In his famous work The Mysterious Stranger, American writer Mark Twain wrote that “joy and sanity cannot coexist”. Clearly, not everyone would agree. However, in the world of football, where great victories are often accompanied by spontaneous outpourings of elation, those words carry more than a grain of truth. Some football celebrations are uncontrollable; some [...]
Nigeria has moved its coming World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers over fears of attacks by Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect. The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, issued a statement saying matches scheduled for 3 and 17 June would be played at the U.J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar, a city in the country’s [...]
The appointment of an ally of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to the organising committee of the 2014 World Cup was widely seen by sports experts in the South American country on Wednesday as a last ditch effort to avoid the tournament collapsing. World governing body FIFA announced Tuesday in Zurich that the Brazilian government would [...]
There seems to be no end in sight for Nigeria’s continued drop on the monthly FIFA Ranking, as the country once again dropped by three spots in the May ranking released from FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, today. Nigeria, who were ranked 60 before the ranking was released by FIFA dropped three spots to 63rd, [...]
) Nigeria’s futsal football national team have qualified for the final round of the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup African qualifiers following Gabon’s withdrawal from their second round fixture. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the first leg tie of the second round fixture would have come up on Sunday, May 6 in Lagos. Ademola [...]
Nigeria’s chances of featuring at the forthcoming FIFA Female World Cup in August, brightened as the Super Falconets defeated their Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart by 4-0. The match which was the 3rd round, African qualifier of the FIFA U-29 Women World Cup, was played at the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Abeokuta. The Falconets and the DR [...]
Super Eagles defender, Taye Taiwo, and his Queen Park Rangers teammates will be flying high as they tackle his compatriot’s Osaze Odemwingie’sWest Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns tomorrow. A 3-0 triumph to the Londoners over Swansea in a midweek tie catapulted Mark Hughes’ men two points clear of the drop zone, while WBA lost their [...]
