Futball Galore Media: May 2014

Friday, 30 May 2014

Nigeria Women Premier League - Week 13 Fixtures

Nasarawa Amazons vs Sunshine Queens

Mighty Jets midfielder Ayooluwa Adetola believes the Jos-based side will show no fear when they face Spotlight FC at the Katsina Township Stadium on match day 17 of the Nigeria National League.

Bayelsa Queens vs Taraba Queens
Krisdera Hotel Stadium, Omoku

1. Abia Warriors vs Gombe United
Umuahia Township Stadium, Umuahia


#	Team	P	GD	Pts
01	Sharks	16	10	30
02	Nasarawa United	16	4	27
03	Enyimba	16	5	25
04	Lobi Stars	16	1	25
05	Crown	16	-4	23
06	Kano Pillars	15	4	22
07	Sunshine Stars	16	1	22
08	Akwa United	16	1	22
09	Warri Wolves	16	-2	22
10	Taraba	16	-4	22
11	Dolphins	16	3	21
12	Abia Warriors	15	1	21
13	Giwa	15	0	21
14	El Kanemi Warriors	16	2	20
15	Heartland	16	1	20
16	Bayelsa United	14	-2	20
17	Enugu Rangers	16	-2	18
18	Kaduna United	16	-3	18
19	Gombe United	16	0	17
20	Nembe City	15	-16	14

Thursday, 29 May 2014

Nwofor Salvages Nigeria Pride

The Nigerian national team salvaged some pride with a 90th minute goal from Uche Nwofor which earned them a 2-2 draw against Scotland in an international friendly at Craven Cottage on Wednesday.

Golden Eaglets boss commends fighting spirit showed by his boys

Pos	Team	Pts	P	+/-

Nigeria Premier League - Match Day 16 Results (Wednesday)

El-Kanemi 2-0 Giwa FC

Weekend Fixtures

8 Goals
Osaguona Ighodaro (Enugu Rangers)

Super Eagles gear up for Tartan Army

Super Eagles will today begin their final phase of preparation for the Brazil 2014 World Cup with a friendly game against Scotland at the Craven Cottage London home of Fulham FC beginning the last stage of the journey to the Mundial Coupe.

Telecommunications firm, Globacom, has urged the Super Eagles to use the friendly against Scotland to perfect their strategies for a glorious outing at the World Cup.

Super Eagles duo: It's great to be back

The Super Eagles are leaving nothing to chance as preparations effectively commence on Monday night in London with the team’s first training session ahead of the World Cup in Brazil next month.

Watford and Scotland's forward Ikechi Anya has declared he has no regret dumping the Africa champions for the Tartan Army.

Nigeria head to Brazil as African champions, and with every intent of qualifying from a difficult group that includes Argentina, Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They will be targeting victories in their opening two games, and hope that their final game against Argentina is just academic.

Sponsor of the Super Eagles, Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, has concluded broadcast sponsorship arrangements to bring matches of the Brazil 2014 World Cup live to Nigerians throughout the duration of the tournament.

Adegboye Onigbinde, has paid glowing tributes to the wife of Nigeria’s football legend, Teslim ‘Thunder’ Balogun, who died 16 years ago.

Flying Eagles have said they are ready to take on surprise team Lesotho in the final round of qualifiers for the 2015 AYC in Senegal.

Nigeria Premier League - Match Day 16 And Venues

Gombe United vs Warri Wolves
Pantami Stadium, Gombe

Newly-appointed head coach of Kaduna United, Hassan Abubakar has resigned from his post as coach of the side shortly after the team returned from Jos, where they were spanked 4-0 by Giwa.

Prime end ties with Coach Abimbola

Nigeria National League outfit, Prime Football Club, have asked head coach Abimbola Samuel, to step aside till the season comes to an end.

