Nigerian Football

DOMBRAYE TARGETS COACHING JOB WITH AMBITIOUS NPFL CLUB

Published

5 years ago

November 29, 2018

Former Nigerian youth international, Eddy Lord Dombraye says he’s now at the ready to coach any ambitious Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club side following his stint in Europe after acquiring the most sought-after UEFA coaching badges.

Dombraye, who recently completed his UEFA A + B course in addition to the UEFA C License of 2016, said he was challenged to offer his expertise and experience having cut his teeth on the domestic scene before his sojourn in Europe.

“I think I’m ready to come back home and coach any of the top teams in the NPFL,” explains Dombraye who was second top scorer in the league exactly two decades ago in 1998.

“I have two UEFA coaching licenses now and currently , I’m attached to the youth team of FC Arsenal Kyiv here in Ukraine but it is my strong desire to come down to coach in Nigeria in other to contribute my quota to the growth of the NPFL.”

The former Bendel Insurance of Benin and Iwuanyanwu Nationale striker further said he was impressed with the calibre of young coaches presently with several NPFL side, adding he was ready for the rough and tumble job.

“I love everything about coaching and I know there is a world of difference between coaching in Africa and Europe but what counts at the end of the day is the result,” insists Dombraye who recently marked his 39th anniversary on November 11.

“ I have solid experience playing back home in Nigeria before going to Europe and I’m very impressed with what the likes of Fidelis Ilechukwu did with MFM as well as what Kennedy Boboye and Imama Amapakabo did respectively with Plateau United and Rangers by winning the NPFL title.

“I will like to replicate that with any other club and that should tell anybody the kind of mentality that I’m coming back with and I want a chance with any ambitious side.

“ I’ve had one or two offers from Nigeria but they are not the kind of clubs I would like to work with; I’m an ambitious person and I want to work with a club that can matches my ambition,” declares Dombraye who was a double winner of both WAFU Cup and CAF Cup with Bendel Insurance in 1993 and 1994 respectively.

Nigerian Football

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

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18 hours 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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2 days 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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2 days 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.