Manchester United defeated Crystal Palace on Saturday in a Barclays Premiere League match played at Old Trafford. Juan Mata, who has made only eight appearances for United this season, came from the bench to hand his club their first win in four games, after a slim loss to Manchester City last week at the Etihad…
Super Falcons of Nigeria, on Saturday, defeated their Cameroonian counterpart to lift the 2014 African Women Championship cup for the 7th time since the competition’s inception in 1998. The Nigerian team had beaten South Africa by 2-1 in the semi-finals of the tournament hosted by Namibia to book a place in the final with Cameroon.…
Former Barcelona shot-stopper, Victor Valdes, has met with Manchester United coach, Louis van Gaal, over a possible move to the club. The Spanish goalkeeper hopes to team up with his countryman, David De Gea, who is United’s first choice goalkeeper. Valdes played about 535 games for Barca over a period of 12 years and failed…
Nigeria is again at the risk of being banned by FIFA as a court in Plateau State has nullified the elections held in Warri, Delta State, that produced Amaju Pinnick as President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on September 30, 2014. On Thursday, Justice Ambrose Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau…
The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has relieved Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Keshi of his duties in the team and has announced the appointment of Shaibu Amodu as the Caretaker Coach of the Nigerian national football team. Keshi, who has been out of contract since returning from the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, where…
The Nigerian senior national football team will go head-to-head with their South African counterpart in an AFCON qualifying match later on Wednesday in the late Nelson Mandela country. The Super Eagles will ensure a victory against the Bafana Bafana in order to be in a good position of qualifying for the competition. The Eagles lost…
An early morning fire gutted the secretariat of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, in Abuja on Wednesday. The inferno reportedly started some minutes past 9am. The fire started at the Chief Accountant office, Aproko247 learnt. Some properties were destroyed in the incident, though men of the fire services have put off the inferno as at…
There was a mild drama at the Glass House secretariat of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, on Monday as the impeached president of the country’s highest football body, Aminu Maigari, resumed office. Before his arrival to the secretariat on Monday, Maigairi’s former vice-president, Mike Umeh, who has taken his ex-boss’ place in an acting capacity,…
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has cleared the air on a letter received on Thursday, which a section of the media claimed asked the Federation to restore its former president, Aminu Maigari, to his position. In a swift reaction, NFF acting president, Mike Umeh, in a statement, explained that there was no where FIFA told…
Nigeria defeated England on Wednesday at the ongoing FIFA Under 20 Women’s World Cup in Canada to clinch a place in the quarter-final of the competition. The Nigeria’s Falconets beat the English team by 2-1. The Nigerian team finished as the group leader on seven points and will face New Zealand in the next stage…