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AFCON 2013: Meet Nigeria’s Winning Team

By Arinze Ude 1 Vincent Enyeama GK (Hapoel Tel Aviv/ISR) 2 Joseph Yobo DF (Fenerbahce/TUR) 3 Elderson Echejile DF (Braga/POR) 4 Obiora Nwankwo MF (Parma/ITA) 5 Efe Ambrose DF (Celtic/SCO) 6 Azubuike Egwueke DF (Warri Wolves/NIG) 7 Ahmed Musa FW

Super Eagles vs Mexico Friendly: Venue, Date, Tickets all set

By Arinze Ude   The Mexican Football Federation have confirmed a date with the Nigerian Super Eagles. The Mexican National team, El Tricolor will face the Super Eagles in a friendly game on the 31st of May at Reliant Stadium

Lucky Number 13: 13 Years Later Team Nigeria receives Gold from Sydney 2000 Olympics

By Arinze Ude Following the disqualification of the original winners, the United States relay team, for doping, Nigeria’s 4x400m relay quartet at the 2000 Sydney Olympics has been presented with the Gold medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This

Nigerian Boxer is WBO Champion!

By Arinze Ude   Former Nigerian amateur boxer, King Davidson Emenogu defeated Russia’s Russia’s Andrejs Iodinovs in the fifth round to retain his World Boxing Organization (WBO) International light middleweight title in Southampton on Sunday. Emenogu, who was initially pencilled

WEEKEND UPDATE: Nigerians in the Premier League

By Arinze Ude SWANSEA CITY 1-0 NEWCASTLE Fresh from their 5-nil thumping of League One side, Bradford City, in the Capital One Cup, Swansea City showed no signs of hangover as they beat Newcastle to confirm their top flight status.

After AFCON: Fresh Blood adds steel to the Super Eagles National Team

By Arinze Ude Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi surprised everybody when he led Joseph Yobo and co to the African Cup of Nations title a few weeks ago. Prior to the tournament, nobody gave “The Big Boss” and his boys,

Nigeria Makes Guinness World Records, With the Biggest Jersey on Earth

In the spirit of the African Cup of Nations competition concluded a few weeks back, Guinness Nigeria launched a pitch-sized jersey and laid it over the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium — in January. The organization did it

WEEKEND UPDATE: Nigerians in the Premier League

By Arinze Ude WEST BROM 2-1 SUNDERLAND Peter Clarke named Osaze Odemwingie in his team list for the first time since the transfer deadline day saga. The Nigerian International striker was a substitute for two-goal hero, Romelu Lukaku, replacing the

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Nwankwo Obiorah

By Arinze Ude The midfield maestro was born in Kaduna on 12 July 1991 and he’s currently on loan to Romanian perennial champions, CFR Cluj from parent club, Parma FC of Italy. He started his career at ECO in Lagos

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Ahmed Musa

By Arinze Ude Born October 20 1992, Musa started his career at Jos, his place of birth, with Aminchi Football Academy before being loaned out to JUTH and then Kano Pillars in the Nigerian Premier League. At Kano Pillars, he

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Ikechukwu Uche

By Arinze Ude Ikechukwu Uche was born on 5th January 1984 in Aba. He started his career with Iwuanyanwu Nationale before travelling out to Spain to join Racing Ferrol in Spanish Segunda division as an 18-year old. He’s played most

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Kenneth Omeruo

By Arinze Ude Kenneth Josiah Omeruo was born in Kaduna on October, 17 1993 but started his career at Standard Liege in Belgium. He played for Nigeria at the junior World Cup in Colombia in 2011. He was transferred to

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Ogenyi Onazi

By Arinze Ude The Lazio youngster was born on December 25, 1992 in Lagos. He started his career with Prophet TB Joshua’s My People FC, an academy set up by the preacher to promote and encourage young footballers. He came

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Nosa Igiebor

By Arinze Ude Emmanuel Nosakhare Igiebor was born in Abuja on 9 November 1990. He started his career with Abuja FC, joining Warri Wolves a year later. He spent two years with Warri Wolves before jetting off to Norway to

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Godfrey Oboabona

By Arinze Ude The Akure-born defender plays for Sunshine Stars in the Nigerian Premier League and was born on 16th August 1990. He made his international debut for Nigeria in 2012 and has appeared in FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.

AFCON 2013: Super Eagles Player Profile – Fegor Ogude

By Arinze Ude The Norway-based midfielder was born on 29th July 1987 in the country’s commercial city of Lagos. He started his career with Warri Wolves before travelling to Scandinavia to join Valerenga in 2010. He made his debut in

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