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Keshi Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has emphatically said that he would not attend Nigerian international, Peter Osaze Odemwingies forthcoming high-profile wedding billed for England.Big Boss said tight schedule for the preparation of Eagles for various matches would not allow him to honour such an invitation if it had ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90232/2/busy-schedule-keeps-keshi-out-of-odemwingie8217s-w.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90232/2/busy-schedule-keeps-keshi-out-of-odemwingie8217s-w.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/90232/2/#showcomments2 Thu, 17 May 2012 07:30:29 +0100
Aiyegbeni Relegated Blackburn Rovers striker, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, might not be a part of the foreign-based players expected to make the list of the Super Eagles team that would prosecute the World and Nations Cup qualifiers against Namibia and Rwanda billed for next month at the U.J Esuene Stadium, Calabar. Sources at the teams camp reveale ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90219/2/worldnations-cup-qualifiers.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90219/2/worldnations-cup-qualifiers.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/90219/2/#showcomments2 Thu, 17 May 2012 07:01:11 +0100
Action during the soccer event at the recently concluded Enugu State Zonal Sports Meet at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium. Imo State Sports Commissioner, Hon. Ken Emelu, is blaming the Confederation of African Football CAF for Heartlands exit from the CAF Confederation Cup on Sunday in Congo. Emelu, who was close to tears in Dolisie, Congo, ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90136/2/confederation-cup-heartland-lost-to-caf-not-leopar.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90136/2/confederation-cup-heartland-lost-to-caf-not-leopar.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/90136/2/#showcomments2 Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:50 +0100
In its determination to rebrand football in the country, the Nigerian soccer governing body, NFF, has raised the level of sponsorship of the FA Cup competition, earmarking a whopping N100 million to prosecute this years tournament and perhaps return the glamour associated with the oldest football competition in Nigeria. Daily Sunsports scoope ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90132/2/nff-earmarks-n100m-for-fa-cup.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90132/2/nff-earmarks-n100m-for-fa-cup.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/90132/2/#showcomments2 Wed, 16 May 2012 06:30:37 +0100
Ex-international, Garba Lawal, has argued that considering the playing career experience of most Nigerian footballers, the hullabaloo about artificial pitches in most Nigerian stadia ought not be an issue of serious concern, reminding the Super Eagles players and the head coach, Stephen Keshi, that they were products of street football. The Ea ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90042/2/stop-complaining-about-pitches-lawal-tells-keshi-p.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/90042/2/stop-complaining-about-pitches-lawal-tells-keshi-p.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/90042/2/#showcomments2 Tue, 15 May 2012 06:30:23 +0100
Two Nigerian club sides, Heartland FC of Owerri and Warri Wolves have been bundled out of the Confederation Cup, ending the nations aspirations to have a representative to win the CAF Confederation trophy. Both teams on away missions could not muster strength to guide against slipping out of the Confederation competition despite their earlier ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89973/2/confederation-cup-leopards-devour-heartland-wolves.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89973/2/confederation-cup-leopards-devour-heartland-wolves.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89973/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:39 +0100
Former coach of IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan from 1974-79, Mr Alan Hawkes and some members of the 1976 squad that won the first continental trophy for Nigeria, have reacted to the death of the teams former player, Mr Joseph Appiah, who died in a private hospital on Saturday morning in Ibadan. In an e-mail sent yesterday to Daily Sunsports, t ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89956/2/hawkes-odegbami-slow-poison-boamah-mourn-appiah.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89956/2/hawkes-odegbami-slow-poison-boamah-mourn-appiah.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89956/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:31 +0100
The Nigeria Football Federation NFF has said that Boko Haram insurgency and the general security concern in the country posed serious challenges to the venues for this years FA Cup competition, assuring that the federation will not prosecute any match in any unsafe stadium. Director of Competition, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, who made the disclosur ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89952/2/nff-raises-security-alarm-over-fa-cup.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89952/2/nff-raises-security-alarm-over-fa-cup.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89952/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 14 May 2012 06:30:49 +0100
...Roberto Mancinis side pip neighbours United on afternoon of astonishing dramaManchester City were crowned champions of the Barclays Premier League after an afternoon of astonishing drama at the Etihad Stadium.Roberto Mancinis side seemed to be destined for second place for much of the afternoon as Queens Park Rangers produced a ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89937/2/manchester-city-win-barclays-premier-league-title.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89937/2/manchester-city-win-barclays-premier-league-title.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89937/2/#showcomments2 Sun, 13 May 2012 20:01:00 +0100
A Premier League season full of twists and turns reaches a defining climax on Sunday with Manchester City poised to end a 44-year wait to become English champions.City, eight points behind holders Manchester United in early April, have reeled in their neighbours and head into their finale at home to Queens Park Rangers 1400 level on 8 ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89924/2/premier-league-season-reaches-judgement-day.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89924/2/premier-league-season-reaches-judgement-day.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89924/2/#showcomments2 Sun, 13 May 2012 15:01:08 +0100
