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Pillars promises Kaduna United a tough game

Chairman of Kano Pillars, Tukur Babangida has promised Kaduna United a tough battle when the two teams meet in the first game of the Nigeria Premier League, November 6th.

Babangida said that despite the limited time they had to prepare for the new season; they will still give the Kaduna side a good fight for the three points.

“I am very confident of my team this season. We may have lost some players but we have capable replacements.

“We are going to Kaduna with the intention of getting the three points at stake. We know Kaduna United is also preparing very well, but we are equal to the task,” said the Chairman.

Kano Pillars defeated Kaduna United in the same fixture last season with the goal from former striker, Ahmed Musa.

http://www.npl.com.ng/news.php

ow11:
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Rooney's wages was used as a metaphor in that sentence to mean higher wages. Even Arsenal players don't earn that! However NPL players should be comfortable with between 200k and 400k if people actually paid to watch games. As it stands, I don't think the pay is horrible. As they also get winning bonuses and if they play well in Africa, they even get more bonuses.

Well i don't think the players are complaining about the amount they are paid, rather it's about how they are being owed, they hardly get paid on time, the npl authorities should look into this delays.

Pillars promises Kaduna United a tough game

Chairman of Kano Pillars, Tukur Babangida has promised Kaduna United a tough battle when the two teams meet in the first game of the Nigeria Premier League, November 6th.

Babangida said that despite the limited time they had to prepare for the new season; they will still give the Kaduna side a good fight for the three points.

“I am very confident of my team this season. We may have lost some players but we have capable replacements.

“We are going to Kaduna with the intention of getting the three points at stake. We know Kaduna United is also preparing very well, but we are equal to the task,” said the Chairman.

Kano Pillars defeated Kaduna United in the same fixture last season with the goal from former striker, Ahmed Musa.

http://www.npl.com.ng/news.php

Thanks for the thread bro, i will include stadiums and match time.

In tears, you deserve the glory!

rasputinn:
Abeg,Amuneke is not qualified to assist Siaone joor

Do you know that he has the same coaching qualification that Pep Guadiola has? but my concern is that he should be allowed to pick how many people he wants on his train.

supereagle:
I did not expect this from you. Baba Onigbinde went to W/C 2002 with 5 assistants . Siasia will always prefer to work with Kalika . NFF will equally appoint their own too.

Wetin u no expect from me? because Onigbinde went with 100 assistance, so Siasia too should go with 200 assistance? i mean can't he be ALLOWED to pick whoever he wants to work with him? they should not overcrowd the coaching position abeg, he's the head coach, he should have the right to handpick all the people who wants for himself.

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I know all the NAIRALANDERS who are fond of that, i will quote them all once they start changing their tune.

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My laptop has been with me for close to 2 years now and i am yet to take it out for repairs, this is why Nigerians are vulnerable, they always think it's 1billion item item that is "original"

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130K for laptop? u dey waste money oo, got my 320gig, 3gig ram dell vista for less than 90k (brand new), so why should you be looking at 130k?

This old papa played for U-17 in 2005? which one again?

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How many of the players told you they want Rooney's pay? how many players in the EPL earn half of what Rooney is earning?

[quote author=na_so link=topic=545910.msg7084358#msg7084358 date=1288962536]You don start to dey show your bad belle abi? The report is still a mere speculation , besides it says "second assistant" meaning after kaila.

Lagerback had eguavon, and amokachi, aside the swedish assistants he came with.

Amodu had a goalkeeper trainer, Amokachi and Fatai amao as assistants, you want more . . . .? [/quote]I asked a question, how does that automatically translate to badbelleing?

The assistant coach i needed to know isn't a goalkeeper trainer or all that, i was incline to know which other assistant coach they are trying to get him when he can as well choose whoever he wants on his team, get it?

Make una leave them oo, what did they do to una? abeg free them!

Dog wey wan lost no dey hear hunter whistle

For God's sake, how many assistant coach does he need?

medjai:
I just heard Owumi being interviewed on radio and when he was asked what the minimum wage is for players in the league, he said between 150,000 to 180,000 and it depends on how you negotiate.
If what he is saying is true, then these players are not broke at all. Most graduates out there dont earn this much. . .
Star match for the weekend
Kaduna Utd vs Kano Pillars - Saturday
Enyimba vs Ocean Boys - Sunday

I knew months ago that they earn a min of #100k.

