Saturday 14 March 2015

Enyeama savours NFF plans for his 100th cap

 Vincent Enyeama is delighted at the plans of the Nigeria Football Federation to honour him on the occasion of his hundredth senior cap for Nigeria.


The Lille shot stopper will notch his century when Nigeria takes on Bolivia in an international friendly at the Akwa Ibom Stadium on Thursday, March 26.

Friday 13 March 2015

Gambo Undergoes Surgery To Remove Bullet

Kano Pillars star striker Gambo Mohammed has undergone surgery to remove bullets lodged in his body after his club’s bus was attacked last week by robbers.

Super Eagles Step-up In Latest FIFA Rankings

The gradual upward movement of the Super Eagles on the monthly FIFA rankings continued on Thursday as the Nigerian national team moved a step to the 41st spot in the March edition released by the world football governing body.

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Stoke defender preaches Moses Sermon


Stoke City defender Phil Bardsley insists he believes Victor Moses is enjoying his football again at the Britannia Stadium after being deemed surplus at Chelsea.
Bardsley who is confident of clinching the club's pre-season aim of a top-10 status at the end of the season prayed a deal could be struck between both teams for the 24 year old who is in the running for the player of the month award.

Tuesday 10 March 2015

IMPRESSIVE: Martins makes MLS team of the week

 Former Super Eagles striker Obafemi Martins has been named in the MLS team of the week.
Seattle Sounders walloped New England Revolution 3 nil with the Nigerian forward scoring once and assisting another.
It wasn’t just the former Inter Milan and Newcastle United man that had a cool day at work as his club teammates, Clint Dempsey and Tyrone Mears were also shortlisted.

Moses nominated for Stoke Player Of The Season Award

Nigerian midfielder Victor Moses has been named in an
eight-man shortlist of players for the Stoke City Player of
the Season award according to Stoke Sentinel.

Moses who has scored three goals thus far and providing
three assists this season joins such players like Bojan
Krkic, Peter Crouch, Steven Nzonzi, Ryan Shawcross on
the shortlist.

Other candidates for the award include Jonathan Walters
and Glen Whelan.
With ten 10 games to go, Steven Nzonzi leads the polls
with 28.8% while the duo of Walters and Whelan have
22.4% and 18.7% respectively.

The Chelsea loanee is fourth with 9.8% of the votes while
injured Bojan earned 9.6% of the votes for his efforts.
The former Wigan and Crystal Palace winger has created
32 chances more than any Stoke City player this season
and has also completed 299 passes this season with a
pass accuracy of 81%, of which 60% were forward passes.
Stoke are currently eighth on the log table.

Keshi mute over Eagles job- NFF

Nigeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick has
revealed that they will not wait forever for Stephen Keshi
to accept their contract offer to continue as Super Eagles
coach.

Monday 9 March 2015

2014/2015 NPFL season begins with goal feast



Finally, the long awaited Glo Nigeria professional football league kicked off in centers across the country. Apart from the postponed Heartland Kano Pillars game, other fixtures went on as planned. Below are the complete result of the games played: 

AYC 2015: Flying Eagles off to a flying start



Flying Eagles on Sunday thumped hosts Senegal 3-1 in its opening Africa Youth Championship
(AYC) played at the Stade Léopold
Sédar Senghor, Dakar on Sunday.