Elizabeth Loisel, former France and China women’s team coach, is one of the front runners to succeed Eucharia Uche as manager of the Nigeria women’s team the Super Falcons

The Nigerian home base Super Eagles today failed to devour the Palancas Negras of Angola in a friendly match played at the Abuja National Stadium.

Manchester City’s Vincent Kompany has forecast an “unprecedented wave” of red cards following his sending off against Manchester United.

Super Eagles boss Stephen Okechukwu Keshi has once again assured home based professionals that the era when they were used as training materials in the national team was gone and buried.

Former NFA Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, says the idea of raising a home-grown national team, should be commended, even as he asked the players to take their friendly games seriously.

Despite the unstable socio-political situation in the country, the national team currently in camp preparing for the 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Rwanda say they are battle ready to devour Angola in today’s international friendly.

A 39-man contingent of the 2012 African Cup of Nations-bound Palancas Negras of Angola arrived in the Federal Capital, Abuja on Tuesday ahead of today’s international friendly game against the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

MICHEL PLATINI has told Lionel Messi he must win the World Cup before he can be considered a true great.

Home-based Super Eagles will today trade tackles with the Palancas Negras of Angola at the Abuja National Stadium in an international friendly that portends different things to the two teams.

Thierry Henry is determined to extend his Arsenal goalscoring record after making a fairytale return for the Londoners in the FA Cup victory over Leeds.

Burkina Faso have been cleared to play in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after a legal bid by Namibia to have them disqualified failed, African football’s governing body CAF said on Tuesday.

Players and officials of the national team, Super Eagles, were still in battle mood after they were told that the team will no longer be travelling to Cotonou , Benin Republic to take on the Palancas Negras of Angola in an international friendly.

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has said that Wednesday’s international friendly against the Palancas Negras of Angola in Abuja is not a must win for the home based Super Eagles reports Jacob Ajom.

The Nigeria Football Federation has commiserated with the Bauchi State Football Association over the death of eight football players in an auto crash in Bauchi State on last week.

Lionel Messi was on Monday awarded the 2011 FIFA Ballon d’Or at a star-studded ceremony in Zurich, the third consecutive year that he has won the prestigious award for the world’s outstanding footballer.