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Fighting to be at the top now is not kinda important, as long as we are trailing them with less than 2 points, it's okay by me.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=545091.msg7082823#msg7082823 date=1288948708]Aside the 5m for the chief coach, he will be given 3m for his assistants, which he has fully powers to determine. Totally it will be 8m which to me is just fine.[/quote]Oh so you are looking at him "taking" from his assistant's fixed salary? the #3m is for the assistant and it's not to be determined by Siasia, whoever he picks automatically becomes the #3m owner, if he takes from it, then i see that as bribery (maybe he's going to go with Kalika)

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We should win this.

U-21? strange, yet to see any player with such name for Nigeria.

All glory to you alone lord

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Is that a Nigerian name?

Thank you Jesus for a life worth living even in the hard situation!

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And your new coach is Siasia!

He floored oo, he roofed oo, it's on the field of play we all go see, i am indifferent, like i said before, whoever becomes the coach i will support as long as he's a Nigerian and gives us the result we are looking for.

It may still be a long way for a Nigerian man to hit 100 caps and join the exclusive 'FIFA Century Club', which no fewer than eight Egyptians and one South African, Aaron Mokoena, have been enlisted.

The towering Nwankwo Kanu, who at the close of Nigeria's campaign at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa announced his retirement from the Super Eagles, can look back and have a sense of fulfilment.

The last game he played for Nigeria was the 2-2 draw against Korea Republic, which saw the Super Eagles out of the 2010 World Cup. It was Kanu's 86th appearance for the Super Eagles. This equalled the record caps that the late Muda Lawal had held for 25 years when the midfielder last played in an African Nations Cup qualifier against Zambia in Lusaka in 1985.

Muda had a 10-year career that spanned from January 22, 1975 when he made his debut in a 1-0 defeat of Cameroon in Lagos to August 18, 1975, when Zambia scored a last-minute goal that eliminated Nigeria at the last stage of the qualifying series for the 1986 African Nations Cup in Egypt.

The loss truncated the blossoming career of the player who had been the first African to appear in five consecutive African Nations Cup tournaments. He was at the berth of the sixth appearance when Zambian Jack Chanda's last-minute strike won the game 1-0 for the then KK Eleven, who qualified following an earlier 0-0 draw in Lagos.

Like Muda like Kanu

One glaring similarity of the two most-capped Eagles players is the fact that both were skippers. Muda Lawal came in as captain of the then Green Eagles in succession to Segun Odegbami, just as Kanu did for Austin Okocha. Both adorned jersey Number 4 in the national team, but had different numbers in their respective club sides.

They were also players with long spells in the African Nations Cup. Muda featured from 1976 to 1984, while Kanu extended his by one tournament, featuring from 2000 to 2010. That was not all for the two midfielders with great attacking instincts. In Muda Lawal's 10-year spell in the national team, he scored 11 goals while Kanu exceeded this by a goal, as his total was 12.

Some of those goals were memorable. Muda remains the only player to have opened and closed scoring in an edition of the African Nations Cup. This he did in 1980 when he scored the tournament's opening goal against Tanzania and scored the very last goal against Algeria in the final. But that is not just all for him; his goals were the last for Nigeria in final matches. He did this in 1976 scoring the winning goal in a 3-2 drubbing of Egypt in the third place match. It was that goal that started the long no-win streak that Egypt suffered in the African Nations Cup ties with Nigeria. The jinx was only broken at the Angola 2010 Nations Cup.

Similarly, Kanu scored Nigeria's equalising and winning goals against Brazil in the nail-biting semifinals encounter at the Atlanta '96 Olympics. That’s where the similarities ended.

Muda-Kanu: The contrasts

The contrasts are more intriguing. While Kanu failed to find the net in regulation time in the six editions of the African Nations Cup he featured in, Muda scored in every other edition and his goals were usually the last for Nigeria. This he did in 1976 against Egypt, 1980 against Algeria, and 1984 against Cameroon.

Muda subsequently retired from international duels. So good was Muda that he was only substituted in five of his 86 appearances. Those were the games of October 30, 1976 when Christian Madu replaced him, the African Nations Cup duel with Zambia in Accra 1978 when he was substituted by Baba Otu Mohammed, the July 18, 1981 duel with the then Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) when Bala Ali was the substitute, the September 26, 1981 friendly tie with Uganda when Muda replaced Tunji Banjo and the Olympic Games qualifier against Morocco on February 11, 1984 when he replaced Louis Igwilo.

