Pep Guardiola has said he wants to manage a national team at a major tournament before he retires from coaching. Guardiola has a contract at Manchester City until 2025 and has not ruled out signing an extension. He has previously been linked to roles with Brazil, England and the United States and said he would like to take charge at a major tournament — the World Cup, European Championship or Copa America — before the end of his career. Asked by ESPN Brasil what was left for him to achieve, Guardiola said: “A national team. I would like to train a national team for a World Cup or…
Author: ROSEMARY UGIOMOH
Porto captain Pepe has told his teammates they must be ‘perfect’ in the second leg to knock Arsenal out of the Champions League. The veteran defender, who turns 41 on Monday, rolled back the years to punish Arsenal on Wednesday as his side pulled off a shock 1-0 first-leg win. That has put Arsenal in danger of crashing out in the last 16 unless they can turn it around when the sides meet again at the Emirates on March 12. Former Real Madrid star Pepe is hoping his side can repeat what fellow Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon did last season and knock Arsenal out of Europe. “We got…
Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Ojo Olohunleke, has showered N500,000 on the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) goalkeepers as cash Gift. Enyimba’s Ojo splashed the cash gift on NPFL Goalkeepers Forum after winning silver medal at the just concluded Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. Ojo is a former youth international for Nigeria, and was called up to the Nigeria U20s for the 2015 African U-20 Championship where they became champions. In May 2018, he was called up to the Nigeria B national team for a friendly against Atlético de Madrid.[8] In May 2022, he received his first call-up to the…
Giants of African women football, Nigeria and Cameroon will be taking no prisoners when they clash in Douala on Friday for a place in the final round of the African qualifying series for this year’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. The Super Falcons, rated top in Africa and still walking with springs in their steps after reaching the Round of 16 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Down Under, exiting the finals without losing a match in regulation time, will remember at kick-off that the Indomitable Lionesses stopped their march to the London 2012 Olympics. On their part, the Lionesses…
The Nigeria senior male national basketball team, the D’Tigers, would be competing for honours at the 2025 Afrobasket qualifiers starting Friday in Monastir, Tunisia. There have been palpable concerns in the basketball community, when it seemed that the team would not be participating at the 2025 Afrobasket qualifiers window-1, due to the paucity of funds that the ministry of sports is facing. However, the Honourable Minister for Sports development, Senator John Owan Enoh, has given his consent for the NBBF leadership to do all that they can to see that the D’Tigers participate in the qualifiers, with an assurance that…
As hostilities resumes this weekend for women’s national teams on the African continent for a place in this years summer Olympic football tournament in Paris, Super Falcons and SLC Utah of USA striker, Ifeoma Onumonu, is resolute that Nigeria would not miss out of the Games, assuring that they would beat the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon over the two legs. The Super Falcons have not featured in the football tournament of the Olympics in the last three editions, with their last appearance being the 2008 Beijing Olympics in South Korea. Speaking on the match, Onumonu assured Nigerians that the Super…
Following his equaliser against Barcelona, the captain of Napoli Giovani Di Lorenzo has described Nigeria International Victor Osimhen as a huge player. Roberto Lewandoski gave Barcelona the lead in the 60th minute but Osimhen was on hand to level up for the host in the 75th minute. The first leg of the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League ended 1-1 at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium. “He’s a huge player for us,” said Napoli skipper Giovanni Di Lorenzo to Amazon Prime Video. “He’s come back with the right attitude. We knew he would though as he’s a great…
Nigeria men basketball team, D’Tigers, won’t participate in the FIBA Afrobasket Qualifiers that begins Friday, in Tunisia. According to a release by Nigeria Basketball Federation, it cited lack of funds to prepare the team for the tournament, due to the inability of the ministry of sports to provide the NBBF with the needed funds for the qualifiers. In recent times, the female and male national basketball teams have not had the best in preparations for major continental and global championships, due to the perennial lack of funds. However, the financial burden of ensuring national teams participate in these tournaments have…
Bodo/Glimt and Ajax meet in the second leg of their Europa Conference League last-32 tie on Thursday night with everything very much in the balance. In the reverse fixture last week, Ajax somehow salvaged a 2-2 draw, giving them the momentum ahead of their trip to Norway. When Ajax returned after the winter break to record three successive wins, the expectation had been that they would kick on from continuing on an upward trajectory under John van’t Schip. Although they deserve credit for a 1-1 draw with PSV Eindhoven, Ajax are now on a four-game winless streak, failing to defeat either of Heerenveen or NEC Nijmegen…
The 25-year-old Kylian Mbappe who earns €25m net in Paris will clear €15m net a season at Madrid, still making him the club’s top earner despite the huge salary cut. Mbappe has agreed terms with the Spanish club although neither Paris Saint-Germain nor Madrid will make any formal statement while both could still meet in the Champions League. Despite losing out in terms of basic wage Mbappe will be paid a sizeable signing on fee understood to be over 100m euros and will keep an 80 per cent share of image rights on any new commercial deals he signs after…