Bolton have terminated the contract of Super Eagles defender Danny Shittu. The 30-year-old signed a three-year deal with the Trotters when he moved to the Reebok Stadium from Watford for a reported £2m fee in August 2008. The big defender made 12 appearances in his first season at Bolton but he fell down the pecking [...]
Nigerian defender Joseph Yobo has completed his season-long loan move from English Premier League side Everton to top Turkish side Fenerbahce. The deal, which includes the option to make the transfer permanent when the loan ends next summer, was completed yesterday afternoon ahead of the closure of the Turkish transfer window, after the 29-year-old agreed [...]
The World Cup and the credit crunch have all influenced the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. The vuvuzela, a horn instrument blown by football fans during the World Cup in South Africa, is one new entry. And recent financial problems led to the introduction of toxic debt – debt which has a [...]
All of United’s players from the first-team through to the Academy are eligible to play in the Premier League this season after the Reds submitted squad details for the 2010/11 campaign. Sir Alex Ferguson and his fellow top-flight managers had until 17:00 BST on 1 September to submit a squad of 25 players (plus an [...]
Tottenham new boy Rafael van der Vaart has declared he is ready to show the quality to rubbish reports he is a Real Madrid failure. Spurs pulled off the shock signing of the Netherlands international at the end of the summer transfer window. After falling behind Kaka, Sergio Canales and Mesut Oezil in the Madrid [...]
As the summer transfer market nears its close in the next 24 hours, many clubs are bringing in players to strengthen their squads. Among the latest deals is Joseph Yobo’s move to West Ham on a 6-month loan with an option of a sale. Yobo will be joining Obinna Nsofor at the Hammers, also on [...]
Amodu asks NFF to apologise over Lagerback Former Super Eagles manager, Shuaibu Amodu, yesterday, urged the Nigeria Football Federation to apologize to Nigerians for hiring his successor, Lars Lagerback. Lagerback took over from Amodu months before the Mundial, and led Nigeria to a first round crash, and has not returned to the country after the [...]
Germany became the first host nation to lift the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup as an early goal from their penalty-box princess, Alexandra Popp, and a late own goal earned them a 2-0 victory over Nigeria’s Flaconets who showed class in defeat. The early minute goal did not affect their positional play and total confidence [...]
Ain’t Nobody stopping Falconets , Coach. This not the issue of the super chickens and there lagerbackless coach or whatever. Nigeria’s team at the FIFA Under-20 Women World Cup, the Falconets are fired up as they prepare to face Colombia in tomorrow’s semi-final clash. CELEBRATION… Nigeria’s Falconets celebrates scoring a penalty during the FIFA U20 [...]
Manchester United defender Rafael da Silva and Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva have been included in new Brazil coach Mano Menezes’ first squad. Liverpool midfielder Rafael and Lucas were the only Premier League players named for the 10 August friendly against the United States. Just four players in Menezes’s squad – Dani Alves, Ramires, Thiago Silva [...]
Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell go head-to-head for the first time this year in the 100 metres at the Diamond League meet in Paris on Friday. Bolt and Powell, who share the fastest time this year of 9.82 seconds, meet in a much anticipated showdown at the Areva meet at the Stade de [...]
ABUJA – This is not best of times for four ex-helmsmen of the Nigerian Football Federation, Mr Taiwo Ogunjobi, Sani Lulu, Uchegbulam Amanze and Bolaji Ojo-Oba, as they spent over 10 hours Thursday at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, explaining the individual roles they played in an alleged mismanagement of about [...]
Nigeria’s performance at the just ended World Cup has been reflected in the ranking of all the teams that participated at the Mundial by FIFA. In a release by the world football governing body, Nigeria came a distant 27th position out of the 32 teams that participated. Other African teams at the tournament which included [...]
Investigation into allegations of fraud running into billions of naira in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) took a different turn Monday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) raided the Glass House in Abuja. Daily Sunsports gathered reliably that the raid which lasted for more than four hours saw the operatives carting [...]
Super Eagles defender Taye Taiwo could be on his way to the English Premier League as London based Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly in the lead to secure his signature. Taiwo was recently linked with a move to Atletico Madrid but the club the Spanish Primera Division outfit have not been able to tender an acceptable [...]
Let’s start rebuilding now – Supporters club Following President Goodluck Jonathan’s reversal of the two year ban on the national teams, the Nigerian Football Supporters Club yesterday took a retrospective look at football in the country and concluded that it was time to rebuild the Eagles. Speaking at the international secretariat of the club in [...]
Chukwu, Kojo thumb up for Jonathan Former coach of the national team, Christian Chukwu has welcomed the unbanning of the Eagles by President Goodluck Jonathan and said it was good news to all Nigerians and particularly, the youth whose careers have been saved. Speaking from his Enugu base on telephone, the former skipper of the [...]
World Cup claims three lives Tragedy struck at the weekend at the parsonage of the Assemblies of God Church, Laguru, Umuosu Ubakala, near Umuahia, Abia State, when the resident pastor, Monday Jacob, was found unconscious in his living room with his wife and two sons dead. Mr. Jacob was said to have packed into the [...]
striker Karim Benzema, according to AS. Manchester United are looking to jettison Dimitar Berbatov and Anderson in order to fund a £24 million bid for Benzema, 22, was a target for Sir Alex Ferguson last summer before he chose a move to the Spanish capital. Despitemissing out on the France World Cup 2010 squad and [...]
