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Siasia to get N5m per month
From Ezeocha Nzeh,
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) yesterday named former national U-23 coach, Samson Siasia, as the new coach of the Super Eagles with the mandate to change the fortunes of the senior national team.

New Delhi: Agbonabvare secures second gold for Nigeria

By Ben Efe,

Nigeria’s ‘gold rush’ at the Commonwealth Games gathered steam yesterday, when Joe Effionayi

Agbonabvare won a second gold medal for the country in the Greco_Roman wrestling event.

Liverpool’s new owner to clear debts

Dan Roan

Liverpool's prospective new owner has vowed to clear the Premier League club's debts when it takes over.
New England Sports Ventures (NESV) issued a statement saying it would move "all acquisition debt" away from the club if its £300m bid succeeds.
NESV, which owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team,

Manchester United pre-tax ebbs down
The club has substantial debt repayments
Manchester United, hit by one-off finance charges and reduced revenues from the sale of players, has reported an annual pre-tax loss of £79.6m. The loss for the 12 months to 30 June compares with a profit of £48m for the year before, when revenues were boosted by the £80m sale

FIFA official raises concern over ‘’brutal infringement’’
By Tim Franks
Fifa's top medical official has said that football at the highest level is being disfigured by "criminality" and "brutality" on the pitch.
Dr Michel d'Hooghe told BBC Sport he is concerned by the number of serious injuries caused by dangerous tackles. "Some players come on the field... simply to provoke injuries in other persons - to break a career," he said.
The Belgian added: "I have two eyes,

Nigel de Jong dropped from Dutch squad

Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong has been dropped from the Netherlands squad for the upcoming matches against Moldova and Sweden.
De Jong was involved in a tackle which left Hatem Ben Arfa with a double leg-break during City's 2-1 Premier League win over Newcastle on Sunday. Netherlands coach Bert Van Marwijk told the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper: "It was a wild and unnecessary offence.
"I have a problem with the way Nigel needlessly looks to push the limit."
It is not the first time the 25-year-old De Jong has been in the spotlight for aggressive tackles.

FIFA Ban: NFF goes for out-of court settlement

The drama surrounding Nigerian football took a new dimension yesterday as the National Association of Nigerian Footballers quietly withdrew the court case it instituted against the Alhaji Aminu Maigari-led board of the Nigeria Football Federation and agreed an out-of-court settlement.

With the latest development, it means the elected board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has been re-instated. “We met with FIFA executive Amos Adamu and have agreed to settle the matter out of court,” disclosed president of NANF, Harrison Jalla, last Wednesday.

Roland Garros: Nadal takes fift crown
By Steven Wine,
Nadal reclaimed his crown Sunday as the King of Clay, avenging his lone Roland Garros defeat by beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.
The victory ended his longest Grand Slam drought since winning his first major title at Roland Garros in 2005.

FIFA suspends Nigeria

WORLD football governing body, FIFA, yesterday decided to suspend the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from all its activities with immediate effect “on account of government interference.”
In taking the decision, FIFA cited “the latest events linked to the NFF, such as the court actions against elected members of the NFF Executive Committee preventing them from exercising their functions and duties; the stepping down of the Acting NFF General Secretary on the instructions of the National Sports Commission; the decision of the Minister of Sports to

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