Boxer Prichard Colón dies 11 years after suffering brain injury in fight
Former Puerto Rican boxer Prichard Colón has died at the age of 33, almost 11 years after suffering a severe brain injury during a professional fight that left him in a persistent vegetative state.
Managing Ronaldo, Kaka, Alonso, Benzema ‘won’t be easy’, says Pellegrini
Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini admitted Monday that managing all of the Spanish giants’ new stars “will not be easy†this season.
“That will be the big challenge of this project. Many were top players at their clubs, it will not be easy,†sports daily Marca quoted him as saying.
U-17 World Cup: Only 7 Eaglets are eligible
A total of 29 players in Nigeria’s team preparing for this year’s Fifa Under-17 World Cup are believed to have failed the MRI bone scan test.A letter from Fifa to the NFF over the weekend stated that: “13 out of the 36-man squad failed the test on level 6, while 16 others failed the tests on levels 4 and 5.†This means that only 7 out of the 36-strong squad are eligible for the tournament.
Rangers hunt for Westerhof
THE Management Board of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu wants former Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Clemens Westerhof, to handle the coal city club in the next season ahead of the September 5 interview slated for those wishing to take up the job and other vacant positions in the club.
Super Eagles Vs Carthage Eagles
Shaibu Amodu, the Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, has included Obinna Nwaneri and John Utaka but dropped Daniel Shittu and Joseph Akpala from the squad in his last minute decision to bloat his team to 23 for the crunchy September 6 South Africa 2010 World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in Abuja.
From Berlin with drugs
After a disappointing outing at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics concluded Sunday inside the Olympic stadium here in Berlin, the Nigerian contingent led by Athletic Federation of Nigeria president, Chief Solomon Ogba, will start arriving Nigeria today in batches.
