Kenya have denied they will retaliate against Nigeria for the alleged mistreatment of the Harambee Stars by the Nigeria Football Federation when they visited the country for their first leg 2014 World Cup qualifier. The  Super Eagles, who are tied on five points with Malawi in Group F of the  World Cup qualifiers,    have a make-or-break second leg clash   against  the Harambee Stars in Nairobi on June 5. F ...

Nigeria U20 team has drawn against Brazil and 2013 World Cup rivals Portugal in this year’s Toulon tournament, which kicks off on May 28. The Flying Eagles are in Group B of the 10-team tournament and kick off their campaign on May 29 against defending champions Mexico. Nigeria lost 4-1 to Mexico in another invitational tournament in Panama preparatory to the 2011 World Cup in Colombia, where the Flying Eag ...

Nigeria’s under-20 men football team, the Flying Eagles, arrived in Germany on Tuesday for camping ahead of the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup finals in Turkey. The team’s Media Officer, Samm Audu, said in a statement in Abuja that the team arrived at the Frankfurt International Airport at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday. The statement said the team’s second batch of players is expected later this week to join the s ...

Nigeria soccer buffs have hailed the gesture by Africa Cup of Nations star, Emmanuel Emenike’s offer to award his colleagues 50,000 dollars if Nigeria qualifies for the World Cup in Brazil. Christian Chukwu, a former Super Eagles coach,said that the offer by Emenike showed how important the player regarded the qualification of the team for the World Cup. “It is a very good gesture; if other people can emula ...

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has highlighted the importance of motivation to players as he argued that hiring foreign coaches would add little or nothing to African teams. Keshi, who featured in the symposium for the analysis of the 2012 and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cairo, Egypt, said the domestic league players are on the same level of development as the abroad based ones. The former Nige ...

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has said that his aim is to win all the remaining World Cup qualifiers as this will guarantee qualification for the Brazil 2014 event. The Eagles are tied on points in group F with Malawi who have two home Games to play. And as the Eagles take on Kenya on June 5, Keshi argued that any dropped point could spell doom for his qualification bid. “Those are crucial games. For me ...

Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike has promised to give the Super Eagles  $50,000  if Nigeria qualify for  the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The  2013 Africa Cup of Nations Golden Boot winner, who is out of next month’s World Cup qualifiers against  Kenya and Namibia due to  a fresh  injury, believes  the money will  boost the team. “I promise the whole team $50,000 if they qualify for  Brazil 2014,”  the Eagles ...

The Confederation of African Football has selected five members of the Super Eagles for the Best Eleven after Nigeria defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 on Sunday to lift the Nations Cup title for the third time. Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, defender Efe Ambrose, midfielder Mikel Obi and forwards Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike were selected to complete a team which also has Cape Verde Island’s Nando Maria Neves, M ...

Historic Super Eagles Coach Stephen Keshi has dedicated Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations triumph to all indigenous Nigerian coaches, who were treated with lack of respect by sports administrators and fans. Speaking after the Eagles defeated Burkina Faso 1-0 in the final of the tournament last night, Keshi said that he was fulfilled that his dream of putting smiles on the faces of Nigerians had come true with ...

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sent his congratulatory message to the Super Eagles, saying the amazing metamorphosis from rank outsiders to champions was a an eloquent testimony that Nigerians can achieve greater successes in other fields of human effort if they unite devotedly and  collectively in supporting his transformation agenda. “President Jonathan believes that the team’s amazing transformati ...