Nigerian Football

Ndidi Should Keep Improving, Says Odegbami

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7 years ago

May 8, 2017

BY B0LAJI OKUNOLA

Legendary former Nigerian striker, Segun Odegbami has urged fast rising Winfred Ndidi to keep increasing his pace. Ndidi was on the score sheet for Leicester City at the weekend in the 3-0 defeat of Watford.
It was the midfielder’s second goal in the English Premier League. Odegbami, in a telephone conversation with Sports Village Square, advised Ndidi to keep improving and get more focused for the tasks ahead.
The former dashing right winger remarked that Ndidi is still ‘work in progress’ when compared with the other regular Super Eagles’ players jostling for recall for next month’s fixture with South Africa.
“Ndidi is a good player. I mean for him to have featured in several occasion for the Super Eagles has shown how great he is. But I still see him as an upcoming and future star compared to the senior boys.
Although he scored in his last game while representing the EPL defending champion, but he still need to step up his game so as to rub shoulders with his senior colleagues in current Eagles team.”
“Hyping him based on a single goal won’t help him. Anyone can score in a football game. I am sure he is still have more to learn.”
In a similar vein, “Mathematical Odegbami” as he was fondly called in his playing days, kept mute on his opinion about Ndidi making Coach Gernot Rohr final list for next month AFCON qualifier encounter.
“I have nothing to say about his inclusion on Rohr list. The coach knows best and who am I to dictate for him.”
The 20 year old has been involved in the last five matches contested by the super Eagles, and started the World Cup qualifier against Zambia and the recent friendly with Senegal.

Nigerian Football

GTI enlarges coast…spreads from League fund-raising to Federation Cup

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3 mins ago

April 19, 2024

Kunle Solaja

BY KUNLE SOLAJA.

Strategic partners of the Nigeria Football Federation, GTI Asset Management and Trust Ltd has expanded their scope of operations from fund sourcing for the Nigeria Premier League to adding the responsibility of getting the national cup competition back into its glamorous days.

The MD of the company, Abubakar Lawal at the unveiling a revamped Federation Cup which has been renamed President Federation Cup remarked that his company decided to take a bold step to support the national cup.

“I am the happiest man today, he said in the opening remark of the rebranding of the national cup through signing of Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Sports and the NFF.

“Our company is also strategically involved in ensuring that the President Federation Cup is given necessary attention to thrive using The Nigeria Football Fund (TNFF) as our vehicle to actualise this dream.

“Therefore, it is our vision that the oldest domestic football event becomes one of the best organised football events in the world in no distant future.”

Nigerian Football

Ikenne’s Beyond Limit Football Academy top goal chart as NNL releases vital statistics

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Kunle Solaja

The secretariat of the Nigeria National League has released the match statistics of the four conferences of the 2024 season.

With 198 matches so far played in Conferences A and B, 426 goals were scored, with 125 home wins and 26 away wins, representing 63.1%, & 26% respectively. There were 47 draw matches, representing 23.7% of matches. 299 home goals were scored, and 127 home goals.

Beyond Limit FC scored the highest goals of 33 goals, with Stormers FC and Ekiti United conceeding the least goals of 28 goals. Tradesafe and Solution FC scored the least numbers of goals of 11 goals and Osun conceded the least numbers of goals of 8.

In group C & D, 209 goals have been scored in the 106 so far played, with 70 home wins and 14 won away representing 66. 3% and 13.1% respectively.

Teams drew 31 matches representing 29.2% of the matches played. Wikki Tourists scored the highest numbers of goals, with 23 goals, while EFCC FC conceded the least numbers of goals. They conceded 18 goals. Nasarawa United’s 8 goals conceded made them the team that conceded the lowest numbers of goals, while ABS scored the least number of goals of 5 goals.

Nigerian Football

Heartland back to their homeland as they host Shooting Stars

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Kunle Solaja

BY TOSIN OMOJOLA, OWERRI

The uncertainty surrounding our Matchday 31 encounter against Heartland FC of Owerri, has been cleared with the game eventually slated to hold at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, the home ground of the host team

The Nigeria Premier League has given the approval to the stadium after an inspection was carried out on Wednesday afternoon.

The Oluyole Warriors have since arrived the Imo State capital and have settled down ahead of Friday’s clash which will be be shown live on cable television.

Meanwhile, the Technical Adviser of the Ibadan soccer lords, Gbenga Ogunbote, while addressing the players on arrival at their hotel, urged them not to be distracted by the development.

“I want to apologise to you on the change of venue. We got to know about it some hours ago, but be that as it may, I want us to remain focused as and get the desired results we needed”.

In the same vein, the players of the Ibadan soccer lords, said they are not in any way moved by the change of venue, expressing their readiness to get the maximum points, not minding the venue.