Mikel Obi has stated that his team will overcome a recent poor run in the EPL after they lost 2-1 at West Brom on Saturday.

Former Green Eagles defender and veteran coach, Kelechi Emetole has backed coach Stephen Keshi to present a formidable team that will go places at the 2013 Nations Cup starting January 19 in South Africa. Emeteole hinged his optimism on the players and team capacity building programme Keshi embarked upon when he took over from Coach Samson Siasia in November 2011.

Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets are up against a strong Malian opponent in today’s African Under-17 Championship qualifier, at the U.J Esuene Stadium in Calabar and the team are being expected to up their game and make the second leg a less cumbersome enterprise.

The National Sports Festival began 1973 with the sole aim of promoting unity amongst the ethnic groups in the country after the Civil War as well as to discover hidden talents that can be harnessed and groomed for the future. Thirty nine years down the road, the aims and objectives of the founders have been truncated.

In 1988 Mexican football fell to the lowest point in its history. After fielding four over-age players in the qualifiers for the Under-20 World Cup, FIFA decided to ban all the country’s national teams from international football for the next two years. Apparently, the men in charge at the time didn’t trust the quality of young talent in the country and resorted to cheating in order to achieve decent results in the international arena.