A thunderbolt from Abeiku Quansah was the difference as Ghana survived a late comeback from Hungary to book their place in the final of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009. Leading 2-0 with just under 20 minutes to go thanks to a first half brace from Dominic Adiyiah, Quansah’s 81st minute effort was sandwiched in between strikes from substitutes Marko Futacs and Balazs Megyeri.

The FIFA U-17 World Cup will arrive in Enugu today. The tour has been designed to showcase the trophy to teeming soccer loving people of Enugu.

Felix Anyansi Agwu made a remark on stage at the AIT/MTN Footballer of the Year Awards. It turned out to be a major issue on the occasion that was graced by many big shots in Nigerian football.

When I read on the pages of the print media that FIFA intends to use the MRI age test for the forthcoming U-17 Championship, I was excited to the level of fulfilment. It appears that Sepp Blatter and his FIFA are set to return to the glory of sporting morality that had for a long time been jeopardised and violated through massive age fraud and deliberate infraction of its statutes with impunity.

Despite crowd trouble which almost marred last weekend Champions league second-leg semi- final between Kano Pillars and Heartland, the Nigeria 2009 Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup Kano a clean-bill to host the FIFA Under- 17 World Cup billed for October 24 to November 11.