Author: Brila

Former Super Eagles goalkeeper trainer Ike Shorunmo has stated that the selection of players for the Super Eagles AFCON matches should continuously be made competitive to make players thirst to play and make a difference at the ongoing Africa cup of nations Egypt. 

Super Eagles Goalkeeper Coach Alloy Agu has stated that Daniel Akpeyi Kept Nigeria in the game against Burundi before Ighalo netted the goal that gave the Eagles the needed three points in the opening match of the AFCON competition in Egypt.

Former Super Eagles player, Mutiu Adepoju has urged Nigerian football fans to leave the team selection decisions at the ongoing African Cup of Nations in Egypt to technical adviser Gernot Rohr.

Former Super Falcons coach Ismaila Mabo has urged the Nigeria Football Federation to dump Swedish Coach Thomas Dennerby for local coaches who have the capacity and the necessary coaching badges.

Flying Eagles defender Valentine Ozornwafor has arrived Turkey and set to complete a transfer deal to Turkey League champions Galatasaray. In a Whatsapp chat with www.brila.net’s Mo Saliu,  Ozornwafor confirmed that he is now in Turkey to finalize his transfer from Enyimba to the Turkish Super Lig giants. Galatasaray plans to include the youngster in their pre-season summer training camp and to loan him out in order to gain regular, first-team experience. More to follow…

Kano Pillars coach Ibrahim Musa has expressed his desperacy at winning the AITEO Cup after losing out on the NPFL title race to Enyimba in the recently concluded Super Six tournament.

NFF Technical director Bitrus Bewerang has urged the Super Eagles to up the stake ahead of the team’s next AFCON tie against the Syli national of Guinea following the team’s 1-0 opening win against debutant Burundi over the course of the weekend.

Former coach of Nigeria’s women national team Eucharia Uche has called for an overhauling of the Super Falcons team in favour of a much younger set of players not because the old legs are not good enough but because the younger legs are hungrier to play and are able to give more. 

Coach of Nigeria’s women national team Thomas Dennerby has stated that there are obvious signs of improvement by the Nigeria women national team despite been knocked out by their German counterpart 3-0 over the course of the weekend in the round of 16 at the ongoing FIFA women’s world cup in France.

Kano Pillars basketball player Abdul Yahaya has stated that Nigeria basketball league players are happy with the return of the 2019 basketball league season after having been out for a long time.  An excited Yahaya speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said basketball league players have mostly been out of jobs for so long with a short hurriedly organised one week window organised last season just to pick continental representative unlike now that they have a more longer season to look forward to. He added that this will gladden the heart of many basketball players in Nigeria. “I’m very happy…