Nigeria Set To Face Venezuela
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face Venezuela in an international friendly in November. The clash against La Vinotinto is expected to form part of the Eagles’ preparations for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Spokesma...
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Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face Venezuela in an international friendly in November. The clash against La Vinotinto is expected to form part of the Eagles’ preparations for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. Spokesma...
Screening of prospective participants for West Africa’s biggest soccer reality television show, the Glo Soccer Academy, will begin October 8, 2012 in Kumasi. Glo said all applicants in Kumasi and environs would be screened at the Paa Joe Stadium,...
It was good and the not too good news on Monday morning when the national team; Super Eagles resumed training for the October 13 duel against the Lone Star of Liberia in Calabar. As expected all the players invited save for the Sunshine Stars duo of Iz...
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has again insisted that there will be no partiality between home-based stars and those based abroad in the selection of the final team that will face Liberia, October 13 in Calabar. “I know that 1...
As the crunch game between the flying Eagles and South Africa’s Amajita, draws nearer, Kenneth Omeruo of Dutch Eredivisie club, ADO Den Haag is expected to lead a slew of foreign-based professionals to camp for the 2013 Africa Youth Championship ...
It has been confirmed that Argentina will be competing in the 2nd Edition of Copa Lagos which takes place on the 14th – 16th of December 2012. The Argentines have huge Beach Soccer pedigree. Along with Brazil, Argentina is one of only two South A...
Lionel Messi has insisted that he cares about winning trophies with Barcelona more than about individual glory. The Argentine attacker is widely seen as one of the best players in the history of the game, but the 25-year-old is more concerned about how...
Nigeria's Sports Minister Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi advocates a new course for Sports Development in Nigeria and admitted that poor preparations marred the country’s chances at the London 2012 Olympics games.
Halimatu Ayinde scored her second brace of Azerbaijan 2012 as Nigeria U-17 women's team finished top of Group A following a 3-0 victory over Colombia, a result that sends the South Americans home from the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Chelsea captain John Terry has been banned for four games and fined £220,000 after being found guilty of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand by the FA. The Blues star announced his retirement from international football with Engl...
Nigeria registered a demoralising 11-0 victory over FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup hosts Azerbiajan, seeing them eliminated, with Chinwendu Ihezuo playing a part in eight of them.
Two hundred and ninety (290) players have been accredited for participation at the 6th edition of the Godswill Akpabio International Scrabble Classics Championship, scheduled for Uyo, Akwa Ibom State next week. The accredited players are for four diffe...
The commencement of the Flag-off of the movement of the Torch of Unity across the 35 states of the federation and Abuja to signify the official count-down to the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos, tagged ‘EKO 2012’ begins today. Accord...
Eagles coach Stephen Keshi is looking at several other players to replace Italy-based Obiora Nwankwo who struggled in Liberia this month. Top team officials informed MTNFootball.com that Nwankwo was slow and sluggish against the Lone Star of Liberia in...
For ten days, the 12-man Lagos table tennis team were exposed to top flight training at the Chinese National Training Centre in Hebei, China and after returning, they admitted that they are at the right frame of mind to dominate the event at the ...