WORLD attention would shift to athletics with all its funfare as the World Athletics Championship begins from August 15 to August 23 in Berlin, Germany.

Axed Golden Eaglets Coach, Henry Nwosu, has predicted that doom awaits the nation’s team at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, holding across eight Nigerian cities from October through November.

Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, is worried over the Golden Eaglets’ grouping in the Fifa Under-17 World Cup as the team was drawn in group A alongside Argentina, Germany and Honduras.

THE virtues of the former Green Eagles player, Sam Sochukwuma Okwaraji, who died in the course of rendering service to fatherland some 20 years ago, were extolled high yesterday at a memorial lecture organised in his honour by the Lagos chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN).

I was the first person he called. He asked me to call the medical personnel in when he appeared to be choking or in some kind of discomfort. He was still on his feet then and the medical team would not be allowed unless the referee so signalled especially when the game was still in play.