Author: Brila

The Nigeria Women Premier League (NWPL) takes centre stage at the midweek with some exciting match up across seven centres. The first game of the week five round of matches will see Bayelsa Queens square up against Moses Adikwu’s Heartland Queens at the Nembe City Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Tarila Okorowanta’s wards will no doubt be aware of the importance of the game as a defeat at home will be a huge setback to their Super Four bid. Heartland, however, will like to pick maximum points and move up in the Group A log. The action continues at the Lafia…

Former scribe of the then Nigeria Football Association (now NFF) Austin Mgbolu has expressed strong concern about the continuous snub of Super Eagles players from first team duties  in their respective clubs. Mgbolu in a chat with www.brila.net said the development should be a cause of concern to the national team handlers because of the crucial games coming up in a few months from now. “It’s really a source of concern to some of us knowing fully well that when your regulars are not been fielded in their club sides, it shows clearly that either they are not in shape…

Anthony Joshua fights Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and looks to add the WBA heavyweight title to his IBF belt. By contrast, the Ukrainian aims to become a three-time world heavyweight champion in his first return to the ring since losing his crown to Tyson Fury in November 2015. Here, we take a statistical look at their career numbers up until this point. Anthony Joshua 18 – Joshua has had only 18 professional fights, yet is the favourite to beat one of the finest heavyweight champions in history. 18 – he has stopped all 18 of his professional…

Rwandan clubside Rayon sports have suspended coach Masudi Djuma just three days after been knocked out of the CAF Confederation cup by Nigerian Professional Football League side Rivers utd ending their hopes of making it to the group stage of the continent’s second tier club competition. Despite being four matches away from leading the Peace cup holders to their first league title since 2013, the former Rayon Sports skipper Masudi has been given a-one week suspension due to what has been described as an unprofessional conduct by club secretary general Olivier Gakwaya. The Burundian tactician is expected to return to…

Chairman of the League Management Company of Nigeria LMC Mallam Shehu Dikko has revealed the sanction module employed by the league organisers to clamp down on clubs and venues where there are incidents of crowd violence. Dikko told www.brila.net that the sanction module has been reviewed and now targeted at clamping down on irate supporters especially after it must have been established that the clubs fulfill their obligation in having the required security measures in place at such venues. He explained that when the requirement to start a game is met, the only thing that can be done is to…

Abedi Ayew Pele, Three-time African footballer of the year believes that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) handed former Coach Akwesi Appiah the job because they have confidence in him hence called on all and sundry to support Kwesi Appiah to deliver. “I wish him well. The people who appointed him believes he can do the job that’s why they appointed him. All we can do now is to back him to succeed”. Abedi Pele said. Kwesi Appiah arrived in Ghana last Thursday to commence his second stint with the Black Stars and the “Maestro” has called on Ghanaians to support…

The Liverpool stars of the present and legends of the past were all out in force to pay tribute to one of the club’s most popular players, Lucas Leiva who is celebrating ten years with the Reds. Lucas has enjoyed a long career at Liverpool having joined from his homeland team Gremio for a fee around £5million in 2007. The likes of Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Jurgen Klopp were all pictured entering the venue at Anfield for a carnival-themed party. Stars took to snapchat and Instagram to give fans an insight into the festivities, with Roberto Firmino, Philippe Coutinho and…

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte took a swipe at Manchester United and Manchester City’s transfer spending, saying money does not guarantee success. Manchester United bought Paul Pogba for a world record fee of £89m while City made away with huge sign on fees on players such as £50m defender John Stones in the summer. Conte was keen to point out the financial power spending of City and United, who are 11 and 12 points behind his side respectively as his team sits on top of the log. “This season it’s very important to understand that it’s not always about who spends…

Chairman of the three man committee set up to reposition the Ondo State Football Agency Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye has stated that the decision to hire former national team coaches Austin Eguavoen and Ike Shorunmu as coach and goalkeeper trainer was borne out of the need to help stabilise the fortunes of the Akure bases club after a slow start to the ongoing season. Elegbeleye stressed in a chat with www.brila.net that the coaches have been handed the mandate of ensuring that the club do not get relegated and also ensure they keep the team in the top half of the…

Football fans in the smiling city of Akure, will troop out to the Ondo state football agency office, at football village, Oda Road at about 11am on Tuesday morning, to witness the unveiling of two of the sports icons, Augustine Eguaveon and Ike Shorunmu as coaches of their beloved Sunshine stars. The mandate to keep Sunshine stars in the NPFL was only recently handed over to honourable Gbenga Elegbeleye, a former vice chairman of Sunshine stars football club, a former deputy chairman of the house committee on sports and a former director general of the National sports commission who alongside…