Unlike Muda Lawal who played full time in virtually all his matches except on five instances, Kanu was a super sub who played full time only in 34 of his 86 matches. Despite both having the same number of match appearances, Muda therefore had more playing time. In Kanu’s remaining 52 matches, he was either a substitute or was substituted. But he breathed inspiration into the Super Eagles each time he got off from the bench. A new energy was put into the attacking line.

At the close of Super Eagles' 2008 African Nations Cup qualifiers campaign at the Warri Township Stadium on September 8, 2007, in the duel against Lesotho, Kanu's international appearances for Nigeria hit the milestone mark of 70. The event went unheralded. At the time, he became the third most-capped Nigerian international after Muda Lawal and Austin Okocha who had 70 on the dot.

There existed possibilities of Kanu exceeding the mark as he remarked that he would continue to play for Nigeria as long as his energy and skill didn't fail him. He was on the track of being the first Nigerian to hit the century mark.

Let's do it again

A 1975 film starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby has persistently come to mind the moment it was clear Kanu was at the brink of surpassing Muda's international appearances. Titled "Let's do it again", it was also a hit song for the Staple Singers who adapted it from the sound track of the film. Something kept echoing in the mind that Kanu could still do it.

Poor Kanu, he could have been the record holder if he had delayed his voluntary retirement by just one match, even if it was an inconsequential friendly match! He could have been the most-capped Nigerian male footballer if he had featured in some friendly matches that he failed to feature in. Like Austin Okocha before him who could also have notched up many international appearances, he kept skipping games.

One such game was the February 6, 2007 friendly with Ghana in London. Kanu sat all throughout the encounter that Ghana used to break a 15-year duck that had afflicted Black Stars' games with Nigeria. Ghana won emphatically, 4-1 to get their first defeat of Nigeria since the 2-1 triumph in the 1992 African Nations Cup semifinals in Dakar, Senegal.

A day after the London match, which incidentally had seen Ghana winning all subsequent ties with Nigeria, Kanu was notified of the impending appearance record in a chat at the Renaissance Hotel where the Super Eagles were lodged. He admitted oblivious that he had notched up 65 caps to shoot ahead of Peter Rufai's 62 and Stephen Keshi's 64. He appeared more resolute to become the first Nigerian to hit the 100th cap mark. "I will continue to play until my legs are tired,” he said, hoping to surpass Muda's record of 86 and going ahead to join the "FIFA Century Club". He met the first target, but has now missed the second.

Yobo: Nigeria's next Century Club candidate

Egypt with eight players lead the pack of the 11 African men to have clocked 100 international caps. The three others are Morocco’s Noureddine Naybet, Cameroon's Njitap Geremi and South Africa’s Aaron Mokoena who have 115, 109 and 104 caps respectively. The nearest active Super Eagles' player to hit the 100 game mark is Joseph Yobo, who perhaps unlike the preceding skippers, is more consistent. As at his last match against Guinea, he has put up 75 appearances. Twenty five more games, he will clock 100.

His consistency may as well augur well for him if he does not start picking matches to feature in as did Okocha in the last two years of his career when the erstwhile Eagles' skipper played just six of 23 matches.

In contrast, Yobo is the player that played every match, every minute of Nigeria's 22 African Nations Cup matches from 2002 to 2008. But for the injury he had in Nigeria's second match of the 2010 Nations Cup that ruled him out of the tournament, he would have extended his international matches to 79 matches by now and just few games to overtake Muda and Kanu.

Congrats, Maureen Mmadu, Nigeria's first Century Club member

It is becoming clearer that the women's folk hold a better record for sports in Nigeria. While one's mind is hardly at rest each time the Super Eagles take on any opposition, no matter how weak, games involving the ladies are watched with greater respite. That was the situation when the Falconets were on duty at Germany 2010 and got to the final. The Flamingos who reached the quarterfinals of the Under-17 tournament also did Nigeria proud. Little wonder then that it is a woman footballer that first hit the 100 international match records and the only African woman footballer enlisted in the exclusive FIFA Century Club.

