The Super Eagles of Nigeria welcome the Red Devils of Congo to Calabar in their opening qualifying match for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. This is the team’s first game after the round-of-16 defeat to France at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and coach Stephen Keshi is in the saddle again, albeit without a contract, to see [...]
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The Super Eagles of Nigeria will now host Congo in Calabar in Group A of the AFCON 2015 qualifiers, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) disqualified Rwanda on Sunday. Rwanda, who had been wary of coming to Nigeria for the match because of cases of Ebola in Nigeria, were found to have played an ineligible player in the first leg of their [...]
Stoke City have completed their sixth signing of the season, bringing Nigerian winger Victor Moses in on a season-long loan deal from Chelsea. Moses has struggled to make an impact at Stamford Bridge since moving from Wigan for £9 million in 2012 and spent last season on loan at Liverpool. The 23-year-old, who can play on both flanks and in a [...]
An interim coach could be appointed to lead the Super Eagles to Rwanda for the September 6 qualifier for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations match should negotiations between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the out-of-contract Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, remain inconclusive. Deji Tinubu, a member of the three- man committee set up by the executive committee of the [...]
Six-time African champions the Super Falcons have qualified for the 2014 African Women's Championship after defeating Rwanda 8-0 to win 12-1 on aggregate in second round second leg game played in Kaduna on Saturday. The flood-gate of goals opened after 10 minutes when Blessing Edoho fired the Nigerians into the lead. Asisat Oshoala added the second few minutes later. Desire Oparanozie [...]
Perpetua Nkwocha and seven other foreign-based players invited to the national senior women football team preparing for the 2014 African Women Championship (AWC) qualifiers have been given a May 16 deadline to join their teammates in camp in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the team’s head coach, Edwin Okon, as saying any player who failed to make it [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has invited eight foreign-based players to bolster the national senior women's team, the Super Falcons, ahead of the African Women Championship (AWC) qualifiers. The team’s media officer, Gracious Akujobi, quoted the team administrator, Ruth David, as saying that the players' invitation letters had been dispatched to their clubs. “The players are Perpetua Nkwocha and Helen Ukaonu, both of [...]
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