Eintracht Braunschweig summer signing Suleiman Abdullahi, has taken to life at his new club like a duck to water judging by his goal scoring run in pre season games.

Abdullahi took his pre season tally for the second division German side to six with a goal in their 4-1 thrashing of French side Bastia, In front of the home fans of the ambitious German side.

It took just four minutes for the former Flying Eagles forward to endear himself to the home fans with a smart finish from a knockdown at the edge of the opponent’s box to open scoring for his side.

Signed from Viking of Norway, fans of the Bundesliga side will be hoping he continue his free scoring run, when they play their first league game against Wuerzburger Kickers on the 7th of August.

Stephen Odey of Mountain of Fire Ministries was the notable absentee from the Nigeria Professional Football League All Star Team, in the list of 25 players released by coach Salisu Yusuf for the La-Liga World Challenge/Ramon de Carranza Trophy.

Salisu Yusuf listed 23 players in the list with Enyimba’s duo of Dare Ojo and Chinedu Udoji placed on standby to take the list of players to 25 in the team that will play notable teams like Valencia and Malaga.

Aside Odey, inform Nasarawa United forward Abdulrahman Bashir was also omitted from the list despite having 12 goals which includes six in his last six games.

Organisers of the event,LaLiga released Fixtures, time and venue of the NPFL All-Star tour which shows that their first match against LaLiga side, Valencia CF will hold inside the Alzira Stadium in the city of Valencia. The match will hold on August 10 with kick-off slated for 9.30pm Spanish time.

The NPFL All-Star team will then join the Trofoe Carranza tournament in Cadiz with their first match against EUFA Champions League and LaLiga runners-up, Atletico Madrid on August 12 at 6.30pm Spaish time.

The next fixture of the NPFL All-Star in the Carranza tournament is against Malaga CF three hours after the tie against Atletico Madrid on same August 12.

Should the NPFL All-Star make it beyond the group stage, then they will play a in the finals and should they lose in the group stage, they will also play against the other losers. All the post-group stage matches will hold on August 13.

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According to reports exclusively gathered by Owngoalnigeria.com, Head Coach of the Super Eagles Salisu Yusuf has concluded plans to have five players from the Nigeria Under-20s train with the Super Eagles.

Yusuf wants the players in camp ahead of the September 2nd tie against Tanzania Nigeria’s Final AFCON 2017 qualifiers, which has no significance as Nigeria are already out of the race to be at next year Africa Cup of Nations.

The coach who will later this month lead a team of players from the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to Spain for a pre season tournament has pencilled down top striker Victor Osimhen,Arsenal bound Kelechi Nwakali and defence hardman Lukman Zakari to train with the Eagles.

” Already Salisu is planning for the future, the Flying Eagles kids will train with the team ahead of the Tanzania game, it’s not like they are in contention to play but he wants to give them a feel of what the future holds for them” a source close to the coach told Owngoalnigeria.com

“The practice is not entirely new to Nigeria football but it has not just been in use the last few years, Kanu Nwankwo trained with the Super Eagles before World Cup 94 just after the Under-17 World Cup, In 2008 Rabiu Ibrahim trained with the Super Eagles too after winning the Under-17 World Cup.

“It’s usually the standard practice worldwide and Salisu Yusuf wants to introduce it here because it increases the player’s profile, works on their confidence which could in the long run help their career grow”.

Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively report that Nigeria will hand senior national team call-up to the duo of Chuba Akpom of Arsenal and Ovie Ejaria of Liverpool, when the list of players for the 2017 AFCON Qualifiers game against Tanzania is released.

Already Salisu Yusuf who is the head coach of the team in the absence of a foreign technical adviser has told close friends and associates that the duo are in his plans for the September 2nd tie against Tanzania, if he is still in charge.

Akpom who has represented England at various youth level, turned down the chance to represent Nigeria at senior level when he was first approached but recent reports suggest he has had a change of mind.

Ejaria trained with the Nigeria Under-17s team of 2013, that had the likes of Manchester City wonder kid Kelechi Iheanacho and Watford record signing but left the camp on the insistence of his former club Arsenal.

