Author: Brila

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…

Nigeria female beach volleyball team beat Mauritius 2-0 (21-17, 21-12) to finish fifth place at the inaugural Africa Beach Games in Cape Verde. The Nigerian team lost to Kenya in the Women’s elimination 1-8 by 2-0 (21-13, 21-15). The head coach of the team, Francis Imoudu praised the duo of Isa Laju and Tochukwu Nnoruga for their resilience at the first ever Africa Beach Games. He said the girls gave their best against Kenya in the build up to the Semifinals but lost due to reasons beyond him. Imoudu said the standard of Beach Volleyball in Africa is improving drastically.…

The Nigeria Football Federation has flatly denied owing players and officials of the senior women national team, Super Falcons any money, in the wake of reports earlier on Sunday that the Falcons were refusing to leave their hotel at the World Cup in France over pay dispute with the Federation. “We have paid the players and officials the entitlements due them for the tournament and other outstanding bonuses and allowances were settled before the team arrived at the World Cup finals,” Shehu Dikko, NFF 2nd Vice President, told thenff.com. The Federation went further to clarify in detail as follows: The…

FC Union Berlin’s Bundesliga squad continues to take shape over the summer and they have  added Bundesliga experienced forward line in the shape of 28-year-old Anthony Ujah.  The Nigerian has enjoyed a hugely-successful career across the globe. He started with Abuja FC and Warri Wolves in his homeland before signing for Lillestrom in Norway. One year later, he joined Bundesliga club Mainz before helping 1. FC Köln back into the Bundesliga between 2012 and 2015. Ujah scored a further 11 goals for Werder Bremen in the season prior to his move to Liaoning in the Chinese Super League.…

Super Eagles Head Coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team struggled to impose their style of play on Burundi during the team’s group opener in Alexandria. Nigeria dominated possession in the early stages but the Burundians were the ones with the very clear chances. However, Ahmed Musa’s introduction for captain Mikel Obi quickened Nigeria’s pace and race towards goal. Nothing was delivered until Ighalo converted a clever pass by Ola Aina to put the Itamba to the sword. “They were well organized, difficult to break down, unbeaten in the qualifiers in a group that had Gabon and Mali and…

Enyimba number and Super Eagles goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai has urged the Eagles not to underrate any team in their AFCON group B.