Author: Brila

Nigeria’s U-21 team lost their classification match against Japan 26-16 on Wednesday at the 2019 World Junior Men’s IHF Handball Championship in Spain.

General secretary of the Handball Federation of Nigeria and leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the International handball Federation U20 world cup in Spain Haruna Maigidansanma has hailed the Nigeria U20 team for putting in a spirited effort despite the team’s inability to make it out of the group stage at the tournament. Maigidansanma speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the players have given a good fight but unfortunately their efforts wasn’t good enough while stating that the Federation will continue to work well with more youth players and hopefully get a better and stronger U20 team in the nearest…

Chairperson of the Nigeria Women Football League organisers of the Nigeria women Premier league Aisha Falode has called for more support for the women football league in Nigeria following the commencement of the new season which kicked off yesterday across various centers in the federation. Falode speaking on the women league enjoin more fans to throng the venues even more than previous seasons and also urged referees to uphold fairness in their officiating in the new women football league season while calling for strategic partnerships with the private sector in different categories to latch on the growing women league brand…

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer Ike Shorunmu has called on coach of Nigeria’s senior national team Gernot Rohr to keep his selection of players for national team duty open enough for players to see that no one has a guaranteed role in the team to build the team’s competitive edge. Shorunmu speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said opening the selection will do more good for the team and help ensure that players have a mind with focus and determination to continually want to convince the coach on why they should be handed a role and not just keeping a…

Coach of Nigeria’s home based national basketball team Ogoh Odaudu has rued Nigeria’s 84-80 defeat to Algeria at the ongoing FIBA Afrocan tournament in Mali which ended Nigeria’s nightmarish outing in a tournament which the team lost all three games played.  Odaudu speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the D’Tigers outing was an unfortunate one which boils down to lack of competitive games for the players before the championship. He said the team will have to go back to the drawing board and above all good to have a tournament like this which offers a great platform for home based…

African cadet champion, Taiwo Mati is the surprise inclusion in Team Nigeria for the 2019 ITTF Africa Cup serves off on August 3 to 5 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.

Nigeria Super Falcons forward Ini Umotong was on the scoresheet as Brighton won Crystal Palace in their preseason fixture.

Former Super Eagles star forward Odion Ighalo will be on the sidelines for eight weeks due to a hamstring injury, www.brila.net understands that.

The National Women Football League (NWPL) has thanked Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki for lifting the state’s women football team, Edo Queens, who will begin their campaign in the 2018/2019 season today in Lagos.

A member of the media team of Benin Football Federation, Mr. Bienvenue Adjouma while giving his thoughts on the chances of Benin qualifying for the 2021 AFCON tournament in an exclusive chat with Brila.net was confident that the Squirrels will get wins over Lesotho and Sierra Leone.