” Akpom and Ejaria will no doubt be in the team for the Tanzania game, Yusuf has already confirmed he will call them up if they are willing to commit to Nigeria” One of his aides told Owngoalnigeria.com.

” Akpom according to the NFF has indicated interest to play for Nigeria but Ejaria we are yet to establish contact with him but since he trained with the Under-17 in 2013, we are confident he wants to play for Nigeria”.

Former Tottenham Nigeria youth International Musa Yahaya, has started training with his new team FC Porto after arriving Portugal this week alongside fellow Mutunchi Academy prospect Moses John.

However they are presently not part of the first team according to their agent Babawo Mohammed, they are presently with the B team of the Portuguese giants, the reigning champions of the second division in Portugal.

Yahaya spent time on loan to Portimonense from Tottenham Hotspurs last season before he was bought over by the team, who in turn traded him off to FC Porto at the start of the summer transfer window as exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com

John was signed by the Portuguese giants after impressing scouts of the team during a scouting tournament organised by Babawo Mohammed in conjunction with Gee-Lec Football Academy.

“They are in Portugal already and Musa Yahaya has already played in his first pre season game, they lost 0-1 to the B team of Villarreal , Moses didn’t play he is still settling down to life in Portugal” Babawo Mohammed who manages the affairs of the duo told Owngoalnigeria.com.

“Just like Chidozie Awaziem, who is now an established member of the first team, they will be with the B team before making the step up to the main team if they impress the technical crew”.

Manager of Arsenal Arsene Wenger, has played down suggestions that Nigerian duo of Alex Iwobi and Chuba Akpom could lead Arsenal attack next season, before key players reach the require fitness level to challenge for a spot in the team.

The duo partnered each other in attack during their formative years at Arsenal. Akpom is back at Arsenal after a loan spell with Hull City, while Iwobi established himself as a starter with the first team during the second half of last season.

Fielding questions from journalist on the prospect of the duo leading the line for Arsenal next season, Wenger, who was pleased with Akpom for scoring the winning goal in their 2-1 pre season win over MLS All Stars revealed there isn’t much to read into the childhood friends playing together in the game.

“At the moment, I do not have too many attacking options. Let’s not forget that there are still a few players at home, and that a few players didn’t play today, like Cazorla. Then of course you have Ozil and Ramsey at home, even Giroud is not here. We have options, but we still look outside to find one more.”

As exclusively reported by Owngoalnigeria.com transfer expert Daniel Martins on the 18th of June 2016, Kano Pillars ace Ifeanyi Matthew was today presented as a player of Norwegian side Lillestrom.

He reportedly put pen to paper on a three years deal and he will be hoping he formally gets his European career underway in the same country his fellow countryman John Mikel Obi of Chelsea started his career in Europe.

Matthew is rated by many as one of the best midfielders in the Nigeria Professional Football League and was by far alongside Chisom Chikatara the bright side of a dull campaign for Nigeria at the last CHAN Championship in Rwanda.

He was a part of the Nigeria U-20 team that won the Africa Youth Championship in Senegal and many believed the injury he picked up at the U-20 World Championship in New Zealand in Nigeria’s first game against Brazil that ruled him out of the rest of their games is partly the reason why Nigeria crashed out in the round of 16.

Victor Moses fine performances for Chelsea in their pre season games is slowly making him one of the favourite player of new Chelsea Manager Antonio Conte.

The Nigerian who has been out on loan the last three seasons during the reign of former Manager Jose Mourinho, is doing his chances of staying at Stamford Bridge, a whole lot of good with his performances in the games he has played in pre season.

25 year old Moses was once again handed a start by Conte in their 1-0 win over Liverpool, and the Nigerian didn’t disappoint with another performance that clearly showed why he kept the duo of Juan Cuadrado and Pedro on the bench.

It was Moses forceful play that lead to the corner kick from which Cesc Fabregas well weighted cross was headed into the net by Gary Cahill for the lone goal of the game played in the United State of America.

For the duration he was on the pitch, Moses gave a good impression of himself, attacking and tracking back to help the defence in curtailing forays from Liverpool, a performance he is repeating for the third straight pre season game.

After the game, Moses was mentioned by Conte as one of his options in wide areas alongside the trio of Cuadrado, Pedro and Willian.