The week of Victor Ehuwa Eletu ended on a sound note as he assisted and also scored in his debut game for AC Milan just two days after he officially signed professional terms with the Italian gjants.

17 year old Eletu, a graduate from the Milan school of football took the chance of playing in front of the first team manager Stefano Pioli with both hands by helping them secure a win against Serie D side Lumezzane.

He started with an assist before grabbing a goal of his own in the test game meant to put the players in shape ahead of the return to club football which was paused due to the World Cup in Qatar.

Ironically, this season for the youth team where he has earned plaudit and even rose to the position of one of the captains of the team he hasn’t found the back of the net in 17 games in all competitions namely the youth league, Coppa Italia and UEFA Youth League.

Already his form has caught the attention of the coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso, who told OwnGoalNigeria.com that he is among the players based abroad he wants to add to his team in January.

Nigeria will travel to Egypt for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations with Eletu expected to add steel to the midfield if AC Milan agrees to allow the Lagos born teen honour the call up when it comes.

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You have to check the period that the online casino or sportsbook has been in existence. It is important to know the platform’s years of operation. Wondering why? This is because most of the trustworthy online gambling platforms have operated in the industry for many years and can pass eat-and-run verification (먹튀검증).

They have managed to stay in business for all that long as they provide great services that keep players coming back. New platforms can’t be easily trusted as they can close at any time and run away with your money. It is a common practice to scam sites after meeting their target.

You can only trust a new platform if it partners with any big organization in the industry. Or if it has several popular sister sites run by the same parent company.

Any online gambling platform should only win your trust if other customers talk well about it. This is proof that its services are great and other players haven’t got any problems with them.

The good news is customer reviews are on so many different online platforms and you just have to search for them freely. You will get enough details about each gambling site and only go for those that are reviewed positively.

One of the common characteristics of scam sites is restricted withdrawal. They make it challenging for you to withdraw your money. In fact, after winning and accumulating some good cash on the site, your account is closed and you are banned from the platform without clear reasons.

However, a trustworthy betting and gaming platform releases your winnings smoothly without any unfair restrictions. As long as you meet the minimum withdrawal limit and your money doesn’t exceed the maximum limit, you can cash it out easily.

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Go for Trusted Sites

Embrace the above tips as well as eat-and-run verification (먹튀검증) to easily and quickly identify the best online gambling platform to go for.

Back in March, Thomas Partey’s away goal in Lagos sent Ghana to the World Cup at the expense of Nigeria. Ugly scenes followed the result, with several Super Eagles voicing their dysplasia at the performance, both on the pitch and off it. But there was one tiny silver lining.

The draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup was made a few days later, and it threw up a tie that the planet had waited over a decade to see. A fixture that the eyes of the world would be on. Ghana vs Uruguay.

Back in 2010, it was the hand of Luis Suarez which stopped the Black Stars from becoming the first African nation in history from reaching the semifinals on football’s grandest stage, on African soil, nonetheless.

His last-gasp handball prevented Ghana from sealing a 2-1 victory and progression to the tournament’s final four. Instead, captain Asamoah Gyan would miss the resulting penalty with the final kick of the game, and the South Americans would go on to win via a penalty shootout, setting up a date with the Netherlands for a place in the Johannesberg showpiece.

12 years on from that fateful evening, the Ghanaians finally had their shot at redemption. The villain of the piece, former Barcelona and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, refused to apologize for the incident, instead pointing the finger at Gyan for missing the resulting spot-kick. That only stoked the fires ahead of this showdown in Qatar.

And as if the stakes weren’t high enough, the odds suggested that the winner of the tussle would progress to the last 16.

The Black Stars unable to claim their redemption

Ahead of the crunch clash, the Group H table was finely poised. Ghana knew that if they could avoid defeat, they would qualify for the second round at the expense of their nemesis. Uruguay knew that they had to win in order to have any chance of progressing while hoping a heavily rotated Portugal avoided defeat against Son Heung-Min’s South Korea, who had hopes of their own of progressing to the last 16.

