Soccer Talk

MOST NIGERIAN soccer fans can’t be seriously bothered about the Super Eagles last qualifying game for the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals because Gernot Rohr’s boys have already secured their visa to Russia. Therefore, it won’t be a surprise if many choose...

THE FIRST TIME Nigeria qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals in 1993 (ahead of the finals at USA ’94), I was right in the thick of the action.
As editor of Complete Football magazine at the time, I travelled extensively with the Super Eagles coached by Clemens Westerhof and captained by the late Stephen Keshi. It was on the eve of our final qualifying game away to Algeria that I coined the...

I WASN’T going to write a preview of the Super Eagles World Cup qualifier against Zambia this weekend at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo.
My thinking was, what is there to analyse when everybody knew already what was going to happen.
Oh, who says he/she doesn’t know what is going to happen? You, dear reader? Com’on! Of course, you know what is going to happen. The Super Eagles are going to beat the Zambians and qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Finals. THAT is what is going to...

FOUR Nigerian football fans are enjoying a holiday of a lifetime in London courtesy of Star Lager after emerging the lucky winners of an online quiz to predict the premium drink’s next big European club partners.
Star winners: L-R , Ugochukwu Jay Chikezie, Onyedika Nwokedike, Nneamaka Anyanwu and Chinedu Jude Mbanefo...