypt.
Baxter is yet to select players that will feature this year’s Cosafa Cup ahead of the African Nations Cup in Egypt in June.
This year’s COSAFA tournament‚ however‚ remains up in the air after Zimbabwe suddenly pulled out of hosting the annual event without warning last month.
Speaking with www.brila.net, Baxter revealed that the squad for the COSAFA would be different from that of the AFCON, as they would use the tournament to check some players he is looking to add to his team.
“We consider arranging a squad so as to feature in the COSAFA tournament but not the same squad as the AFCON but we do want to at least bring some players we would love to check”
“And so we will be move into that camp very early. Then we will take the full squad to Dubai, play some friendly matches before moving into our base camp in Cairo”.
Last Friday’s Nations Cup draw saw Bafana were pitted against Ivory Coast‚ Namibia and Morocco in Group D after the draw was conducted in Cairo.
The minister of youth and sports development Solomon Dalung has expressed worries on the matter funding in sports urging the National Assembly to give more to Sports in subsequent Budgetary allocations.
Coach of Uganda U17 national football team Kwesi Fabin has stated that his side hopes to consolidate on the win recorded last time against host nation ahead of the team’s final group stage game against Nigeria’s U17 national team.
Fabin it was gathered by www.brila.net said he believes in the ability of his team to come up with even a stronger and better performance against Nigeria in order to also realise the team’s objective of qualifying from the group and booking a place at the FIFA U17 world cup in Brazil.
“There is more to play for and we just want to carry this momentum into the Nigeria game and see what happens but we believe that If we play and add a little hard work to it, we will be able to win Nigeria and get a ticket to Brazil.”
Nigeria play Uganda in the final group stage game to determine the eventual two that will qualify with a point enough for Nigeria to qualify as group winner.
Enugu Rangers coach Gbenga Ogunbote has stated that the Flying Antelopes are solely focused on making and confirming the spot for Super six qualification as the domestic regular season enters crucial stage towards the end of the season.
Ogunbote in a chat with www.brila.net admitted that his team has had a good run so far but stressed that they simply want to take things in phases and that the talk of what they can achieve with their form this season will now come up when they get to the Super six mini league.
“Yea we thank God we have done well so far this season but nothing has been decided yet. Our run hopefully will take us to the Super six which is what we are currently playing for and from there we start talking of how to end the season well.”
Enugu Rangers sit top of the league table and next up his a fixture at home to Lagos based NPFL side MFM.
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