The 2018 World Cup soccer tournament is ongoing in Russia, with 5 African countries among the initial competitors. In the worst continental performance for decades, all African contestants have failed to make it past the first round of this tournament. Regardless of sentimental considerations about... Read more...
Five -time world champions, the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have landed in the city of Gioania, Brazil, where the team will tackle Hungary at the Estadio Olimpico in the opening game of Group B of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup finals on Saturday. Players and the officials were received by FIFA and l... Read more...
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare has said the Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna will be ready in time as one of the host venues for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in July 2020. The minister made the statement after an on-the-spot inspection visit to the stadium and furt... Read more...
Iranian women fans will be allowed to attend a men’s soccer World Cub qualifying match in the Islamic Republic in October, the official IRNA news agency quoted a Sports Ministry official as saying on Sunday, amid heightened pressure from FIFA. While foreign women have been allowed limited acce... Read more...
World football –ruling body, FIFA has appointed Nigerian officials led by Quadri Adebimpe to superintend over the 2022 FIFA World Cup preliminary qualifying match between Gambia and Angola scheduled for Bakau on Friday, 6th September 2019. The match, scheduled for the Independence Stadium... Read more...
Mr Albert Andinam, Chairman, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Cross River Chapter, said on Monday that 30 years after the demise of the football legend, Samuel Okwaraji, the nation still mourned him. Andinam, who made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (... Read more...
Super Eagles defender Leon Balogun has pleaded with the Nigeria Football Federation, NFFnot to dispense with the team’s coach, Germot Rohr adding that keeping the current crop of the Nigerian team technical crew will be good for the national team in the long run. The Eagles finished thir... Read more...
By Segun Odegbami There are several matters that have arisen from the debris of my columns of the past two weeks. I have received more responses to them in one week than I did since the start of the year. They seem to have touched some very raw nerves. Even my football compatriot from the pas... Read more...
Star striker Megan Rapinoe said Tuesday she does not think the United States’ Women’s World Cup-winning team would accept an invitation from President Donald Trump to visit the White House, Bestchoicesports.com.ng understand. “I would not go and every teammate that I’ve talked to explicitl... Read more...