Although soccer lines and outrights had made Uruguay the favorite for the World Cup, it was the Black Stars who started the brightest. And they were rewarded for that in the 20th minute when Mohammed Kudas was felled by goalkeeper Sergio Rochet. The referee duly pointed to the spot and just like 12 years ago, Ghana had the chance to take an all-important lead.

However, like back in Johannesberg, they couldn’t take it. Andre Ayew’s tame penalty was comfortably saved by the Nacional shot stopper, and his La Celeste teammates couldn’t hide their delight. And that elation was only elevated five minutes later, as Giorgian de Arrascaeta gave the South Americans the lead, bundling home after some shocking Ghanian defending allowed Luis Suarez in on goal.

‘Keeper Lawrence Ati-Zigi made the initial save; however, the ball fell to the Flamengo attacking midfielder, who nodded home from barely a yard out. Six minutes later, the two-time World Cup winners were in dreamland when de Arrascaetadoubled Uruguay’s lead, finishing off a brilliant team goal.

As the game progressed, it was clear to see that on this night – just as was the case 12 years ago – things weren’t going Uruguay’s way. But there was to be a late sting in the tale, delivered some 25km away in Al Rayyan.

Late Korean Drama

While Uruguay was heading for a comfortable victory at the Al Janoub Stadium, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal were experiencing anything but comfort inside the Education City Stadium. Luckily for manager Fernando Santos, his side had already qualified for the second round, but their opponents, South Korea, needed a win.

And things couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start for the Taegeuk Warriors when SC Braga winger Ricardo Horta gave the Portuguese the lead after just nine minutes. The 28-year-old was able to latch onto Manchester United fullback DiogoDalot’s cutback to lash home on his World Cup debut.

But the Koreans dragged themselves right back into the contest 20 minutes later courtesy of Kim Young-Gwon. The 32-year-old took full advantage of a corner that deflected off the back of Ronaldo and fell right into his path. It was easier to score than miss, and the Ulsan Hyundai man duly obliged.

The match then became a cagey affair, but deep into second-half stoppage time. South Korea finally got a deserved second. Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Hwang Hee-chan latched on to his fellow Premier League compatriot Son Heung-Min’s pass to slot past Diogo Costa and trigger wild scenes both on the pitch and in the stands. The final whistle came, but Son and co. couldn’t yet celebrate.

The game between Ghana and Uruguay was still being played, and La Celeste knew that one more goal would send them through at South Korea’s expense. They couldn’t find it, however, and it was South Korea who had sealed their passage to the second round in the unlikeliest of circumstances.

The reason behind the failure of the senior national team of Nigeria to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar has dominated discussion as the tournament reaches the semi final stage, where Morocco are the only African team in the last four.

Morocco made history by making it to the last four owing to their 1-0 win over Portugal in the quarter final and they will face France in the last four after their 2-1 win over England. The performance of the Atlas Lions has no doubt provoked discussions about the Super Eagles.

Recently, a senior player in the team Leon Balogun talked about vodoo as probably the reason why they failed to beat Ghana in the playoff but another player in the team said it’s far from it. He instead said the problem was the internal fighting among the coaches.

Nigeria went into the two legged playoff game with Austine Eguavoen as the interim technical adviser with Emmanuel Amuneke appointed as head coach to help the crew after their round of 16 exit at the Africa Cup of Nations.

It appears that move backfired spectacularly as a player who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the coaches were caught up in a power tussle on who is ahead in the set up.

” There was no proper definition of who is ahead of who. The hierarchy wasn’t spelt out properly. A coach will say we will play this way, another will say no play this way. Many people are not aware that we had two separate lineups for the return leg of the playoff against Ghana”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

” We trained in a particular way but on matchday we played in a different way. We didn’t even know what was going on. Players who we thought should start were on the bench . It was chaotic. Our coaches worked against themselves and the nation at large”, he claimed.

Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Ladan Bosso says the team will begin the second phase of their preparation for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations by January.

