Nwankwo Kanu, Super Eagles’ captain has charged the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to embark on early preparation for the team if the country must have a good outing at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .

It was a good thing that our Eagles have picked the ticket to South Africa even though the way and manner we got the ticket was questionable.
Those charged with the responsibility of managing our football should think of injecting new and dependable players into the team. Unlike what was the practice during the qualifying series, no matter where the set of players come from, be they all Ibos, Ijaws, Hausas they must be given the chance to positively represent this great country.

By Patrick Omorodion
*Ngerem, Gara-Gombe fault Ndanusa’s ambition
A few days after the Super Eagles managed to qualify for football’s biggest fiesta, the World Cup which holds in Africa for the first time next year, and calmed the nerves of Nigerians who are passionate about the game, a new crisis capable of rocking sports to its foundation [...]

Former First Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA board, Richard Nwabufo Obienu has advised against sacking Super Eagles Chief Coach, Shaibu Amodu, saying it is too early, especially coming only a few days after he qualified Nigeria for the 2010 World Cup.
The Enugu based lawyer described as unpatriotic and unrealistic calls by Nigerians for the sacking of the man who just picked the World Cup ticket for the country in Nairobi, Kenya barely a week ago.

Former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima says sacking Super Eagles Chief coach Shaibu Amodu will not take Nigerian football out of the woods.

Gabros FC proprietor, Chief Gabriel Chukwuma believes it would be a waste of fund and effort hiring a foreign coach to take Nigeria to the World Cup next year, saying past effort in the same direction had done little or no good for the Eagles. He suggested that Nigerians should have faith in Amodu,the man who did much to ensure Nigeria qualified for the first World Cup in African and should be allowed to carry out the job to a logical conclusion.

All roads lead to the Tafawa Balewa Square cricket oval this weekend as top flight cricket returns with matches of the Iris Smart Technologies CCC league taking the centre stage.

An eighty man contingent arrived Lagos Thursday night from Ghana to participate in the 2009 Nigeria-Ghana International Tennis Tournament beginning this weekend at the Ikoyi Club 1938, Tennis Section.

Top players play worse against Tiger Woods. You can measure it, which is what Northwestern professor Jennifer Brown did. Her conclusion, related in Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex blog, is that players don’t believe they can win when Woods is in the field, resulting in worse performance.

Ibori Golf and Country Club, Asaba will witness one hell of a golf tournament as the 2009 edition of the Governor’s Cup tees off on Tuesday with over 80 professional players.