According to FIFA’s record last updated on August 5, 2010, Maureen Mmadu has 101 caps to rank 125th in the world. But as it is, she remains unsung at home. This is a direct result of the glaring absence of sports data in the country.

KANU ‘S RECORD EQUALING 86 CAPS

5 May 1994 (F-Stockholm) Sweden 3-1 Nigeria
25 May 1994 (F-Bucharest) Romania 2-0 Nigeria (sub)
16 Nov. 1994(F-Wembley) England 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
21 Oct. 1995 (Afro Asian Cup-Tashkent) Uzbekistan 2-3 Nigeria
10 Nov. 1995 (Afro Asian- Lagos) Nigeria 1-0 Uzbekistan 0 (sub)
17 Aug. 1997 (WCq-Conakry) Guinea 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
22 Apr. 1998 (F-Cologne) Germany 1-0 Nigeria
5 June 1998 (F-Amsterdam) Holland 5-1 Nigeria (sub)
19 June 1998 (WC-Paris) Bulgaria 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
24 June 1998(WC-Toulouse) Paraguay 3-1 Nigeria
28 June 1998 (WC-Paris) Denmark 4 -1Nigeria (sub)
23. Jan 2000 (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 4-2 Tunisia
28. Jan. 2000. (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 0-0 Congo
3 Feb.2000 (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 2-0 Morocco
7 Feb. 2000. (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 2-1 Senegal
10 Feb. 2000 (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 2-0 South Africa
13. Feb.2000 (ACN-Lagos) Nigeria 2 -2 Cameroon (3-4 penalty-shootout).
9 April 2000 (WCq-Asmara) Eritrea 0-0 Nigeria
22 April 2000 (WCq-Lagos) Nigeria 4 -0 Eritrea (sub)
17 June 2000 (WCq-Lagos) Nigeria 2-0 Sierra Leone
9 July 2000 (WCq-Monrovia) Liberia 2 -1 Nigeria
27 Jan. 2001 (WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 3-0 Sudan (sub) 11 Mar. 2001 (WCq-Accra) Ghana 0-0 Nigeria
21 Apr. 2001 (WCq-Freetown) Sierra Leone 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
5 May 2001 (WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 2 -0 Liberia
1 July 2001 (WCq-Ombdurman) Sudan 0 -4 Nigeria (sub)
29 July 2001 (WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 3 -0 Ghana
21 Jan. 2002 (ANC-Bamako) Algeria 0 -1 Nigeria (sub)
24 Jan. 2002 (ANC-Bamako) Mali 0 - 0 Nigeria
28 Jan. 2002 (ANC-Mopti) Liberia 0 -1 Nigeria
3 Feb. 2002 (ANC-Bamako) Ghana 0 -1 Nigeria
7 Feb. 2002 (ANC-Bamako) Senegal 2 -1 Nigeria
9 Feb. 2002 (ANC-Mopti) Mali 0 -1 Nigeria (sub)
26 Mar. 2002 (F-London) Paraguay 1 -1 Nigeria
17 Apr. 2002 (F-Aberdeen) Scotland 1 -2 Nigeria
16 May 2002 (F-Dublin) Ireland 1-2 Nigeria
2 June 2002 (WC-Ibaraki) Argentina 1- 0 Nigeria (sub)
7 June 2002 (WC-Kobe) Sweden 2 -1 Nigeria (sub)
25 May 2003 (F-Lagos) Jamaica 3 -2 Nigeria
7 June 2003 (ANCq - Abuja) Nigeria 4 -1 Malawi
11 June 2003 (F - Abuja) Nigeria 0-3 Brazil (sub)
26 July 2003 (F-Watford) Venezuela 0-1 Nigeria
