Ok,I recently stumbled on some pictures which I would like to share,would have uploaded them earlier,but was a bit busy...now that valentines day is over,I hope it still strikes the same chords,pls lemme know your views and if you have more you can add.
Kanu and amarachi nwankwo
Peter osaze odemwengie and sarah fallon
Austin and nkechi okocha
Obafemi who has a son with Abigail also has two other kids. He has a son, Tyler with a white girl he dated while playing in the UK and another child with an African lady he dated while playing in Italy.The relationship between the Super eagles star and his Ghanaian girlfriend started in Milan, Italy when Martins was playing for Inter Milan.
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated the Super Eagles of Nigeria on their exhilarating come-back victory over their Moroccan counterparts this evening in Cape Town in the quarter-finals of the ongoing African Nations Championship. Jonathan in a statement signed by Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) applauded the indomitable spirit with which the Super Eagles fought back from being three goals down to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and win a most memorable victory with almost the last kick of the match. The President commended the courage, patriotism, determination and dedication to national service exhibited by the Super Eagles today to all other Nigerians. He urged the team to maintain their exemplary commitment to national duty until ultimate victory in the continental soccer championship for home- based players is achieved. President Jonathan in the statement assured the team and its handlers that they will continue to receive the fullest possible support from the Federal Government and all Nigerians as they strive to add the African Nations Championship trophy to the African Nations Cup which Nigeria won last year. And he joined all other patriotic and proud Nigerians in praying for the success of the team in the semi-finals and finals of the tournament.
Nigeria defeated Morocco 4-3. Super Eagles Head Coach Stephen Keshi has given some insight on what transpired in the dressing room when his team was trailing 0-3 in Saturday’s crunch quarter final battle against the Atlas Lions of Morocco.
The Big Boss in the post-match conference said he told his players that they were simply not playing their game.
“What I told them at half time was that we were not the one playing like that, I told them they were giving too much respect to the Moroccans. Even though they are a good team, they don’t deserve such from us, we are supposed to take our game to them and that is what they did in the second half. I told them I want to see the same character or more like they displayed in the game against Bafana Bafana and they did that,” he said.
Barcelona have confirmed that almost 70 per cent of Neymar’s transfer fee from his move to Camp Nou went to a company owned by the player’s parents, ESPN reports.
The club have revealed the details of Brazilian Neymar’s move from Santos after Spanish prosecutors called on a Madrid judge to investigate what they perceived to be irregularities in the deal. The case was brought by Jordi Cases, a Barcelona member who opposed club president Sandro Rosell.
Photo of the day: C. Ronaldo didn't just take Messi's Ballon D'or, he took Messi's GF, Someone pls call Xavi n Iniesta to assist MESSI lol ....
Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or after a stunning year that saw him net an astonishing 66 goals in 56 games.
The Real Madrid talisman's achievements saw him surpass Hugo Sanchez in his club's scoring charts and equal Portugal legend Pauleta at the top of his country's list with 47 in 109 games.
So Mikel Obi is not single after all. He is seriously dating a beautiful Russian lady named Olga Diyachenko. They even live together in the UK.
Super Eagles Vice captain and Lille of France safe hands, Vincent Enyeama, has been picked as the best goalkeeper in the major leagues across Europe in the 2013/14 football season. Research by supersport.com showed that the ratio of saves made to goals conceded by the Nigerian is by far and away the most impressive, compared to any goalkeeper at any football club in any of Europe’s top leagues this season.
Barcelona defender Carles Puyol has admitted that 2013 was a difficult year for him as unrelenting injury problems kept him out of action, Goal reports.
The 35-year-old has made only three appearances in La Liga so far this term due to injury after previously missing the final months of the 2012-13 campaign.
Wimbledon champion Andy Murray lost 3-6 6-4 6-2 to German Florian Mayer in the Qatar Open second round on Wednesday, his second competitive match since returning from a back injury, according to Reuters.
The third-seeded Briton, who beat Mousa Zayed 6-0 6-0 in the first round, led 3-0 in the second set before Mayer won five games in a row and the world number 40 dominated the decider in Doha to seal victory in just under two hours.
Murray, the world number four, will head to Melbourne for this month’s Australian Open having played only two exhibitions and two ATP Tour matches since undergoing back surgery in September.
Ian Rush has said the words no Liverpool fan wants to hear: Luis Suarez could be sold in the summer.
The striker has been in fine form this season, topping the Premier League scoring charts with an incredible 19 goals by the turn of the year, making Brendan Rodgers’ men title contenders.