Pos	Team	Pts	P	+/-
1	Shooting Stars	27	16	6
2	Gabros FC	26	16	1
3	Abia Comets FC	25	16	1
4	First Bank FC	24	16	3
5	Bendel Insurance FC	24	16	1
6	ABS FC	24	16	0
7	MFM FC	22	16	4
8	Ekiti United	22	16	1
9	Prime FC	22	16	0
10	Akwa Starlet FC	22	16	-3
11	Gateway United	21	16	-1
12	Stationary Stores FC	21	16	-1
13	COD United	21	16	-2
14	Go-Round FC	20	16	0
15	Remo Stars FC	19	16	-4
16	Unicem Rovers FC	17	16	-6

Nigeria National League - Week 16 Results

Pool A
DSS FC 1-0 Spotlight FC

League Table

Nigeria Premier League - Match Day 15 Results

Dolphins FC 2-0 Bayelsa United

One time Atletico Madrid Youth prospect Samson Olaleye Kayode has scored his 18th goal of the season from 12 games in the V-League.

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria secured their passage to the next round of the 2015 Africa Youth Championship qualifiers with a 6-1 aggregate score win over Tanzania after beating them 4-1 in Kaduna.

Osas Eghe joined Kogi United at the beginning of the 2013/14 Nigeria National League season, having represented TEAP FC in the past.

Seasiders to miss Mosquito, three others in weekend cracker

Warri Wolves are going to be without the services of key four players when they take on table toppers Sharks in Warri.

Saturday's second leg clash in the Africa Youth qualifiers between the Flying Eagles of Nigeria and the Tanzania under-20 team scheduled for Ahmadu Bello Stadium will be free for all.

The Nigeria Premier League match between Kano Pillars and El-Kanemi Warriors scheduled to take place at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium has been shifted from Saturday the 24th to Sunday the 25th of May.

Keshi and NPL stars to leave our shores this weekend

The Super Eagles technical crew led by Stephen Okechukwu Keshi have been scheduled to leave Nigeria on Sunday May 25th, 2014 for London to honour the international friendly match with Scotland.

The Nigeria Football Supporters’ Club has unveiled sticker aimed at mobilising support for the Super Eagles as they campaign at the World Cup in Brazil.

The second edition of the Teslim Thunder Balogun Under-15 soccer competition has begun at the Campos Mini Stadium in Lagos. The competition is open to all junior teams in Lagos State.

The Nigeria National U-15 team defeated host Botswana 2-0 in the opening game of the football event at the 2014 Africa Youth Games in Gaborone, Botswana on Thursday.

Dolphins vs Bayelsa United
Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt

NPL side on the verge of naming new boss

If leaks gathered by SL10 are anything to go by then Giwa FC, who have been under the guidance of caretaker coach Aminu Musa since sacking coach Abdulbidemi Biffo two months ago, are set to appoint Kadiri Ikhana as their new boss.

Scorer of both Kaduna United goals in yesterday's 2-2 draw against Kano Pillars, Samuel Agba, has revealed to SL10 that Pillars passed on an opportunity to sign him two seasons ago.

OGBOMOSHO UNITED VS GRAY INTERNATIONAL

Algeria vs Tunisia
Ethiopia vs Ghana
Côte d’Ivoire vs Equatorial Guinea
Rwanda vs Nigeria
Senegal vs Cameroon
Comoros vs South Africa
Zimbabwe vs Zambia

(First leg: 23-25 May; Second leg: 6-8 June)

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Nigeria Premier League - The Latest Table

#		Team	MP	W	D	L	F	A	D	P

Kaduna United 2-2 Kano Pillars

6 Goals
Adamu Mohammed (Gombe United)

Super Falcons Coach, Edwin Edem Okon has named a strong squad for Saturday's 2014 African Women's Championship qualifying game against the She-Wasps of Rwanda in Kigali.

Nigeria National League - Week 16 Fixtures

Pool A
Kwara United vs Supreme Court

Head Coach of Abia Warriors, Ladan Bosso, has tipped Michael Uche Uchebo to be a revelation at the World cup in Brazil.

Godswill Elohor Ekpolo, has benefited from the wind of change currently sweeping through Barcelona as he has put pen to paper on a three year professional deal with the Catalan giants.

AZAL midfielder William Oluremi John was one of the aces of manager Tarlan Ahmadov in the just concluded Azerbaijani Premier League, having finished the season as the club's top scorer.