Author: Seyi Alao
Coach Abubakar Bala has hinted his team thrashing in the hand of MFM was expected and believed they are on the right track to be successful in Nigeria professional football league next season.
Newly appointed Go Round FC technical Adviser Willie Udube has thanked the management of the club for giving him the opportunity to contribute his quota to the development of the team.
Flying Eagles of Nigeria has been drawn in Group B of WAFU Under 20 championship alongside Ghana, the Niger Republic and the Benin Republic billed for Lome, Togo from 6th – 16th December.
MFM FC Stars Chukwuka Onuwa and Stanley Okorom has emerged as transfer target for former Nigeria professional football league champions Enyimba international of Aba. Onuwa and Okorom has attracted suitors having proved they are capable of making any team in the country a formidable side with quality performances for MFM in recent time. MFM Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu confirmed months back that the pin-sized Onuwa is interested in quitting the Lagos based team for financial reasons but it remained to be seen if the interest of the People’s Elephants will materialised. Okorom was on target for MFM yesterday in their…
Michael Uchebo has been linked with a potential return to Nigeria professional football league side Enugu Rangers, nine years after quitting the club for VVV Venlo in Dutch league . Uchebo who has represented Nigeria at the U20 and U23 level is believed to have reach agreement for personal terms with the Aiteo Cup winners , and a deal could signed and announced as in coming days. The 28-year old forward has struggled to keep his career on the right track since moving to Europe with the recent problem he had withPortuguese side Boavista, where he was frozen out of the…
Super Eagles Media Officer, Toyin Ibitoye, Says the trio of Alex Iwobi, Leon Balogun and William Troost-Ekong could not train with team yesterday as a result of traveling congestion and not fitness problem. The three players were pictured at the British airport before arriving in Nigeria to join up with Super Eagles camp in Asaba as the teamstep up preparations for the important 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa this Saturday. However, the players did not train with the team on Tuesday whichfuel speculation that they maybe nursing injury, but Ibitoye dismissed such claims. “The coach excused…
Super Eagles Stoke City’s midfielder Ogenekaro Etebo has assured Nigerians that team will return from with the 2019 AFCON qualification ticket in the bag. Only France-based Samuel Kalu has yet to touch down in Asaba camp of the Super Eagles but his teammates are not leaving any stone unturned as they intensified their preparation for an important AFCON qualifier game against the Bafana Bafana. Etebo who was among the early arrival to the camp said the team’s quest to return to the Africa biggest football festival is less complicated with consecutive victories over Seychelles and Libya haven lost the opening game to South…
Egyptian legend Mohamed Aboutrika, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest African midfielders of all time, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. Aboutrika, 40, who has lived since his 2013 soccer retirement in exile in Qatar, where he works as a sports analyst for the beIN sports network, was found guilty of tax evasion. According to Associated Press, the verdict, handed down on Monday by the Cairo misdemeanour court, was delivered in absentia. Under the law, the verdict can be appealed and if Aboutrika returns to Egypt, but he would have to stand a new…
Former Kano Pillars first choice goal-keeper Yusuf Muhammed has vowed to prove his worth to Kwara United fans after joining the club in this current transfer window. The former Nigeria Under 23 goal tender ended his eight years association with the 2018 Aiteo Cup finalist to team up with the Afonja Warriors after losing his place in the starting line up under former coach Ibrahim Musa. “What happened was just about the style of coach. He has his ownstyle and picked who he likes. I want to concentrate on my new cluband I am going to do everything to be…
Super Falcons continue their preparation towards the AWCON in Ghana with a 4-0 victory over Ivorian Women league champions Eleven Sisters de Gagnoa in exhibition game played on Monday. The Thomas Dennerby side who lost to Dominion Hotspur and Asec Mimosa’s U16 male side in their two previous friendly games, took first half lead with goals from Asisat Oshoala, Desire Oparanozie and Franciscan Ordega. The reigning African champions added the fourth in the second half as the Ivorians defended for their life to prevent total whitewash. Nigeria are grouped alongside familiar foes Equatorial Guinea,South Africa and Zambia in Group…
