Pep Guardiola avoided his future employers as Manchester City were on Friday drawn to play Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the Champions League while Atletico Madrid will face the Spaniard’s Bayern Munich.

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool will play Villarreal in the Europa League semi-finals while defending champions Sevilla face Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk.

THE crisis rocking Nigerian football has hit a sour note with President of NFF, Melvin Amaju Pinnick requesting the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase to arrest Chris Giwa for allegedly inciting ‘disturbance against NFF and also for allegedly ‘’attempting to force his way into the Glass house of NFF yesterday.

A member of the Technical and Development Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation and former coach of the Super Eagles, Christian Chukwu has called for intensive preparation for the Nigeria U-23 Olympic team in order to ensure a gold-medal-winning outing at the Rio Olympics.

Nigeria Olympic team assistant coach Fatai Amoo has said the team have been drawn in a “very tough” group for the Rio Olympics. Nigeria are pitched against Sweden, Colombia and Japan in the first round of the Olympics in August.