Author: Brila

The 2018/2019 season of the Nigeria Women Premier League(NPWL) is set to kick-off Wednesday, 24th of July 2019, with matches to be played across various parts of the country. Matchday one of the NWPLwill feature Confluence Queens Football Club doing battle against Ibom Angels Football Club. According to the organizers of the league, the league competition will be played as an abridged version. As such, there will be four groups divided to accommodate four clubs each. The leaders of each group will then qualify for the Super Four tournament for which the eventual league winner will be announced. The group…

Former Super Eagles defender Sam Sodje has frowned on the decision by the President of the NFF, Amaju Pinnick to send Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr to Germany on a refresher course.

The goalkeeper trainer in the Nigeria National team, Alloy Agu has confirmed that there is an ongoing search for shot-stoppers that can solidify the position for the Super Eagles.

Former assistant coach of Nigeria’s D’Tigers Mohammed Abdulrahman has called on the attention of the Nigeria Basketball Federation to note and see the cause of Nigeria’s failure at the ongoing FIBA Afrocan championship in Bamako Mali. This is became necessary following the team’s 84 – 80 loss to Algeria yesterday in the round of 16 to cap a poor run which has seen them lose three games on the bounce. Abdulrahman speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the team’s failure is not unconnected to the lack of league action one area the NBBF in communication with FIBA has failed…

Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer Alloy Agu has stated that goalkeepers of the national team will continue to get reminders on how to ensure they get better handling of free kicks situations when they arrive in the future. Nigeria’s AFCON 2019 quest was truncated by a late free kick from Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez at the recently concluded AFCON in Egypt. Agu speaking on preventing a reoccurrence of such in the future in a chat gathered by www.brila.net says this will be consciously brought to the goalkeepers awareness on how best to take charge of free kicks situations whenever it arises in…

Assistant coach of Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets Nduka Ugbade has stated that he wants the Nigeria Football Federation to help ensure that the Nigeria U17 gets well motivated and well prepared ahead of the team’s outing at the 2019 FIFA U17 world cup which starts three months time in Brazil. Ugbade speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said now that the draws and pathway to the final have been known, the only thing left is to get the all clear and camping arrangements for the Eaglets sorted so as to resume camping as early as possible. “Key is preparation and very good…

Technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Sunday Adeleye has stated that he expects improvement from the athletes now that camping for the All Africa games is in full swing and concentration level now higher ahead of the fast approaching All Africa games next month in Morocco.  Adeleye speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said camping offers the athletes fresh opportunities to compete more despite having been seen during the All Africa games camping trials last month and expects the athletes to show their competitive edge with more trainings for all athletes in camp. “So far so good it’s been…

Nélson Cabral Semedo was born on the 16th day of November 1993 to his parents in Lisbon, Portugal.

Akwa Starlets produced a fine display in their NNL Promotion Playoffs match against Shooting Stars of Akure.

Enyimba FC defender Stanley Okorom has stated that the People’s Elephant won’t have any problem navigating their way through the opening rounds of the CAF champions league after been drawn against Burkina Faso side Rahimo FC in the first round of the competition.  Okorom speaking in a chat with www.brila.netsaid Enyimba has shown over time how strong they are when it comes to playing the opening rounds stating clearly that  competition for Enyimba starts from the group stage and not the opening rounds where they have so far distinguished themselves severally. “Any time the talk of these CAF champions league…