27 Jan 2004 (ANC- Monastir) Morocco 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
31 Jan 2004 (ANC- Monastir) South Africa 0-4 Nigeria (sub)
4 Feb. 2004(ANC-Sfax) Benin 1-2 Nigeria
8 Feb. 2004(ANC-Monastir) Cameroon 1-2 Nigeria (sub)
11 Feb. 2004(ANC-Rades) Tunisia 1-1 Nigeria (6-3 pens) (sub)
13 Feb. 2004(ANC-Monastir) Mali 1-2 Nigeria (sub)
9 Oct. 2004(WCq-Libreville) Gabon 1-1 Nigeria (sub)
26 Mar. 2005(WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 2-0 Gabon (sub)
5 June 2005(WCq-Kigali) Rwanda 1-1 Nigeria (sub)
18 June 2005(WCq-Kano) Nigeria 1-1 Angola (sub)
17 Aug. 2005(F-Tripoli) Libya 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
4 September 2005 (WCq-Oran) Algeria 2 -5 Nigeria (sub)
8 October 2005 (WCq-Abuja) Nigeria 5 -1 Zimbabwe (sub)
16 November 2005 (F-Bucharest) Romania 3-0 Nigeria (sub)
23 January 2006 (ANC-Port Said) Ghana 0 -1 Nigeria (sub)
27 January 2006 (ANC-Port Said) Zimbabwe 0 -2 Nigeria (sub)
31 January 2006 (ANC-Port Said) Senegal 1-2 Nigeria (sub)
4 February 2006 (ANC-Port Said) Tunisia 1 - 1 Nigeria (5-6 pens) (sub)
7 February 2006 (ANC-Alexandria) Cote d’Ivoire 1 – 0 Nigeria (sub
9 February 2006 (ANC-Cairo) Senegal 0 -1 Nigeria (sub)
2 September 2006 (ANCq-Abuja) Nigeria 2 - 0 Niger (sub)
8 October 2006 (ANCq-Maseru) Lesotho 0 - 1 Nigeria (sub)
24 March 2007 (ANCq-Abeokuta) Nigeria 1- 0 Uganda (sub)
27 May 2007 (F- Nairobi) Kenya 0 -1 Nigeria (sub)
2 June 2007 (ANCq- Kampala) Uganda 2 -1 Nigeria
17 June 2007 (ANCq- Niamey) Niger 1-3 Nigeria (sub)
25 August 2007 (F- Skopje) Macedonia 0 -0 Nigeria
8 September 2007 (ANCq- Warri) Nigeria 2 -0 Lesotho
21 January 2008 (ANC) – Sekondi) Cote d’Ivoire 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
27 May 2008 (F – Graz) Austria 1-1 Nigeria
1 June 2008 (WCq – Abuja) Nigeria 2-0 South Africa (sub)
7 June 2008 (WCq- Freetown) Sierra Leone 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
14 June 2008 (WCq- Malabo) Equatorial Guinea 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
21 June 2008 (WCq- Abuja) Nigeria 2-0 Equatorial Guinea (sub)
19 November 2008 (F-Cali) Colombia 1-0 Nigeria (sub)
11 February 2009 (F-London) Jamaica 0-0 Nigeria (sub)
2 June 2009 (F-St. Etienne) France 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
7 June 2009 (WCq-Abuja) Nigeria 3-0 Kenya (sub)
20 June 2009 (WCq-Rades) Tunisia 0-0 Nigeria (sub)
6 September 2009 (WCq-Abuja) Nigeria 2-2 Tunisia (sub)
12 January 2010 (ANC-Benguela) Egypt 3-1 Nigeria (sub)
30 January 2010 (ANC-Benguela) Algeria 0-1 Nigeria (sub)
25 May 2010 (F- Alpenstadion) Saudi Arabia 0 – 0 Nigeria (sub)
6 June 2010 (F – Tembisa, S/Africa) Korea DPR 1 – 3 Nigeria (sub)
22 June 2010 (WC – Durban) Korea Republic 2 – 2 Nigeria (sub)

