One-time African Footballer of the Year and Barcelona winger Emmanuel Amuneke has been invited by FIFA for a technical advisory panel meeting in Doha, Qatar.The two-day working meeting will begin Thursday.SCORENigeria gathered that Amuneke’s invitation was signed by former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who is now FIFA chief of global football development.The former Super Eagles…
Former Enyimba defender Ifeanyi Anaemena says Saudi Arabia is a ‘good place for me to start my football outside Nigeria’, after he completed a move to first division side Al Nahda. Last week, the 29-year-old Anaemena joined the Saudi second-tier side on a one-year deal from Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) outfit Rivers United. It…
The Nigerian striker has been a joy to watch for fans of La Union and his compatriots back home, but it has emerged that there is jubilation among his former employees in his excellent performances Umar Sadiq scored his second league goal of the season to help Almeria return to winning ways with a fine…
The three-time African champions will be missing key men when they take on the Blue Sharks, but the remaining players have an added motivation to emerge victorious aside from the three points at stake Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been promised a whopping sum of ₦20m if they beat Cape Verde in their second game of…
Former Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo has revealed he opted to join Everton and not go to Italian giants Juventus in his hey days. “I had a lot of options after the 2002 World Cup with Nigeria and didn’t originally consider Everton. I expected to join Juventus,” Yobo told the Everton website. “My agent said…
Through a press release, Nigeria Football Federation have confirmed that Chelsea academy product Ola Aina will not be available for selection when the Super Eagles face off with Cape Verde in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, September 7, just as allnigeriasoccer.com exclusively reported two days ago. Apart from the Torino defender, seven United Kingdom-based players have…
Super Eagles forward Kelechi Iheanacho has backed his colleagues in the national team to step up and get the job done in faraway Cape Verde in his abse The Leicester City striker will miss the world cup qualifying tie alongside other UK-based players due to UK Covid-19 restrictions on travels. Iheanacho who opened his 2022…
Karim Adeyemi was on target on his debut appearance for Germany’s senior national team against Armenia on Sunday.The 19 year old was included in coach Hansi Flick’s squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying match and he justified his selection. Adeyemi was thrown into the thick of the action in the 72nd minutes. He…
The Sporting Director of Belgian Jupiler League side KRC Genk, Dimitri De Condé has revealed that the Club did everything possible to sell Paul Onuachu last transfer window. Condé said the striker made his wish to leave the Club known, but somehow they just couldn’t do the deal.Onuachu scored 35 goals for Genk last season…