Linus Mba The name, Linus Mbah, is now synonymous with refereeing. He is in every consideration a father figure in the Nigerian referee family after paying the price and meticulously climbing through the ranks. Fielding questions from Sunday Sunsports in Abuja recently, the Enugu State-born referee spoke on the challenges facing refereeing i ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89897/2/day-ranchers-fans-almost-killed-me-linus-mba.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89897/2/day-ranchers-fans-almost-killed-me-linus-mba.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89897/2/#showcomments2 Sun, 13 May 2012 12:00:40 +0100
Tragedy has again befallen the Shooting Stars Sports Club 3SC, Ibadan, as another former player, Joe Appiah, died Saturday morning, the same day that the eighth day fidau of another former ace of the club, the late Rashidi Yekini, held. Appiah, a Ghanaian national, who was the right full back for the then IICC Shooting Stars in their victori ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89893/2/another-shooting-star-player-joe-appiah-dies.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89893/2/another-shooting-star-player-joe-appiah-dies.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89893/2/#showcomments2 Sun, 13 May 2012 11:30:52 +0100
Oparanozie Desire Oparanozie wears jersey No. 9 in the Falconets, the same jersey number the late Nigerias all-time goal king, Rashidi Yekini, who passed on penultimate Friday in his hometown, Ira in Kwara State, wore in his playing days in the Super Eagles. But the Falconets striker is currently ruing her inability to honour the legendary ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89891/2/desire-to-score-shake-net-for-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89891/2/desire-to-score-shake-net-for-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89891/2/#showcomments2 Sun, 13 May 2012 11:30:45 +0100
Warri Wolves defence marshal, Ike ThankGod, has vowed that his side is not afraid of trading tackles with the Black Leopards in tomorrows CAF Confederation Cup return leg third round fixture inside the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, South Africa. The South African side lost the first leg 3-1 at the Warri Township Stadium a fortnight ago ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89874/2/we-wont-bow-to-black-leopards-thankgod.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89874/2/we-wont-bow-to-black-leopards-thankgod.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89874/2/#showcomments2 Sat, 12 May 2012 13:01:21 +0100
From obscurity, he sprang to the limelight and bestrode the football firmament like a colossus. His heroics in the beautiful game of football not only earned him fame, but also enough fortune that enveloped his humble background. But the story that preceded the recent demise of Nigerias all-time goal king, Rashidi Yekini, opens another chapter in ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89872/2/rashidi-yekini-another-sad-end-of-national-hero.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89872/2/rashidi-yekini-another-sad-end-of-national-hero.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89872/2/#showcomments2 Sat, 12 May 2012 13:01:12 +0100
Nigeria Football Federation NFF has assured Nigerian coaches that the era of slave contracts or mere gentlemen agreements is certainly over, expressing confidence in the quality and competence of the coaches.In an address he delivered during the opening ceremony of the NFF-organised FIFA WIAWA coaching course at the Nicon Luxury Hotel, A ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89784/2/no-more-slave-contract-for-nigerian-coaches-nff.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89784/2/no-more-slave-contract-for-nigerian-coaches-nff.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89784/2/#showcomments2 Fri, 11 May 2012 07:01:02 +0100
Namibia will train in Germany to play a warm-up game against Mozambique ahead of next months 2014 World Cup qualifier in Nigeria. The Eagles will play host to the Brave Warriors on June 3 in an opening game of a qualifying section that also has Malawi and Kenya. Namibia, led by a German Technical Director, Klaus Stark, will set up a training ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89772/2/namibia-to-train-in-germany-for-eagles.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89772/2/namibia-to-train-in-germany-for-eagles.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89772/2/#showcomments2 Fri, 11 May 2012 06:30:41 +0100 http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89735/2/discard-home-based-tag-on-eagles-onigbinde-tells-k.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89735/2/discard-home-based-tag-on-eagles-onigbinde-tells-k.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89735/2/#showcomments2 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:03:17 +0100
Siasia Liberia Football Association has shunned former Eagles handler, Samson Siasia for the post of its national team coach, as it has appointed Kaetu Smith to coach the Lone Star. The Liberian replaces Italys Roberto Landi, who was dismissed by the FA in February. Smith, last coached in Liberia in the 1990s, leading both Baccus Marines a ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89728/2/liberia-fa-shuns-siasia-names-smith-new-national-c.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89728/2/liberia-fa-shuns-siasia-names-smith-new-national-c.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89728/2/#showcomments2 Thu, 10 May 2012 18:32:21 +0100
BY OKEY NDIRIBE, Abuja Super Eagles striker Uche Kalu who scored a goal in the last friendly match against Egypt has revealed that the Chief Coach of the national team Stephen Keshi has inspired him with a winning mentality. The Enyimba FC of Aba player who disclosed this yesterday during a media parley with sports journalists in Abuja, ex ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89632/2/keshi-has-inspired-me-uche-kalu.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89632/2/keshi-has-inspired-me-uche-kalu.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89632/2/#showcomments2 Thu, 10 May 2012 06:30:38 +0100
