Author: Brila

Super Eagles Coordinator Patrick Pascal has stated that his new role with NPFL side Wikki Tourist as Special Adviser to the newly constituted Rescue Team by the Bauchi state Government will not affects his national ream duties. Pascal told www.brila.net that he was initially contacted to take charge of the club as General manager but had to decline because of his role with the national team. “There is no problem, nobody say I must stay in an office. With technology you can reach and advise anybody from any part of the world. They even want to give me the chairman…

Former Warri wolves coach Sam Okpodu has tasked the LMC and the NFF to take very serious issue of payment of players and coaches salaries. Okpodu in a chat with www.brila.net reacting to resolutions of the meeting between the LMC chieftain and club chairmen yesterday said it is very imperative that the league organisers and the football federation act promptly in welfare of players and coaches salaries just the way they act when it comes to sanctioning erring clubs and persons. Fabiyi shifts attention away from attack:leaves LMC to handle case Gombe united goalkeeper Fabiyi Emmanuel has revealed that he…

Technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation Bitrus Bewerang has stated that the CAF License courses will benefit coaches and that the Football Federation is doing her own bit in training and retraining of coaches with the commencement of the CAF C License coaching course which started Monday in Abuja but that it is left for the coaches to make themselves employable outside Nigeria. Bewerang in a chat with Brila.net said the certification has become necessary so as to ensure that Nigerian coaches are not left behind in the grading and standardization of her coaches. “We are now making sure…

Former board member of the NFF Shuaibu Gara Gombe has lamented the current state of some of the key players of the senior national team as the Super Eagles shape up for important AFCON 2019 and FIFA 2018 world cup qualifiers. Gara Gombe in a chat with www.brila.net expresses serious concerns on where they play and how tough it has become for some of them to even get adequate playing time. “Nigeria is the only country who has his top players playing in China, who knows China with football? The other reliable  players of the Super Eagles, where are they…

The Ghana FA is expected to ring MASSIVE changes to the technical and management teams of the various national teams today (Tuesday), GHANAsoccernet.com sources say. Anxiety has hit the roof top with lobbyists working around the clock to retain their positions. What is clear is that re-appointed Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah will work with a new backroom staff. Former Ghana captain Stephen Appiah is expected to be named the new tea manager of the Black Stars while Ibrahim Tanko and Maxwell Konadu will deputize for Appiah. Former Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Richard Kingson will replace Nassam Yakubu as the Black…

After one month of his appointment, Kwesi Appiah will officially be unveiled to the media today, May 16, 2017 at the Ghana Football Association’s headquarters located at Ridge in Accra, Ghana. The former Black Stars captain and gaffer, James Kwesi Appiah was appointed for the second time as the head coach of the senior national team effective from May 01, 2017. His first test will be on July 01 when Ghana takes on the United States of America in a friendly international match in East Hartford. The unveiling will offer him the opportunity to lay bare his plans and programs…

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen has married girlfriend Daniela Jehle at a small ceremony in Barcelona. The German took time out from his side’s pursuit for the Spanish title to tie the knot at a small ceremony in Sitges. And Jehle took time to post moments from their special day on Instagram as the pair walked out into the Catalan sunshine. The pair started dating in 2012 when the German international was still playing for Borussia Monchengladbach, before Jehle followed her boyfriend to Barcelona when he moved in 2014.

Member of the House committee on Sports Ayodeji Joseph has stated that the election into the different Sports Federation must not go on against the call from the House of Assembly after the house summoned the Minister to show up to clarify the new guidelines. Ayodeji in a chat with www.brila.net said should the election go ahead without any appearance or hearing with the Minister, the election will be null and void and aggrieved candidates will have express right to go to the civil the court. “Any election that goes ahead without resolution by the national assembly is null and…

Ahead of the Afcon 2019 qualifier between Nigeria’s super Eagles & the Bafana Bafana of South Africa slated for 10th of June in Uyo, Assistant Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, Siji Lagunju has given his backing to the caliber of players invited to prosecute the match. Lagunju in a chat with www.brila.net said he believes that Gernot Rohr’s assistants has done well together with the technical adviser, & added that only the best legs will be selected for the South Africa tie. “The technical crew of Rohr, his assistant Salisu and the rest of them, I know they…

On Monday, Pep Guardiola accepts he would have been sacked by Barcelona or Bayern Munich for under-achieving like he has at Manchester City. Having arrived at the Etihad to huge expectation last summer but will end a season empty-handed for the first time in his coaching career as City fight to finish in the top four. Guardiola said: ‘In my situation at a big club, I’m sacked. I’m out. Sure. Definitely. At the clubs I worked at before, I am not here. ‘Yeah, because I have to win. Pressure is what I had when I arrived in Barcelona with nothing…