Almost all the impact players for the Golden Eaglets in Saturday night’s 4-2 defeat of Hungary in the opening match of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup finals in Brazil are products of the annual NFF/Zenith Bank Future Eagles Championships, including the goal-scorers. The competition, sponsored by NFF’s partner, Zenith International Bank PLC, was launched in the year 2016 and ...

Five –time champions Nigeria swept past Hungary 4-2 in the opening match of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup finals in Brazil on Saturday evening, with three goals in six second half minutes that were just reward for the persistence and determination of the Golden Eaglets. As happened when both teams last met at the championship – the inaugural edition ...

Before the ball starts rolling earlier today (Saturday) at the 18th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA has taken the opportunity to hold interactive sessions for all participating member associations in order to brief them on match manipulation and betting prevention while strengthening their capacity to recognise, resist and report any suspicious activity through FIFA’s reporting mechanisms. Since ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCON) Ghana 2018 finalist, South Africa will take on the host of Olympics Tokyo 2020, Japan in an international friendly match on November, 10. South Africa Football Association (SAFA) has confirmed that the Grade A match will take place during the next FIFA international break despite Banyana Banyana’s shocking exit in the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. European Champions, Liverpool is presently placing nineth in the list of top 10 teams with the most lucrative kit sponsorship deals in world football Liverpool have recently won a court battle against New Balance (NB) that will allow them to search for a new kit manufacturer next year. The ruling means that the European champions only have ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Top three countries in the monthly FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for the better part of this year have remained unchanged in the latest world ranking with Nigeria losing one point and stays number 35 despite playing out 1-1 draw recently against a strong Selecao of Brazil in Singapore. Senegal remained the highest ranked African country as number 20 ...

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 local organizing committee officials at the airport ...

In view of the several duplication of the allegations, court cases and petitions against the officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) is to have all cases and petitions against the Federation and its officials harmonized for an independent review by office of AGF, to determine the veracity or otherwise of ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Following the success of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017, the world’s best youth players, including Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets, are due to meet in Brazil for the FIFA U-17 World Cup beginning 26 October. As has been the case since the first edition of the tournament in 1985, the FIFA Technical Study Group (TSG) will analyse the ...

Harry Awurumibe, Abuja. Top African footballers plying their trade in big clubs in Europe have been nominated among the 30 players unveiled by the organizers of the annual Ballon d’ Or with Nigeria’s Samuel Chukwueze nominated for Kopa Trophy Award. Among the African nominees for Ballon d’ Or are Liverpool Football Club’s duo os Sane Mane and Mohamed Salah OF ...