Sometimes it is not just about who the player is, but how the coach puts the player to use on the pitch and that is what Coach Adegboye Onigbinde did with the late lethal striker, Rashidi Yekini, when he invited him to the senior national team back in 1993. To the Modakeke High Chief, Onigbinde, the demise of Yekini is like losing a son beca ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89543/2/i-lost-a-son-in-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89543/2/i-lost-a-son-in-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89543/2/#showcomments2 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:33:05 +0100
Keshi Super Eagles preparations for the May 23 international friendly against Peru in Lima, started yesterday at the Practice Pitch of the National Stadium in Abuja, with all the players invited in attendance apart from the injured duo of Solomon Jabason and Shehu Maijema. Also, all the invited players of Heartland of Owerri and Warri Wolve ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89538/2/18-eagles-gear-up-for-peru-friendly.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89538/2/18-eagles-gear-up-for-peru-friendly.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89538/2/#showcomments2 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:36 +0100
Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, has disclosed that the duo of Mikel Obi and Victor Moses in addition to other players who had hectic season would get an entirely different training programme, if they are invited for the June busy- match schedule, assuring that he wont give them stressful training to break down before the matches. Fie ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89528/2/mikel-moses-to-get-special-training-from-keshi.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89528/2/mikel-moses-to-get-special-training-from-keshi.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89528/2/#showcomments2 Wed, 09 May 2012 06:30:47 +0100
Chairman Christian Chukwu Super Eagles former coach, Chairman Christian Chukwu has said that a replacement of the late Rashidi Yekini in the senior national team is still elusive as no striker has matched the level of the former African Footballer of the years performance during his days in the Super Eagles. Chukwu, a member of the Nigeria ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89447/2/eagles-yet-to-get-replacement-for-yekini-chukwu.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89447/2/eagles-yet-to-get-replacement-for-yekini-chukwu.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89447/2/#showcomments2 Tue, 08 May 2012 07:30:47 +0100
The Oyo State government has set up an endowment fund for children of the late Nigerian ex-international, Rashidi Yekini. This was made known yesterday after the state executive council meeting by the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Hon Dapo Lam-Adesina. According to him, the endowment fund, which will be strictly for the children of the la ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89439/2/oyo-floats-endowment-fund-for-yekini8217s-children.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89439/2/oyo-floats-endowment-fund-for-yekini8217s-children.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89439/2/#showcomments2 Tue, 08 May 2012 07:01:11 +0100
Manchester City took a huge step towards their first title for 44 years when they won 2-0 at Newcastle United to stay top of the Premier League on goal difference from Manchester United with one match left.Both teams have 86 points after United beat Swansea City 2-0 at Old Trafford but Citys goal difference of 63 is eight better than U ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89355/2/city-close-in-on-first-title-since-1968.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89355/2/city-close-in-on-first-title-since-1968.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89355/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 07 May 2012 10:01:45 +0100
Juventus clinched their first Italian title for nine seasons on Sunday but not until Serie A had dished up its customary climactic mix of chaos, drama and controversy.Unbeaten Juventus comfortably dispatched Cagliari 2-0 in a match which the Sardinians hosted in Trieste - closer to Zagreb than their own island base - and featured a last ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89354/2/more-drama-and-chaos-as-juventus-claim-title.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89354/2/more-drama-and-chaos-as-juventus-claim-title.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89354/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 07 May 2012 10:01:44 +0100
The top two seeds advanced to the Madrid Open second round on Sunday when Victoria Azarenka dispatched Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 6-4 and Maria Sharapova crushed Irina-Camelia Begu 6-0 6-2.Making a less auspicious debut on the unfamiliar blue clay, a controversial innovation at this years edition of the event, was 2010 French Open champio ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89353/2/azarenka-sharapova-advance-in-madrid.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89353/2/azarenka-sharapova-advance-in-madrid.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89353/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 07 May 2012 10:01:42 +0100
Like a colossus, Rashidi Yekini bestrode the football world with an aura that many of his contemporaries wished they could attain. Goal.com presents some of the most memorable highlights in the career of Nigerian legend who passed away in unsung circumstances on May 4. 5 Portuguese top scorer award Yekini Being among the early batch ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89348/2/five-most-memorable-moments-of-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89348/2/five-most-memorable-moments-of-yekini.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89348/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 07 May 2012 10:01:12 +0100
Nigerias Super Eagles have turned beautiful brides as Imo and Cross River States are now jostling to play host to the national team in its quest for the 2014 World Cup qualification. As World football governing body, FIFA, awaits Nigeria to confirm the venue of its World Cup qualifier on June 2 against Namibia, the two states are fighting over th ...]]> http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89328/2/imo-cross-river-fight-over-eagles-match-venue.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsports/89328/2/imo-cross-river-fight-over-eagles-match-venue.html http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvsportsthread1/89328/2/#showcomments2 Mon, 07 May 2012 08:03:16 +0100