•Bruno Labbadia The Nigeria Football Federation has announced that it has agreed with German tactician, Bruno Labbadia, to become the Head Coach of Nigeria’s Senior Men’s National Team, Super Eagles. In the early hours of today, NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi said: “The NFF Executive Committee has approved the recommendation of its...
•Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward, Vinicius Junior celebrates scoring a penalty Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, has endorsed Vinicius Jr to win this year’s Ballon d’Or award. According to a post on Fabrizio Romano’s X handle today, Ancelotti said all the players in the Real Madrid team had a brilliant season but singled out the Brazil...
•Barcelona’s German new coach Hansi Flick New Barcelona coach Hansi Flick today hailed the performance of the Spanish club’s teenage winger Lamine Yamal at Euro 2024, calling it “unbelievable”. Yamal made history in his country’s opening game against Croatia by becoming the youngest player ever to appear in a European Championship game at the ...
•Mbappe French striker and captain, Kylian Mbappe, asked to be substituted during extra-time in the Euro 2024 quarter-final win over Portugal because he was tired, his coach Didier Deschamps said. The usually prolific Mbappe has not been at his best during the Euros, scoring once from the penalty spot against Poland, but otherwise failing to [...
•Nigeria’s Super Eagles The Minister of Sports, Senator John Enoh, has assured Nigerian football fans that the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, would have a new coach in the next one or two weeks. The Super Eagles have been without a substantive coach following the expiration of the contract of Jose Peseiro after […]
•Coach Manu Garba The Board of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed former U17 World Cup winner Manu Garba as Head Coach of the Nigeria U17 boys, Golden Eaglets. Garba had, in the same role, led the Golden Eaglets to win the FIFA U17 World Cup for Nigeria in the United Arab Emirates in 2013 […]
•Super Eagles before the match against Cote d’Ivoire The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has started the search for a new head coach for the Super Eagles, about two weeks after Jose Peseiro left the post. Peseiro, who led Nigeria to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in February, left the role […]
•Jose Peseiro Jose Peseiro has left his role as the coach of the Super Eagles after taking the team to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The team lost to Cote d’Ivoire in the final of the competition. His contract with the team expired in February. Although there were reports that […]
•Bafana Bafana coach, Hugo Broos South Africa head coach, Hugo Broos, feels his side played better against Nigeria in yesterday’s semi-finals encounter which they lost 4-2 on penalties in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. The Bafana Bafana came back from a goal down to take the game to penalties but ended […]
•Sacked Coach Rui Vitoria Rui Vitoria has been sacked as Egypt head coach after the African football giants hopes of a record-extending eighth Africa Cup of Nations triumph were dashed last week, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) announced. In a statement, the EFA board of directors “thanked Portuguese manager Rui Vitoria and his staff,”...
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