Speaking to newsmen in Enugu on Friday, Ezeaku said the club might register five more players to meet the CAF requirement in case of any eventuality
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Chime said that the players were released on December 22 to spend time and have fun with their family and loved ones for maximum concentration during the new season
Eguma was also part of Enyimba’s technical crew that led the ‘People’s Elephant’ to Caf Champions League success for the first time in 2003
Rangers’ Media Director, Foster Chime, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu that the list of affected players would be made known immediately by the technical crew after the pre-season camping
According to FIFA, the 2013 edition of the competition saw a 66 per cent growth compared to the 2009 edition in South Africa, with 433 million page views on fifa.com, partly due to the increasing mobile audience
The atmosphere at the famous stadium was electrifying as the hosts put in an excellent performance to get the better of the Spanish national team, which looked a shadow of itself.
Brazil FA President, Jose Maria Marin; Spain FA President, Angel Maria Villar Llona, joined FIFA President, Joseph S. Blatter, in a special presentation ceremony, in which shirts signed by the respective finalists were presented to Tokyo Sexwale, the Minister of Human Settlements in South Africa and a close friend of Mandela
The two sides could not be separated in 120 minutes of football and it was the Italians who held their nerve in the penalty shoot-out
Instead, the tournament climax will be what many are calling the
“dream final” – a surprisingly rare clash between Brazil and Spain.
It seems an anomaly that they have met just once in the last 23 years, in a 1999 friendly which ended goalless
The shoot-out was started off by Antonio Candreva of Italy who nonchalantly chipped the ball down the middle, showing incredible amounts of confidence
He spoke further, “It is our lot. No one gave the Dream Team a chance on the way to Atlanta in 1996, especially after they lost 0-3 to Togo in their final friendly in Lagos
The Selecao have won their last two encounters with Uruguay, including a 4-0 thumping in a World Cup qualifier in June 2009.
Luiz Felipe Scolari’s first-ever match in charge of Brazil ended in a 1-0 defeat to Uruguay in July 2001
In a story titled: ‘Sex, lies and videotape’, it said the thefts were noticed after the five women left the hotel the following morning and that some of the events had been caught on a hotel security camera
Yobo, who was not listed by the Super Eagles’ handler, Stephen Keshi, for the ongoing Confederations Cup, will also miss the European action for two seasons, following his Fenerbahce’s involvement in match fixing scandal
The team is expected to leave its Seara Praia Hotel in Fortaleza by 10:30am local time, which is 2:30pm Nigerian time, for Sao Paolo from where the team will link a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa
In prestigious tournaments, refereeing teams rarely get the chance to make more than one major mistake
The former Eagles skipper, speaking on a Super Sport programme on Sunday, said the home based-Eagles’ performance in the tournament did not meet the expected standard
Bosque admitted the 3-0 did not really reflect the trend of the game and that the Nigerian side was unlucky not to have scored, especially in the first half
Substitute Luis Suarez added a brace in the final minutes, surpassing Diego Forlan as Uruguay’s all-time leading scorer
Even a win by them may not have changed their fortunes as their advancement in the competition was also hinged on the other group match in Recife between Uruguay and Tahiti