Following the disquiet that attended last week’s stakeholders meeting called by Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdulahi, to find a way forward to the lingering legal tussle in Nigerian football, fresh indications have emerged that sports authorities may have perfected a plan to set up a new ‘Nigeria Football Association’, NFA.
The last ten days have also offered up new names for football fans to enthuse over, plus elevated other better-known players to a status among the continent’s playing elite. Here are the new young stars to emerge at the CAN.
Former Super Eagles midfield maestro, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has been signed by Indian club Durgapur. Also on board is Samson Siasia who will be the coach of the team. Okocha will earn 550, 000 dollars (about N88.8m), while Siasia will take home 210,000 dollars (N33.9m).
Lowly Equatorial Guinea stunned Libya and Zambia upset Senegal as the African Nations Cup began with surprises as well as tear gas outside the stadium in Bata on Saturday.
Nigerian strikers Kelechi Osunwa and Sherif Sule were part of Sudan’s 25-man provisional squad who departed for Qatar ahead of this month’s Africa Cup of Nations.
Nigeria coach, Stephen Keshi has said he did not have a magic wand to turn the national team around under one month, but remained hopeful that the work he and other members of the technical crew were doing would soon bear fruits.
Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has warned the players against wearing ear rings as he moved to impose a new and purposeful identity on the team.
The athletics family was on Tuesday thrown into mourning with the death of Sunday Bada, the technical director, Athletics Federation of Nigeria, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi said Tuesday that Nigeria’s ouster from the London 2012 Olympics was painful. He declared 2011 was a bad year for Nigeria football.
National Under-23 Coach, Austin Eguavoen, has quit as coach of the Olympic team after he failed to qualify the team for London 2012.
