Author: Brila

France coach Corinne Diacre has revealed her squad for the women’s World Cup held on home soil this summer, omitting the French league’s top scorer Marie-Antoinette Katoto, www.brila.net reports. 

Technical Director of the Athletes Federation of Nigeria Sunday Adeleye has urged the leadership of the Federation and the Nigeria Government to ensure Sprint star Divine Oduduru remains a Nigerian Athlete.

Former Super Eagles defender and Coach Austin Eguavoen has lauded the initiative of the Nigeria Football Federation over the appointment of former Eagles stars as Scouts.

Former coach of Nigeria’s senior national basketball team and present coach of Angola  Williams Voigt has backed Nigeria’s D’Tigers as well as Angola to lead Africa’s meaningful challenge at the fast approaching FIBA world cup this August in China. 

National Table Tennis coach Nosir Bello has stated that Nigeria’s world junior table tennis championship bound team that conquered Africa last month in Ghana is the next generation to take over from Segun Toriola, Funke Oshonaike and others and has backed the players in the team to continue to improve.

Head Coach of the Super Falcons, Thomas Dennerby has assured that the African champions will not suffer any mental block when confronting European opposition at the FIFA World Cup finals in France.

The Zimbabwe senior men national team are poised to create the first upset at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt when they take on the host nation in the opening game of the competition on June 21, 2019, at the Cairo International Stadium.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has declared that the proposed NFF Foundation would put an end to the sad tales of the sufferings former Nigerian players go through after active football while shedding more light on how the foundation would operate and the motive behind setting it up.

Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg will not be at the World Cup this summer after she pulled out of Norway’s squad for the tournament in France. The Grasshoppers will be without the Ballon d’Or winner when they come up against the African Champions on June 8. The Lyon striker’s absence for the tournament in France this summer comes as great relief to the Falcons who are housed in the same group as the Norwegians, South Korea and hosts France in Group A. It will be recalled that the Norwegian has refused to play for the national side since 2017. Hegerberg…

Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick has given words of assurance on getting top notch medical care for ailing former Green Eagles’ captain, Christian Chukwu. Speaking to www.brila.net, Pinnick served updates on moves being made to fly Chukwu to London for further medical treatment noting that everything had been done to get him in a very stable condition and he would be leaving for the UK next weekend. “We are working hard on Christian Chukwu’s situation and I’m very much in touch with the hospital and Peter Thomas of the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos so we are seriously…