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Leicester loan Ahmed Musa back to CSKA Moscow

Daily Dispatch January 28, 2018

Leicester City forward Ahmed Musa is due to undergo a medical after CSKA Moscow agreed a season-long loan deal, the Mail Online has reported. The 25-year-old Nigeria international moved from CSKA to Leicester for a club-record £18.2million fee in 2016. Despite a promising start to his Leicester

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BREAKING: Falconets beat South Africa’s Basetsana 6-0, qualify for U-20 Women’s World Cup

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2018

Nigeria’s Falconets on Saturday defeated South Africa’s Basetsana girls 6-0 in the second leg of the final qualifiers for the France 2018 U-20 Women’s World Cup. The Falconets edged their South African counterpart  8-0 on aggregate, having won the first leg in Polokwane a fortnight ago. The coach of the Falconets, Christopher Danjuma, expressed satisfaction […]

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Nigeria’s Super Falcons get new foreign coach

Daily Dispatch January 25, 2018

The Nigeria Football Federation has named top Swedish football coach, Thomas Dennerby, as the head coach of the Nigeria national women’s team, Super Falcons. The federation announced Thursday that the contract allows Dennerby to come into the job with an assistant, Jorgen Petersson, who is a highly experienced Swedish coach nominated by Dennerby. “The NFF […]

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What Manchester United number 7 jersey means to me – Alexis Sanchez

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2018

Manchester United striker, Alexis Sanchez, has revealed what the club number 7 jersey means to him. The Chilean international was handed the iconic number seven shirt on Monday night, after the long-anticipated swap deal that saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan head in the opposite direction was completed, bringing to a conclusion one of the biggest transfer stories […]

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Arsenal fans blame Thierry Henry for Sanchez move

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2018

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is being savaged on Twitter by Arsenal fans for advising Chile international Alexis Sanchez to move to Manchester United. In Twitter posts, fans called Henry all sorts of names for being ‘unpatriotic’ to Arsenal. He was blamed for Arsenal loss at Bournemouth after the coach disclosed that he got a pep […]

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Google honours Stephen Keshi

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2018

Google has honoured former Nigerian coach and player, Stephen Keshi, with a doodle on its search engine page for Nigerian loggers. The honour came on Keshi’s 56th birthday. Keshi died suddenly in Benin on 7 June, in 2016, to the shock of his compatriots. He was born in Azare, Bauchi. But his parents hailed from […]