Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By N athan Gadugah We are back again! Back to base. An ignominious return to the foreign-local coach banter all over again. Only this time we have decorated the monkey and given it a new name-technical advisor- instead of the head coach we all know. Who are we deceiving? Who is the FA deceiving? Nobody but […]
John Terry has backed Chelsea team-mate Didier Drogba to be a success on his return to the Premier League. The Ivory Coast striker is back at Stamford Bridge after signing a one-year deal last month. Drogba, 36, scored 157 goals in 342 games in his first spell with the club, which spanned eight years. Terry, […]
By Tunde Eludini Team Nigeria to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, finished eighth on the final medal tables for the multi sports event. A string of silver medals on the penultimate day of the competition and the stripping of teenage Weightlifter, Chika Amalaha, denied Team Nigeria from making history at the tournament. The […]
by Grant Jarvie Chair of Sports, Univ. of Edinburgh With the end of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, it is tempting to suggest that its success might just have saved the event. Certainly what has not been in question is that its future has been in doubt in recent years. For one thing, the number […]
Rank Team Pts +/- Pos 1 Spain 1485 0 Equal 2 Germany 1300 0 Equal 3 Brazil 1242 1 Up 4 Portugal 1189 -1 Down 5 Argentina 1175 2 Up 6 Switzerland 1149 2 Up 7 Uruguay 1147 -1 Down 8 Colombia 1137 -3 Down 9 Italy 1104 0 Equal 10 England 1090 1 Up […]
Group A Brazil Croatia Mexico Cameroon Group B Spain Netherlands Chile Australia Group C Colombia Greece Côte d’Ivoire Japan Group D Uruguay Costa Rica England Italy Group E Switzerland Ecuador France Honduras Group F Argentina Bosnia and Herzegovina Iran Nigeria Group G Germany Portugal Ghana USA Group H Belgium Algeria Russia Korea Republic Cameroon […]
Anthony Mundine’s world title hopes took a potentially fatal hit and raised questions over his boxing future after he was knocked down five times in a 12-round points loss to Joshua Clottey last Wednesday. Mundine, the third-ranked fighter in the WBA’s International super welterweight division, was felled twice in the sixth and once in the […]
Unified again and yearning for another deep run at the World Cup, Cameroon is looking recapture the good old days. A disappointing display at the last World Cup – losses to the Netherlands, Japan and Denmark – are behind them. A positive outlook for Brazil is straight ahead. ”In South Africa, we completely veered off […]
Anthony Mundine’s world title hopes took a potentially fatal hit and raised questions over his boxing future after he was knocked down five times in a 12-round points loss to Joshua Clottey last Wednesday. Mundine, the third-ranked fighter in the WBA’s International super welterweight division, was felled twice in the sixth and once in the […]
By Olawale Ajimotokan Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Monday enunciated the bonus breakdown for the Super Eagles and their officials for the FIFA World Cup which begins in Brazil in June . The summary was contained in the financial estimates presented before the Hon Godfrey Gaiya led House Sports Committee by the Secretary General of the […]