Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of this season the club announced on Wednesday. Alex Ferguson’s 13th Premier League title as manager of Manchester United will be his last. Early on Wednesday, Manchester United, one of the world’s most successful soccer teams, announced that its leader of nearly 27 years would be retiring at the end of this season.
‘The decision to retire is one that I have thought a great deal about and one that I have not taken lightly,” said Ferguson, 71, in a…
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Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike will miss June’s 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the Fifa Confederations Cup due to a knee injury. The implication is that the attacker who made the headlines with the 2013 Africa Cup of Nation in South Africa will miss Nigeria’s hectic June schedule that will see the Eagles play two 2014 World Cup qualifiers as well as feature at the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil. The Spartak Moscow striker, who was sidelined for over eight weeks by a hamstring injury he suffered at the Nations Cup finals in February, told MTNFootball.com he…
The Baby Elephants of Cote d’ Ivoire won their first African U-17 title after a 5-4 penalty shoot victory over The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria in the final of CAF U-17 played in Morocco on Saturday. Nigeria’s dreams for a third CAF U-17 championship title came crashing in Morocco, as the golden eaglets fell 5-4 on penalties to rivals Cote d’Ivoire in the final. Coming on the back of their comfortable win over Tunisia in the semi-final, the Golden Eaglets took the lead through Prince Omego in the…
Nigeria head into Saturday’s 2013 African U-17 Championship final against Ivory Coast seeking to avenge their defeat by the Baby Elephants in the group stage of the competition and to win the 10th edition of the competition in Morocco for record third time.
The Golden Eaglets won the championship in Seychelles in 2001 and in Togo in 2007. They will make history as the first team to lift the trophy thrice.
Ivory Coast’s best effort in the tournament is a third-place finish at the 2005 edition in Gambia.
Nigeria, who defeated bitter rivals Ghana…
Nigeria Soccer: Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets have qualified for the final match of the 2013 Africa U-17 Championships after cruising to a 4-2 win over their Tunisian counterparts.
The Eaglets were quick to scoring as Kelechi Iheanacho put Nigeria in the lead with just two minutes into the game. And they quickly doubled the lead ten minutes later when Musa Yahaya scored. Isaac Success scored the third goal for Nigeria.
Tunisia pulled one back following poor defending from the Eaglets when Mohamed Larbi scored in the 25th…
Chief Segun Odegbami popularly known as the “Mathematical”, an ex-international football player, former super eagles captain, 1 goal ambassador, Ambassador for sports would on the 2nd of May, 2013 be launching his book titled ” Me, Football and More“. The event has been scheduled to take a place in 15 states cut across Nigeria starting from Lagos on the 2nd of May at the anchor event place, Ikeja, Lagos. Chief Segun Odegbami who has being a columnist for various national and international papers for more than 2 decades would be using…
NIGERIA’S Golden Eaglets qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup yesterday after thrashing of Congo 7-0 in their last group game of the African championships. Under the qualification rules, the four teams that make it to the semi-finals of the tournament get to represent Africa at the World Cup. Having beaten Ghana 6-1 in their opening game, the Golden Eaglets join Tunisia, Ivory Coast and hosts Morocco as Africa’s four representatives at the World Cup due to take place in the United Arab Emirates in October. The Golden…
Nigeria, Few days after he received the cars that were promised him by Mike Adenuga of Globacom, Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi will be losing a significant amount of his salary due to a new structure being promoted by the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. After a meeting of the Technical Committee of the NFF in Abuja, it was decided that all match bonuses as well as the salaries of the coaches, including Keshi should be cut down. When the General Secretary of the NFF, Mr. Musa Amadu, was asked…
New FIFA Ranking: The Super Eagles of Nigeria retained their fourth position in Africa, Nigeria’s Super Eagles dropped to 31 Spot in the world ranking. The draw against Kenya in Calabar caused Nigeria the deficit as the Super Eagles’ 775 points, as at previous ranking was reduced by 18 points (757 Points at present.) Ivory Coast is the highest- placed African side, in 12th, followed by Ghana, 22 and Mali, 26. Both Ghana and Mali had dropped by two places each from their previous rankings. Croatia moved up five places after the recent…
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