Team Of The Week Honours For Huddersfield's Billing, Chelsea Loanee Abraham
Published: November 28, 2018
Two players of Nigerian descent on the radar of the Nigeria Football Federation, Huddersfield Town's Philip Billing and Aston Villa's Tammy Abraham, have been named to the Premier League and Championship Team of the Week. Football statistics website Whoscored picked Billing as one of the two central midfielders in a...
Top Scoring Nigerian In England's Top Four Tiers, Maja & One-Time NFF Target Score For EFL Clubs
Published: November 28, 2018
Catch up on the Nigerian players that were on target in matches in the English Football League on Tuesday, November 27. In League One, Sunderland maintained their second position in the standings after registering a 4-2 win vs Barnsley at the Stadium of Light. In the 20th minute, Josh Maja put the Black Cats in f...
'Super Falcons Have Been Practicing Penalties At Training' - Nigeria Coach After Win Vs Cameroon
Published: November 28, 2018
Super Falcons manager Thomas Dennerby was delighted that his side are through to final of the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations following their shootout win against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon in Accra on Tuesday evening. With the Super Falcons stars converting all their penalty kicks, the Swedish coach rev...
Photo Confirmation : Nigerian Midfielder Pens New Contract With Chelsea
Published: November 27, 2018
Very promising Nigerian midfielder Faustino Anjorin has been rewarded with a new deal by Premier League giants Chelsea, allnigeriasoccer.com reports. Anjorin is widely regarded as the best young talent of Nigerian descent currently on the books of the Stamford Bridge outfit and it was a foregone conclusion that he ...
Highly-Rated Brentford Defender Odubajo Pledges Future To Nigeria Over England
Published: November 27, 2018
Allnigeriasoccer.com has been informed that Brentford star Moses Odubajo has opted to commit his international future to Nigeria over his country of birth, England. The versatile fullback has long been on the radar of the Nigeria Football Federation and was first approached to represent the Dream Team back in 2014 ...
Five Talking Points From Super Falcons Win Vs Cameroon : Injury Worries; Game-Changers Needed; Excellent Defensive Unit
Published: November 27, 2018
African champions, Nigeria's Super Falcons on Tuesday defeated Cameroon 4-2 on penalties in the first semifinals to reach the final of the 2018 CAF Women's Nations Cup in Ghana.Izuchukwu Okosi looks at the talking points from Nigeria's hard earned victory.1. Nigeria Struggled With Cameroon's PhysicalityInitially the Su...
Super Falcons Player Ratings Vs Cameroon : High Marks For Oluehi, Ebere, Ebi, Ayinde; Oshoala Silent; Okobi Struggles; Oparanozie Starved
Published: November 27, 2018
Rivers Angels shot stopper Tochukwu Oluehi was the heroine as the Super Falcons of Nigeria defeated Cameroon 4-2 on penalties to qualify for the final of the 2018 Africa Women's Cup of Nations (AWCON) on Tuesday night. Oluehi saved one kick in the shootout after the game wasn't decided after 120 minutes. It was a go...
Cameroon 0 Nigeria 0 (2-4 On Penalties) : Oshoala, Ebi, Ajibade, Ebere Score In Shootout As Falcons Qualify For World Cup
Published: November 27, 2018
Tochukwu Oluehi emerged the heroine as Nigeria qualified for the final of the 2018 Africa Women's Cup of Nations (AWCON) following a 4-2 penalty shootouts win over Cameroon at the Accra Sports Stadium on Tuesday evening.The semi final game ended 0-0 at the end of 90 minutes. The extra time of 30 minutes failed to produ...
UYL: Real Madrid's Akinlabi Bags Assist; Juventus' Iweru Solid; Man City's Nmecha, Ogbeta Crash Out
Published: November 27, 2018
How players of Nigerian descent fared on match day five of the UEFA Youth League on Tuesday, November 27. Manchester City won't be able to progress to the knockout rounds of the competition following their 2-0 loss to Olympique Lyon at Groupama OL Academy Décines-Charpieu. There were starts for defender Nathanae...
Official: Amarikwa Retained As Montreal Impact Announce Roster Decisions
Published: November 27, 2018
Nigerian striker Quincy Amarikwa is among the players retained by Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact following the conclusion of the regular season. The California-born frontman was traded by the Earthquakes to Montreal Impact in exchange for Dominic Oduro in August 2018. The 31-year-old Amarikwa started se...
Nigerian Starlets Partner Arsenal Captain Koscielny In Defense In 5-0 Loss To Derby PL2
Published: November 27, 2018
Arsenal were humiliated 5-0 by Derby County in the Premier League 2 on Monday with five players of Nigerian descent in action for the Gunners at Loughborough University Football Stadium. The Gunners three-man defense was made up of Joseph Olowu, Tolaji Bola and first-team captain Laurent Koscielny, who was making a ...
Most Represented Origins In English Premier League: Nigeria Second In Africa, 16th In The World
Published: November 27, 2018
In its latest post,  CIES Football Observatory has ranked countries according to the number of domestic league minutes played by their representatives in the big-5 European Leagues made up of the English Premier League, La Liga, German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1 and Italian Serie A. Players representing eighty-five ...
Rohr DENIES Reports Of Rift With Key Super Eagles Midfielder Eddy Onazi
Published: November 27, 2018
Super Eagles manager Gernot Rohr has denied speculations in the local media that there is an ongoing rift between himself and Trabzonspor midfielder Eddy Onazi. Onazi was a late withdrawal from the Nigeria squad for the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Libya in October citing injury, only for the midfielder to...
Versatile Midfielder Set To Depart Chelsea After Eight Years
Published: November 27, 2018
EFL League One club Charlton Athletic have handed a trial to versatile Chelsea midfielder Charlie Wakefield with a view to a transfer. The 20-year-old started and went the distance for the Addicks U23 team in a 4-0 loss to Crystal Palace in the Professional Development League on Monday afternoon. Wakefield is th...
Oshoala, Ebi, Oluehi Named In CAF's Best XI Of AWCON Group Stages; Oparanozie, Ordega In Substitutes List
Published: November 27, 2018
Current Africa Women's Footballer of the Year Asisat Oshoala and the duo of Onome Ebi and Tochukwu Oluehi are three Super Falcons players who have been named in the CAF Best XI for the group stage of the 2018 CAF Africa Women's Nations Cup holding in Ghana.Oshoala fired blanks in Nigeria's first game of the tournament,...