Category: SportsThe 2013 UEFA Champions League final will mean different things to different Nigerians as MasterCard, the official sponsor of UEFA Champions League, has elaborate plans to celebrate the final of Europe’s most lucrative club football competition. In a show of appreciation to Nigerian card holders whose passion for football is very high, MasterCard, the technology [...]
The four Ghanaian members of the Glo Soccer Academy distinguished themselves on Sunday when two of the boys scored four goals in a friendly match between the football Academy of Dubai Sports City and a youth team from another academy in Dubai, Baniyas Real Madrid. The Ghanaian boys who missed the training trip to Manchester [...]
Lagos — The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday said that Nigeria remains the only country in Africa that had qualified to represent the continent in all major championships since 2012. Emeka Inyama, the Chairman, NFF Media and Publicity Committee, made the confirmation in a statement in Abuja, which was made available in Lagos. The [...]
The Chairman of Rivers Para-Soccer Association, Manasseh Brown, said on Tuesday that lack of funds had continued to stifle the development of para-soccer development in the country. Ms. Brown, who won the recent Para-Soccer South-South Zonal National Sports Federations election, made the remark in an interview in Benin, the Edo State capital. She complained that [...]
by Andrew Randa Nigeria beach soccer national team, the Supersand Eagles have arrived Morocco, ahead of the African qualifiers for the Beach Soccer World Cup to held in Tahiti in September. The 12-man squad arrived Morocco at about noon on Sunday and immediately checked into their hotel as they seek to start preparations to earn [...]
PEPSI has congratulated Super Eagles’ Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi for winning the UEFA Europa Cup with their English Club, Chelsea. Chelsea beat Benfica of Portugal 2-1 in the final play at Amsterdam Arena last Wednesday. Head of Marketing, Seven-up Bottling Company Plc, Lagos, Norden Thurston, said Pepsi is happy that Moses, a soccer [...]
Obafemi Martins is the fifth highest paid player in Major League Soccer for the 2013 season, according to a players’ union release. He is also the highest ever paid player for Seattle Sounders with an annual basic salary of $1.6million. Martins beat Freddie Ljungberg record of $1.3million at Seattle Sounders as highest paid player ever [...]
With a good football match, especially one involving the Chelsea Football Club, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, is refreshed. A major player in the politics of Lagos, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, has come of age in the business of politics. Representing Lagos West Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Solomon boasts experience [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation has concluded all arrangements for a seven-day FIFA Beach Soccer and Refereeing Course that will start in Abuja on Friday. The course is the latest in a long list of quality coaching, refereeing and administrative courses that have been spurred, initiated, organized and superintended by the NFF since the advent of [...]
The present NFF administration led by Alhaji Aminu Maigari has achieved so much within the past 16 months to deserve resounding applause from Nigerians, so says Chief Emeka Inyama, Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee. Inyama, a foremost football journalist and publisher of note, took a critical look at the statistics of all [...]
Photo: siphotos.tumblr.com Funding has been a major setback to the development of the para-soccer in Nigeria. The Chairman of Rivers Para-Soccer Association, Manasseh Brown, said on Tuesday that lack of funds had continued to stifle the development of para-soccer development in the country. Ms. Brown, who won the recent Para-Soccer South-South Zonal National Sports Federations [...]
Isiaka Olawale, Abdul Isah, Bartholomew Ibenegbu have been named among the 18 invitees for the African Beach Soccer Championship by Head Coach, Audu Adamu. The list made available by Nigeria Football Federation’s Media Officer, Ademola Olajire also includes stars like Ogbonnaya Okemiri and Victor Tale while Danladi Isah, Jerome Parara and Adufu Abutu are some [...]
May 2 (Reuters) – Everton striker Victor Anichebe has asked Nigeria not to consider him for next month’s Confederation Cup in Brazil because he wants to rest after the rigours of the English season. Anichebe told the BBC in an interview he has put his international career on hold “so he can manage his body [...]
The one week training programme for Beach Soccer coaches and referees was concluded on Thursday with participants saying they had learnt something new. The training which commenced last week Friday was the first in Nigeria and had sixty participants in attendant. Speaking to Trust Sport after the closing ceremony, Head Coach of Nigeria Beach Soccer [...]
Mr. Ladipo said he has been the sole financier of the club since inception. The President General, Nigeria Football Supporters Club, Rauf Ladipo, said he is now working towards getting a successor who will take over the leadership mantle of the association as he prepares to retire. Mr. Ladipo, who has headed the club for [...]
Joao Havelange was FIFA President from 1974-1998. A former FIFA President, Joao Havelange ,resigned as honorary president of soccer’s governing body in a World Cup bribery case that has tarnished the organisation’s image for more than a decade. FIFA ethics court judge, Joachim Eckert, said in a ruling published on Tuesday by FIFA that the [...]
Mexican national team coach Jose Manuel “Chepo” De La Torre and Texans quarterback Matt Schaub exchanged jerseys Monday afternoon at Reliant Stadium after a press conference to announce El Tri’s May 31 match against Nigeria at Reliant Stadium. De La Torre, who wore No. 8 during his career, says Mexico will use the Nigeria friendly [...]
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Nigeria international and former Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike has been acquitted in Turkey’s match-fixing scandal. Emenike was among dozens of people — including Fenerbahce officials — who were charged with match-fixing in 2011. Prosecutors had claimed that Emenike, who played for Karabuk at the time, was promised [...]
Copyright : StarAfrica Ivory Coast are the 2013 African U-17 Champions. They achieved the rare feat for the first time in their history after a 5-4 penalties win over Nigeria in the final in Marrakech. The Baby Elephants secured the trophy after the match had ended 1-1 in normal time. Nigeria took the lead when [...]
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