But Rush, Liverpool’s record goalscorer with 346, admitted that if the Merseyside club don’t make the top four this year then the Uruguayan could be sold… for £120m.
English clubside Chelsea FC completed the signing of Bertrand Traore on Wednesday, finalising a deal that was agreed in principle last October.
The 18-year-old joins from the Burkinabe side Association Jeunes Espoirs De Bobo-Dioulasso and has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with the Premier League club.
Traore made his international debut shortly before his 16th birthday.
He impressed on trial during Chelsea’s pre-season tour of Asia in the summer and played a part in all three games, scoring in Malaysia and in Indonesia.
“Jose Mourinho spoke a lot during training and he is one of the best managers. Maybe the best in the world,’’ Traore said after signing.
“He is a very good person and it is a dream for me to work with him. I can now say I am living a dream.
“My favourite players are Juan Mata, Mesut Özil and Eden Hazard. They’re very good players and I am trying to be like them.
“At Chelsea I look to follow the way of some African legends like Didier Drogba, Michael Essien and now Samuel Eto’o,’’ he said.
The Nigeria Football Federation has arranged a friendly with the Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia to serve as appetiser ahead of the 3rd African Nations Championship.
The match will hold at the Abuja National Stadium on Saturday at which the home-based Eagles will engage their Ethiopian counterparts.
Ademola Olajire, Assistant Director (Media), Nigeria Football Federation, in a statement in Abuja on Jan. 1, said the kick off had been scheduled for 4.00pm.
Both teams would be in the finals of the championship taking place over three weeks in three cities in South Africa in a competition holding from Jan. 11 to Feb. 1.
The competition is exclusively for senior professionals players in the domestic leagues of their various countries.
Arsenal will be without midfielders Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey, defender Kieran Gibbs and striker Olivier Giroud for the home game with Cardiff City on Wednesday and have doubts over five other players according to Reuters.
Manager Arsene Wenger told reporters on Tuesday the Premier League leaders had yet to receive a specialist’s report on Ozil’s shoulder injury and that Ramsey would be out for three more weeks with a thigh strain.
The pair both missed the 1-0 league win at Newcastle United on Sunday.
Roger Federer believes his best chance of winning a Grand Slam title during 2014 will come at Wimbledon, with the former world No 1 hinting that his best route for tournament success would be to play more serve-and-volley tennis.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion recently hired the services of Stefan Edberg who was considered the best serve-and-volley player of his generation.
Edberg, 46, won six Grand Slam titles between 1985 and 1992, with Federer describing him as ‘my boyhood idol.’
World soccer governing body, FIFA, has picked Sunday Mba’s winning goal in the final of South Africa 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) as one of the 13 moments that defined the outgoing year.
On its website yesterday, FIFA rated the goal as the second among the 13 unforgettable and memorable moments of 2013.
FIFA said of the winning goal Mba scored against Burkina Faso on February 10 at the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, “It was a goal worthy of winning any match, and Sunday Mba’s CAF Africa Cup of Nations-winning strike brought joy and relief to an entire nation.
Malky Mackay was “relieved of his duties” as manager of Cardiff City Friday just 11 days after being told by the English Premier League club’s Malaysian owner Vincent Tan he must resign or be sacked.
A statement on the club’s official website confirmed the fate of the 42-year-old Scotsman, adding that a new first team manager would be appointed in due course.
The departure of Mackay was widely expected after his very public falling out with billionaire businessman Tan, who has had a controlling share in the Welsh club since 2010.
Tan sent Mackay an email on December 16, with the resign or be sacked ultimatum.
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Stephen Keshi: Off the shoulders of a disappointing 2010 World Cup, Nigeria turned to one of their legends to help turn around the program. Keshi came in with a strict approach that initially turned off some of the team’s European-based stars, but eventually they began to buy in, and this year it culminated with the Super Eagles winning their first African Cup of Nations since 1994. Nigeria also qualified for the World Cup.
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has lamented missing his family at Christmas as the Super Eagles ‘B’ continue their camping towards the African Nations Championship.
The former Eagles captain cried out on Saturday that it would not be easy spending the Christmas Day in camp in preparation for the competition holding in South Africa between Jan. 11 and Feb. 1. He blamed the clash of the Nigerian football seasons with Christmas on poor planning.
Keshi, who is on N5m salary, said in Abuja that he would have loved to spend the holiday in the USA with his family, but that time would not permit him. According to him, the task of preparing the home-based Eagles for the CHAN had taken over his Christmas and New Year celebration.
