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Virgil van Dijk has won the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year, an award handed out at the UEFA Champions League draw, beating competition from nominations Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to the award.
The draw for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League group stage was made on Thursday, with holders Liverpool set to face Napoli, Salzburg and Genk in Group E.
Another feather was added to the already decorated cap of the Nigeria Basketball Federation and the D’tigress in the early hours of Thursday in China.
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has called up PAOK of Greece Midfielder Anderson Esiti as a replacement for injured Wilfred Ndidi ahead Ukraine friendly encounter.
All may not be well for former Super Eagles captain and Trabzonspor midfielder, Mikel John Obi following the decision of the mother of his daughters Olga Dyachenko to dump him, www.brila.net can confirm.
Technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Sunday Adeleye has stated that the Nigerian track and field athletes are still focussed on more medals for Nigeria despite having posted a good enough outing so far.
Coach of Nigeria’s women national team Christopher Danjuma has stated that the Nigeria U20 women national team will handle the expectation of delivering against Cameroon well ahead of today’s Gold medal match between both side.
Nigeria men national table tennis team player Jide Omotayo has stated that he is very happy to have secured a place in the last four of his first All Africa games outing causing an upset in the process and now wants a place in the final.
Nigeria Men’s table tennis national team player Segun Toriola has stated that he earnestly hopes Nigeria and Africa number one table tennis player Quadri Aruna wins the men’s Singles semi final tie against Egypt’s Omar Assar so as to help set up an all Nigerian final in the final of the men’s Singles table tennis event at the Africa games.
Team Nigeria are not giving up on emerging overall winner of the ongoing 12th All Africa Games as more medals are being won.