Arsenal legend and two-time African Footballer of The Year Nwankwo Kanu revealed his disappointment after Nigeria failed to qualify for a second successive African Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament.
A Japanese surgeon has promised the Nigerian players a reward of $30,000 to each player if ever they win the gold medal at the Olympic football tournament.
The surgeon said that he has fallen in love with the Nigerian team after having heard of the financial issues on television. He stated that it is a great achievement in itself for a team with these kinds of problems to have reached this stage of the competition.
Sam Sodje is shocked how the bigwigs of Nigeria association can name someone manager of country’s senior side without having any deal in place with him.
Nigeria may be close to appointing interim manager Salisu Yusuf on a permanent basis.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) vice president, Seyi Akinwunmi, says that everyone at board level are pleased with the way the team has performed under the regime ofYusuf. Hence, they are now considering making him as the new Nigeria national team coach. The team competed in friendly games against Mali and Luxembourg under the regime ofYusuf. In both these games, the team performed exceptionally well and managed to concede only one goal.
Nigerian national team coach Salisu Yusuf has been facing criticism for his failure to pick a large number of homegrown players.
Jonathan Akpoborie believes that the current Nigerian Football Federation crisis will affect the Olympic team
The former Nigerian striker, Jonathan Akpoborie believes that the current crisis affecting the Nigerian Football Federation will have an impact on the Olympic team. The under-23 team will participate in the Olympics football tournament later this year.
For some more interesting news in the Nigerian football world, there has been a sacking by a federal high court ruling against the Nigeria Football Federation.
This news come out of left field for many fans who are still left speculating as to what the cause was and why this would even need to be done.
Nigeria will have to beat Egypt in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Egypt leads the table with 2 points and with only the group winner qualifying for Gabon 2017, it is important that Nigeria wins this game.
Real Madrid had to settle with a 1-1 draw against Real Betis as both sides faced off on January 24 and this result allowed Barcelona on having a bigger point’s advantage at the top of the Spanish League.
It’s still very early to predict who will be the winner of the Spanish League but it’s hard to deny the dominance that Barcelona has been displaying in every single match with Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez scoring goals consistently and almost effortlessly in certain games.
Nigeria may have achieved some decent set of results since Sunday Oliseh became the manager of the national team in July 2015.