Manchester United to play International friendlies

Not involved in European competition and knocked out of the League Cup, Manchester United are considering playing midweek friendlies abroad to help manager Louis van Gaal prepare for Premier League matches.

Van Gaal has used an astonishing 29 different players in the club's opening six league games of the season but a potential lack of competitive matches to keep a large squad match fit is causing concern.

Bacary Sagna pictured with his wife, Ludivine at the beach

Ludivine Sagna looked as gorgeous as ever today, posting this picture on social media website Instagram. The ex-Arsenal WAG is now adapting to life in Manchester, with her husband and City player Bacary Sagna.

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Does Aminu Maigari deserve National award?

Opinion by Romanus Chukwunonso


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It did not come to many as surprise when the list of the nominees for National Honours award was released two weeks ago with the erstwhile President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Aminu Maigari, conspicuously missing.


For some, it would have been more surprising if he had made the list considering the reprehensible roles he played in the whole saga surrounding the crisis engulfing Nigerian football. Yet, for others, there was no gainsaying that he actually merited the award.

Nigerians in the 2014 Champions League

In this feature, goal.com profiledthe four Nigerian players contesting the Champions League this season

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By Ed Dove

The Champions League returns tonight with the beginning of the first series of group-stage games. Both fans of the teams involved and neutral observers alike are excited at the prospect of another terrific season of elite European competition.

Hopefully this year’s tournament can cumulate with a final as dramatic as last season’s showpiece between Madrid rivals Real and Athletic.

But will there be a Nigerian player involved?

Godfrey Oboabona pictured with wife and daughter

Godfrey Oboabona, a Super Eagles and Rizespor Defender added a year today.

All intending girls should keep off, this one has been taken!


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Serena Williams Is America’s Greatest Athlete

Serena Williams’s victory over Caroline Wozniacki puts her in rarefied company in the history of women’s tennis. It was her eighteenth Grand Slam singles title

This week, as the sports world repays our slavish attention with more lousy, grotesque news, it’s worth noting that, on Sunday, the greatest American athlete in a generation won the U.S. Open, again, for the sixth time and the third year in a row.

NFF/FIFA Security officer retires

Nigeria’s FIFA Security Officer retires from Police Force

The Nigeria Football Federation has praised the energy and uncommon commitment of Assistant Commissioner of Police, Elder Gideon Akinsola for his duties around and away from the Nigeria Police Force, as the renowned officer marked his retirement from the Force with a thanksgiving service in Lagos on Sunday.

Nigerian Football: NFF to hold 2014 Extra-Ordinary Congress in Warri

After a two-month long seemingly unending crisis in the Nigerian Football Family, there seem to be peace at the valley as Chris Giwa step aside and the NFF arranged a congress which will determine a new date for an election.