Nigeria’s hopefuls for glory at the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals landed in the city of Ismailia, Egypt on Sunday evening, 12 days to the kick-off of the championship.
Nigeria’s bid to win a fourth AFCON title in Egypt is attainable, because the Super Eagles are a quality side with the right mentality to pull it off, says Esperance de Tunis forward Junior Lokosa.
Former Super Falcons Chris Danjuma says the Country deserves a standard Women’s Professional Football League with the potential to help improve the respective national teams.
Kano Pillars and Enyimba are going neck to neck in the NPFL Super 6 after three round of matches, separated by a point.
Eden Hazard has revealed that Real Madrid was the only club he would have joined after leaving Chelsea.
Hazard who joined Madrid on Friday paid tribute to the Blues saying leaving west London side was the hardest decision of his career.
The Belgian left Stamford Bridge for Santiago Bernabeu for a reported fee of £88m which could rise to £130m. The 28-year-old signed a five-year contract with the Los Blancos until 2024.
“To my Chelsea friends and family. You now know that I will be joining Real Madrid. It’s no secret that it was my dream to play for them since I was a young boy just scoring my first goal.
I have tried my very best not to distract myself or the team through this difficult period of speculation and media attention, especially the last 6 months,” he said.
“Now the Clubs have reached an agreement I hope you understand I had to pursue my next chapter, just as each and every one of you should when you have the chance to pursue your dream. ”
Biggest decision
“Leaving Chelsea is the biggest and toughest decision in my career to date. Now it’s in the open I would like to put on record one thing was always clear to me, I have loved every moment at Chelsea and not once did I ever consider, nor would I have left for any other Club.”
Hazard leaves Chelsea with two Premier League titles, two Europa League, one FA Cup, and a League Cup.
The Nigeria football federation has set aside Monday 10th June to pay the Nigeria u20 team all the outstanding match bonuses and camp allowances, Brila.net reports authoritatively.
The Flying Eagles team won their first group game against Qatar by 4-0, lost 2-0 to USA in the second game and drew 1-1 against Ukraine.
The Paul Aigbogun-led side scaled through to the round of 16 with four points as best losers.
The flying Eagles team, after an embarrassing campaign at the Poland world cup, protested the non payment of their allowance and camp bonuses before leaving their Hotel room in Poland.
The players are back in Nigeria, a member of the team who pleaded anonymity said the NFF has asked them to come Monday the 10th of June for their payment.
“We were told to come on Monday 10th of June for our money ” the players told brila.net exclusively.
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