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NFF President Amaju Pinnick has rallied the U-23 National Team ahead of the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations starting in Senegal on Saturday, saying that finishing among the top three should be their sole focus.   Nigeria’s U-23 won Africa’s first –ever Olympics football gold at the Centennial Games in Atlanta, USA 19 years ago with aplomb, and seven years ago, a group led also by Samson Siasia earned silver after losing a final battle to Lionel Messi –inspired Argentina at the majestic Bird’s Nest in Beijing.   However, the Class of 2011 faltered in the African qualifying race, losing to host Morocco and Senegal to crash out in the group phase at the inaugural Africa U-23 Championship. Failure meant the Dream Team was not at the London Olympics the following year.   “Presently, we are on a roll of good results and we are determined that those must continue. It’s been an exciting past few months during which we have won U-17 World Cup, qualified for the U-20 Women’s World Cup and reach

The maiden edition of Oba Abideen Durosinmi Junior Secondary School Cup kicked off yesterday,  Thursday in Ojo Local Council District Areas under Ojo Local Government with some interesting results. The match day 1 of the junior secondary school football event, knock out stage, witnessed 15 goals from three fixtures, Alice Opara College, Ajagbadi crushed Lagos an State Model Junior College 6-0, Community Junior High School comfortably beat Ijedodo Junior Grammar School four nill, the last match of the day was between Aganjuaka Junior Grammar School and Army Cantoment Boys Junior Secondary School ended in a 3-2 win for the latter. Match day two actions will resume on Monday. Osolu Junior High School will take on Awori Junior College, Egan Junior High School will trade tackles with Government Junior High,  the last fixture of the match day will be between ILOGBO Elegba Junior Grammar School and Iba Housing Estate Junior High School. The competition which began on the 19th of November w

By Tosin Adeniji The League Management Company (LMC) has been charged to conduct a background investigation as battle for survival among five teams goes to the wire on the last match day in the Glo Premier League 2014/15 season. According to a source, Abia Warriors are been alleged to have concluded arrangement to favour Sharks FC on Match Day 38 fixture in Umuahia this Sunday. A fan of Abia Warriors,  who gave his name as Ifeanyi Chukwujike hinted Nigeria Sports  Arena that  the two clubs might have agreed to allow result favour the visitors. Chukwujike who is fondly called,  "The Tunder", condemned the decision for a compromised. "I am a strong supporter of Warriors, this is not welcomed at all as such practice will not allow our league to grow, the aggrieved fan said. "Tunder" said they will do everything to reject such plan and call on LMC to investigate the allegation before the match. Top official of Abia Warriors, told Ni

As part of it immediate partnership’s dividend with The Different Box LLC and United Arab Emirates (Dubai Sports Council), four clubs from the Nationwide League One (NLO) have been invited to take part in a maiden edition of Gulf-African Football Tournament scheduled for early next year in Dubai. GAF is a tournament organized by a Dubai-based event management company (The Different Box) along with the permit of Dubai Sports Council. It is a two week event; starting from January 10-25, 2016 and will feature sixteen teams from both regions. The Executive Secretary of the NLO, Olushola Ogunnowo, said that the invitation was made possible following the league’s quest to collaborate with the lower league in Dubai in its effort to showcase the NLO to the globe. However, the league secretariat has written to all clubs in the NLO to prepare ahead of the tournament which would also serve as pre-season training for the clubs. “Good things are bound to happen in our league with the giant stri

Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) on Friday, 30th of October named Alexander Belinga as interim coach to replace sacked German Volker Finke as he look forward to booking a place at the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup with African Best Nominee, captain Stephane Etoundi Mbia. The German was appointed in May 2013 but his performance had come in for strong criticism after stream of poor results. Having spent close to two years under coach Volker Finke as a captain, Mbia will be looking forward to steer the Indomitable Lion to their 8th World Cup outing under Alexandre Belinga as they flag up their qualifying campaign against Niger Republic on November 15. The President of Cameroon the Fecafoot, Tombi A Roko, said that fellow Cameroonian Bonaventure Djonkep would be Belinga's assistant. Experienced Mbia won the last two edition of Europa Cup  with Sevilla of Spain, his wealth of experience of the round lethal game will go a long way in helping coach Belinga to land Cameroon their 8

Photograph by FIFA.com Brazil had looked bright in the opening stages, either finding Akpan Udoh in fine form in the Nigerian net or hitting their opportunities off target, with Rogerio and Evander two of the culprits.  A Seleção were made to rue those missed opportunities when the lethal Osimhen extended his lead at the top of the goalscoring charts. John Lazarus crossed from the Nigerian right and the Nigerian No9 headed in, via a deflection off Eder Militao. Moments later, Nigeria doubled their lead, Osimhen instrumental once more. The forward hooked a bouncing ball back over his shoulder, with Michael following in. The ball bounced up off the turf and past Juliano. The Brazilian No1 was deceived by another bounce just four minutes later, as Anumudu hit a left-footed drive from distance. The effort skipped off the turf, and past the stopper, who was visibly unhappy at not keeping the shot out. The second period saw few clear-cut opportunities, with Funsho Bamgboye and Evander g