KANU’S INTERNATIONAL GOALS -12
21 Oct 1995 (Afro Asian Cup-Tashkent) Uzbekistan 2 -3 Nigeria (1)
5 June 1998 (F-Amsterdam) Holland 5-1 Nigeria 1 (1-Pen)
22 April 2000 (WCq-Lagos) Nigeria 4-0 Eritrea (1)
9 July 2000 (WCq-Monrovia) Liberia 2-1 Nigeria (1)
27 Jan 2001 (WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 3 -0 Sudan (1)
5 May 2001 (WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria 2-0 Liberia (1)
25 May 2003 (F-Lagos) Jamaica 3-2 Nigeria (1)
7 June 2003 (ANCq - Abuja) Nigeria 4-1 Malawi (2)
26 Mar 2005(WCq-Port Harcourt) Nigeria2-0 Gabon (1)
8 October 2005 (WCq-Abuja) Nigeria 5-1 Zimbabwe (1)
17 June 2007 (ANCq- Niamey) Niger 1-3 Nigeria (1)

http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria50/news/101104/At_last_Kanu_equals_Muda_Lawals_record

Cash squeeze at Ocean Boys

These are certainly not the best of times for Nigeria Premier League (NPL) side, Ocean Boys.

The club is in dire financial straits with just days to the start of the 2010/11 NPL season.

None of the players at the club received a dime as sign on fees last season and this current campaign appears to be following the same trend.

Four of the players, striker, Charles Omokaro, attacking midfielder, Ayo Saka Ajani, and goalkeepers, Femi Thomas and Akpakpan Iboro Richard said the situation at the club was far from Ideal but they were all hoping things would improve in the coming days.

“What can we do…we just have to keep on playing and working with the hope that things would get better,” Thomas said, sentiments shared by his teammates.

“But we want our sponsors to know that as professionals, we deserve to be paid as at when due.

Most of us are breadwinners and if we are not paid, we will not be able to live up to our responsibilities. We hope we get paid soonest,” he said.

Ocean Boys travel to Aba on Sunday to face the champions, Enyimba in their opening fixture of the season.

http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/101104/Cash_squeeze_at_Ocean_Boys

I need 20 clean sheets - Odah


Sharks keeper, Okiemute Odah has highlighted the importance of a solid backline if his side is to effectively challenge for honours in the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) in the coming season.

Sharks had an underwhelming campaign last term, narrowly avoiding relegation as they shipped in goals at will.

Odah says that aspect of the team’s game must change as they seek to win the league for the first time.

“I sincerely believe we can win the league this season. We have some very good players and the core of the team is till together,” Odah told SuperSport.com.

“I also believe we will begin the season very well because unlike the other 19 teams in the league, we have been playing competitively in the Wafu Cup. That will really give us a good head start,” he said.

Sharks have been quite impressive in the Wafu Cup where they have been installed as the firm favourites to win the title following their impressive six-nil annihilation of the Ivoirian side, Stella Club d’Ajdame.

Sharks are now in the last four of the competition, and they owe much to their outstanding goalkeeping genius who has been full of spectacular dare devil saves in the course of the competition.

“I know I have done well but it is a team game and my teammates especially strikers like (Ebitimi) Agogo (Bright) Ejike and Victor Ezeji. They are the ones who have been scoring all the goals to help us get to where we are in the Wafu cap,” Odah said.

The agile shot stopper is now desperate to transfer his good form to the Nigeria Premier League.

“We disappointed our fans last season and we must make sure things go better this time this season.

As the last man in defence, all eyes is always on the keeper…I am used to pressure and I will continue to do my best, I am aiming to get at least twenty clean sheets this season,” he said.

http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/101104/I_need_20_clean_sheets_Odah

Heartland Football Club head coach, Samson Siasia, has been appointed as the Super Eagles head coach by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The news of the appointment of a substantive coach was broken by the Nigerian FA just few minutes before 6pm Nigerian time.

According to a communiqué released by the country’s football governing body at the end of the interview process on Thursday, the executive arm accepted the recommendations of the technical committee chaired by Chris Green.

“After careful deliberation, the Nigeria Football Federation has accepted the recommendation of the technical committee that Samson Siasia be appointed as head coach of the Super Eagles subject to a contract to be executed in a couple of days,” the communiqué stated.

Green in a brief interview with SuperSport.com said the appointment of Siasia had nothing to do with the clamour of the Nigerian football populace but that the Heartland gaffer emerged as favourites after Thursday’s interview in Abuja ahead of former Togo coach, Stephen Keshi.

“He impressed the whole of the committee with his style and plans for Nigerian football. It is not to say that the other candidate did not do well but considering the purview of what we wanted he showed that he is qualified for the job.

“So it is not about the pressure that was exerted on the committee or the board from the outside. Yes, Nigerians called for him to be named coach but I will say he showed he wanted the job during the interview,” Green said.

The appointment of Siasia brings to an end a long wait by the coach in becoming the manager of Nigeria’s men national team.

Siasia had previously handled the men’s under20s and under23s.

It is, however, unclear if Siasia will continue in his present position as gaffer of Nigeria Premier League (NPL) side, Heartland.

http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria/news/101104/NFF_names_Siasia_as_Eagles_coach

Ok, i just heard too,



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