Afcon: Eagles beg refs for fairness.

Super Eagles players have sent a passionate plea to officiating officials at the ongoing Afcon 2013 Nations Cup, to be fair to the team in their remaining games, even as they hope to make the quarters when they clash with Ethiopia on Tuesday.

Sighs, hisses in sports as Nigeria clocks 52.

As Nigeria celebrates her 52nd Independence Anniversary today, Minister of Sports and Chairman of National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has taken a cursory look at the country’s performance and passed a verdict of ‘’nothing to celebrate in sports 52 years after’’.

I’m not competing with Messi — Falcao.

Atletico Madrid striker Radamel Falcao has stressed that he is completely focused on his own performances and is not looking to measure himself against Barcelona star Lionel Messi and Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo.

Mikel wants Chelsea flying start.

Mikel Obi has said he expects Chelsea to begin their UEFA Champions League defence on a winning note when they host Italian champions Juventus on today.

New Cameroon coach to seek Eto’o's return.

New Cameroon coach, Jean-Paul Akono’s first order of business, will be to seek a return to the team of disaffected captain, Samuel Eto’o and defender Benoit Assou Ekotto, he said on Friday.

Shevchenko delivers for Ukraine.

Ukraine’s former European Player of the Year Andrei Shevchenko rolled back the years here on Monday as his second-half double inspired the Euro 2012 co-hosts to a come from behind 2-1 win over Sweden in their Group D encounter.

Siasia lands lucrative job in India, to coach Okocha.

FORMER Super Eagles midfield maestro, Austin Jay Jay Okocha has been signed by Indian club Durgapur. Also on board is Samson Siasia who will be the coach of the team. Okocha will earn 550, 000 dollars (about N88.8m), while Siasia will take home 210,000 dollars (N33.9m).

Onuoha teams up with Taiwo at QPR.

New Queens Park Rangers manager Mark Hughes bolstered his back four for the second time this week after signing Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha on Thursday.

Gyan makes goalscoring return for Ghana.

Gyan had been a doubt for the Nations Cup after pulling his hamstring last month Asamoah Gyan allayed the fears of many Ghana fans by playing and scoring in an Africa Cup of Nations warm-up match on Wednesday.

Eagles win Copa Lagos.

Nigeria’s Sand Eagles on Sunday beat their Brazilian counterparts, Reis da Praia (Kings of the Beach) to emerge champions of the 2011 Copa Lagos Beach Soccer.

Barcelona wins Club World Cup, beats Santos 4-0.

Lionel Messi grabbed a classy brace as the “artists” of Barcelona out-classed the Brazilians Santos 4-0 to lift the Club World Cup Sunday and confirm their status as the best team on the planet.

FIFA Club World Cup: Esperance fans run wild in Japan.

Qatar’s Al Sadd will play Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup after the Asian champions stunned Esperance of Tunisia 2-1 on Sunday, sparking fan violence and a pitch invasion.

Nigeria will bounce back, sports minister assures.

Team Nigerian officials were jolted yesterday with the official release of the Medals Table of the on-going 10th All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique which saw South Africa in pole position with 20 gold medals while Nigeria with one gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals occupy the 8th position in the 17-Nation Games.

Minister blasts coaches.

Sports Minister, Alhaji Yussuf Suleiman bared his fangs yesterday on some coaches of Team Nigeria for their ineptitude that has seen some athletes lose medals that ordinarily they would have won.

Armenia offered three million euros to reach Euro.

Armenian football federation president Ruben Airapetyan has promised the national squad a three-million-euro bonus if they secure qualification for the Euro-2012 finals, local media reported Friday.

More bonuses for Team Nigeria.

Impressed with the discipline and conduct of Team Nigeria at the on-going All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique, Sports Minister Alhaji Yussuf Suleiman has announced “morale-boosting bonus” to the athletes.

Eagles revive Nations Cup hope.

Voices at the background were loud at the time Samson Siasia spoke with us. It was few minutes after the match and the players were, apparently, celebrating their victory which their coach described as “hard”.

Dehinde Akinlotan: A hero, Mudal Lawal’s support as an elixir .

Watching his childhood hero, the late Mudashiru Lawal, do great things with the ball was the only elixir Dehinde Akinlotan needed to whet his appetite for football. But his parents stood between him and the realisation of his innate abilities.