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What Will Super Eagles Do Without Luck?

Daily Dispatch January 23, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan The three Super Eagles’ games at the preliminaries of the 2023 AFCON have shown the role of luck in football. If luck continues to smile at the team, Nigeria will reach the final and win this trophy for the fourth time, otherwise, it will be booted out of the competition

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Super Eagles: Nice Ingredients But Sumptuous Meal

Daily Dispatch January 21, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan The quality in Super Eagles will be a delight to any coach any day. Perhaps that is why the team’s former coach, Gernot Rohr cannot hide his admiration for the players even as they play under a lesser quality coach than himself. Coach Jose Peseiro’s 3-5-2 formation on Thursday was what Nigeria […]

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Joshua Vs Ngannou, Who Wins?

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan Undoubtedly, Anthony Joshua is winning the fight against Francis Ngannou in Riyadh in March. This bout is strictly about the purse, which will not in any way remove the spectacle, size and class of names that will attend the show. Riyadh is the new boxing theatre. The slaughter slab of this era. […]

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AFCON: Watching Eagles With Blind Eyes

Daily Dispatch January 4, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan. That Supersports will not broadcast African Cup of Nation, AFCON 2023 to be hosted by Ivory Coast, speaks volumes of how low football business has sunk in Africa. It is a news I received with mixed feelings with the fact that it will save me the emotion of following the Super Eagles […]

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Joshua’s Prayers: IBF or Undisputed?

Daily Dispatch December 29, 2023

By Kunle Awosiyan Anthony Joshua may fight for belt next year and win to become three-time heavyweight champion of the world. No matter the outcome of the undisputed contest between his compatriot, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, there will be a vacant IBF belt Joshua can fight for. The British-Nigerian former unified champion has done […]

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Tinubu salutes excellence of Nigerian women as he hosts Super Falcon star Asisat Oshoala

Daily Dispatch December 28, 2023

President Bola Tinubu and the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, hosted Asisat Oshoala, Super Falcons striker and 2023 CAF Women’s Player of the Year, in Lagos, on Thursday. President Tinubu and the First Lady had congratulated the Barcelona Femeni star on winning the best African female footballer of the year for the sixth time. The […]