Author: Brila

Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has been given 20 days to respond to an offer from Inter Milan.

Serena Williams is already plotting a return to tennis next year once she has given birth, saying she ‘can’t wait’ to introduce her first child to the players box.

Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez has been banned from hosting any parties, because her boyfriend thinks they are unlucky.

Puma has unveiled the new boots which Sergio Kun Aguero will wear in Thursday’s Manchester derby. Aguero will be looking to add to his 30 goals for the season when Jose’s side visit the Etihad on thursday and he’ll be taking to the turf in a fresh pair of cleats after Puma designed the Argentine some new boots especially for the encounter. The bespoke evoSPEED boots were personally delivered to the City Striker in a derby-inspired Nissan GT-R. Yianni Charalambous, owner and founder of car customising company Yiannimize carried out the delivery. Culled from Mirror

Nigeria’s sole continental football competitions campaigners Rivers United today arrived the country from Rwanda where they booked a spot into the group stage of the ongoing CAF confederations cup after playing out a goalless draw with Rayon Sports in Kigali to qualify on a two nil  aggregate. Head coach of the team Stanley Eguma revealed to www.brila.net that the experience they had in Sudan inspired the team to do well against a well organized Rayon Sport team despite playing with 10 players for the best part of the game. An excited Eguma says he’s confident the team [Rivers United] will…

Don’t let his pristine looks fool you , but Wilfred Ndidi is actually and indeed a man that lives his life according to the teachings of the good book; carrying no baggage from the past, and leaving his forehead wrinkle-free.

Former Director-General of the defunct National Sports Commission, Gbenga Elegbeleye has sounded a wake up call to the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation.

Kano Pillars media officer Idris Malikawa has confirmed the resignation of coach Kadiri Ikhana from the Kano based side on medical ground. Ikhana’s resignation was recieved by the club Sunday evening after Pillars’ 3-1 defeat to Rangers in Enugu although he wasn’t on the bench for the encounter. Malikawa said the club will make a decision on the vacant position of head coach before the week runs out. The board in a release signed by its media officer, Malikawa Idris Rilwanu said though they got the information through press interview granted the media late Sunday night, but  thanked the former…

Vice President of the Nigeria Basketball Federation Mukhtar Khaled ‘Malone’ has stated that Nigeria’s Afrobasket title defence will not be threatened by Angola been named new host of the 2017 Afrobasket championship following the withdrawal of the Republic of Congo based on logistics. Malone in a chat with Brila.net said that Nigeria is good enough to raise two championship winning side but that the success will depend on the kind of preparation which goes back to funding which isn’t forthcoming from the Government and this has been a huge problem in the area of modalities on how to go about…

President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation Daniel Igali has stated that it is still a dicey situation for Nigerian wrestlers with three days to the commencement of the African wrestling championship which starts this week in Marakech Morocco. Igali in a chat with Brila.net revealed that the National Sports commission only approved 7.2 million naira from the 28 million naira budget submitted but that the Bayelsa state Government have promised to sponsor about 12 wrestlers meaning 16 of the eligible wrestlers could be what Nigeria will travel with for the Africa wrestling championship which serve as qualifiers for the World…