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Photograph by Modo Victor Adams Jesse Odoba-Yacham The name Sunusi Ibrahim is not new to Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) followers as he alongside Mfon Udoh won the 2019 Eunisell Golden boot. 10 goals with 6 assists from 19 games, the Nasarawa United winger announced himself to the world as he was quickly drafted into the Nigeria team for the U23 Afcon billed to be hosted by Egypt in November this year. Sunusi impressed when he climbed off the bench in the first leg against the Sudanese in Omdurman as Nigeria lost by 1-0. In a swift reaction, Coach Imama Amapakabo drafted the winger into the starting line up as he scored a goal with an assist as the Olympic team ran riot over their Sudanese counterparts. Speaking after the game, Sunusi Ibrahim gave thanks to God for putting up such performance in his first start. The forward believes he has what it takes to continue to produce such performances when the opportunity presents itself, as he is never under any...

Following the release of draws for the Federation Cup Round of 64 and subsequent dates for other stages of the competition, some fixtures of the Glo Premier League has been adjusted and dates announced for outstanding fixtures involving the teams that played on the continent. Salihu Abubakar, Chief Operating Officer of the League Management Company (LMC) announced the minor adjustments and explained that the adjustments are inevitable as the league dates have already been fixed before the Federation Cup draws were held.  “NFF programs always take precedence over other football programs and it is in deference to this code that the LMC has adjusted it’s league schedules”, added Abubakar. Postponed Match Day 3 fixtures involving Shooting Stars and Kano Pillars in Ibadan have been slated for Wednesday, May 6 while Dolphins and Warri Wolves will play on Thursday, May 7 in Port Harcourt.are still involved in CAF Confederations Cup and have arrears of three games in th...

The 2014 League Bloggers Awards (LBA) will take place at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers in Lagos on December 15. According to the CEO of LBA, Ojeikere Aikhoje, the award night for actors in Nigeria's top flight, the Glo Premier League, will have players, coaches and clubs vie for awards in 16 categories. Aikhoje also revealed that the nominees for the 16 categories will be made public on Friday. "The League Bloggers Awards event for this year's ending season in the Glo Premier League will come up on December 15, and we want to make it a glamorous one at that. There will be awards up for grabs in 16 categories but one of them is already concluded and there is no dispute about that. The highest goalscorer award will go to Mfon Udoh of Enyimba for scoring 23 goals in a single season - the first player to do so. But the other 15 are up for grabs. "The most prestigious among those 15 awards is the Player of the Season which we are sure everyone will be looking forward ...

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The Super Eagles have arrived the Brazilian capital city of Brasilia for Monday’s second round World Cup tango against the Les Blues of France. All the 23 players and technical officials led by Stephen Keshi were on the flight that landedat 4:07pm local time, which is 8:07 Nigerian time. Also on the flight with the Eagles was NFF Vice President, Chief Mike Umeh and Mallam Shehu Dikko. Following the controversy over the team’s training schedule on Thursday, the team immediately checked into its abode at the serene Plaza Brasilia, which is a stone throw away from where the French side is quartered. After light refreshment the team zoomed off to training to do the catching up on missed time. Youthful midfielder, Babatunde Michael, will however be the only player who will not taste action and he said he feels bad following the injury he sustained on the wrist,  upon which surgery has since been carried out. “I will be praying for the team and I ...

Pix by:worldcupzones.com Nigeria Sports Arena welcomes you to another edition of Past and Present in Brazil. We usually take a cursory look at the previous games and the upcoming ones in the Samba land. The 2014 World Cup have produced avalanche of goals of about 113 only in the group stages with few games to round off the pool stages and breeze into the Round of 16. World Cup host, Brazil and other seven countries are in the next round already. Unarguably, the 2014 World Cup is full of upset, two great teams, Italy and England were knocked out of the tournament to join the likes of Spain, Croatia and Cameroon,  although the English team were mathematically out before the last game in Group D. Ivory Coast were dispatched last night 2-1 by Greece in a fierce encounter, thus making  the second African team to leave the big event. Greece made it to the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time with a controversial win over Ivory Coast via a questionable spot kick converted...

Nigeria Sports Arena brings to you actions that went down on Monday in Brazil and x-ray the games that will be coming up Today. The last round of matches in the group stages began on Monday with four fixtures coming from Group A and B, 14 goals were added to the initial 90 goals, Neymar netted twice and emerges the top scorer of the ongoing tourney with four goals. Cameroon took on Brazil, and the Samba Boys ambushed the Indomitable Lions 4-1, thus, eliminating the African team and forge ahead to the Knockout stages, Croatia and Mexico engaged in an interesting game that ended 3-1 in favour of the Mexican, the likes of Modric, Olic, Rakitic and others couldn't help Croatia to get pass the group stage, Australia were knocked out 0-3 by the World Cup Champions, Spain who apparently did not make a major impact in Brazil, the Netherlands were once again on rampage against a determined Chilean side as they stopped their opponents with two unreplied goals. Neymar continue to live ...

Pix by:www.theguardian.com A short maxim says that "the last thing to leave a man is hope" when a man is hopeless everything around him would be fruitless. Keshi as a coach over the years has shown some level of confidence which is as a result of being hopeful, he was hopeful against Ivory Coat in the last edition of African Cup of Nation( AFCON) the outcome of that game boasted the morale of his squad and the Super Eagles went on to play in the final against Burkina Faso and defeated them by a lone strike courtesy of Sunday Mba. Recently, the Super Eagles didn't put up a good performance according to public opinions when we played a goalless draw against Iran, Stephen Keshi maintained his confidence level after the game he didn't fret rather he was smiling while speaking to Journalists after the game on Supersports 3 hoping that Nigeria will win their next game against a highly rated Bosnia-Hercegovina side. To some, it sounded stupid and unrealistic but you k...