Author: Adebanjo Ogunseye
Super Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr has called up a total of 30 players for next month’s opening rounds of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying campaign, in which Nigeria will host Liberia in Lagos on Friday, 3rd September (Day 1) and tackle Cape Verde in Mindelo on Tuesday, 7th September (Day 2).
The Draw Ceremony for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals will hold in Yaounde, capital of host nation Cameroon on Tuesday, with three –time champions Nigeria in Pot 1 of the draw, and with the possibility of being drawn against seven –time winners Egypt (Pot 2), 2022 FIFA World Cup foes Cape Verde (Pot 3) and the gritty and gutsy Comoros team that recently achieved a first-ever qualification for the Africa Cup of Nations (Pot 4).
The Nigeria Football Federation has felicitated with the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and the person of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Sunday Dare on Nigeria’s outing at the 32nd Olympics which ended in Tokyo, Japan few days ago.
The remains of former Chairman of then Nigeria Football Association Brigadier-General Dominic Obukadata Oneya, who died in his home in Warri on Thursday, will be buried on 10th September 2021.
The Chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League, Aisha Falode, has congratulated the players and officials of Nigeria Women Football League Premiership club, Rivers Angels Football Club of Port Harcourt, for picking one of the two WAFU B tickets to play in the CAF Women African Champions League.
Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has left NPFL side Kano pillars to join Turkish side, Fatih Karagümrük, with the deal on the verge of being made official, according to Fotomac.
Frank Onyeka has completed his move from FC Midtjylland to the English Premier League side, Brentford.
Italy won the European Championship for the second time by beating England 3-2 on penalties on Sunday. The match finished 1-1 after extra time.
Premier League side Crystal Palace has activated an £8million release clause in Michael Olise’s contract and he is now closing in on a move to Selhurst Park.
Former Nigeria national team coach Samson Siasia, who was banned from the game for life by the world governing body FIFA, has had his sanction reduced to five years.