Bosso has been in camp for two weeks and so far his team has won every test game played against local teams but from next week they will step it up by playing against teams from the Nigeria Professional Football League and also the Nigeria National League (NNL).

He said that will be the final lap of their preparation with players based in Nigeria before a decision will be taken on areas where he will look abroad for players who will join the team in January. One month before the AFCON gets underway in Egypt.

In an exclusive chat with Owngoalnigeria.com, he said he has already sounded out ten players but he will no doubt trim the list pending on areas where the team is lacking or needs more options.

” If I am calling a player based abroad. I expect that player to walk into my team and make a difference, I won’t call a player from a team in Europe and keep him on the bench. I have ten names but I am waiting to see where we will need reinforcement before settling for some in the list”, he told Owngoalnigeria.com.

On if he is open to the idea of calling players born abroad, the coach said he won’t hesitate to pick among them if they have the quality to make the team better and also decide to play for Nigeria.

” It starts with the quality and if they can improve our team. They are Nigerians and it will be unfair to discriminate against them because of where they were born but we also have to be sure of the player’s willingness to play for Nigeria before making our move”, he remarked.

Dutch side Ajax Amsterdam are well known and regarded as one of the best when it comes to identifying and grooming talents to global stardom. As a matter of fact a lot of people believe they are top in the world in that regard.

Their model which involves intensive scouting of players from all over the world has seen them make more money from players sale than most teams in Europe. That model is now what most teams around the world is now emulating.

It was how they got Shedrach Ebite, a 16 year old striker who was signed last summer from fellow Dutch side Den Bosch and has wasted no time in making his mark at the club.

“The interest of Ajax came as a surprise. In March 2022 I was allowed to train for three days, a short internship period. This internship took a lot of getting used to for me. The first training was not normal, the pace was ten times higher. Act quickly and much smaller spaces than at FC Den Bosch”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Sheddy as he is called has caught the eyes not just with his skills, strength or goal scoring ability. His pace has been what has been pinpointed as his major assest, something which he said he inherited from his Nigerian mother who was an athlete. His father also from Nigeria was a sportsman.

“My parents were both born in Nigeria and came to the Netherlands at a young age. My mother did athletics and was a sprinter in Nigeria, hence my speed, I think.” His father was also a sportsman in their home country. “He played football in Nigeria and is really my football mentor. He used to always stand along the line and give me a lot of tips at home.”

The former captain of the senior national team of Nigeria John Obi Mikel says the senior national team of Nigeria has dropped down the pecking order in the list of feared team in Africa.

Nigeria missed out on the qualifying for the World Cup in Qatar losing out on away goal rule to Ghana in the playoff of the qualifiers. Mikel said the failure to qualify for the World Cup tops the decline that has been evident over the years.

” The failure to qualify for the World Cup didn’t happen by accident. It was a steady decline which started in 2019 I think and as at 2020, the team has lost the fear factor it had two years ago. People forget how good we were in 2018″, Mikel said in a video made available to OwnGoalNigeria.com.

Speaking further, he said other African countries caught up with Nigeria by employing the right coaches to tinker their national team. In his words teams like Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon and Egypt have now moved ahead of Nigeria within a space of four years.

” You see the kind of coaches Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon, Senegal and Egypt have had in the past four years. You’ll agree with me that it was intentional. Coaches who understand the team’s strength and weaknesses. Work out a quick way to get the best and here they are now”, he said.

” With all due respect to those responsible for appointment of coaches in Nigeria. We haven’t had the best for the system that is best for our players. Talent isn’t missing in the team but harnessing them for a common goal is the missing piece. Super Eagles have been left behind in Africa”, he concluded.

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You must carefully choose the venue for the event. That is because it will be challenging for your guests to visit the venue if it is situated in a remote place. As a result, fewer people will attend. So, whether you’re planning a small-scale performance event, a business conference, or a massive public event, you should conduct thorough research before deciding on the venue. The site should ideally be situated near the city centre in a busy neighborhood so attendees won’t have trouble finding it. Since not everyone has a car, it is advised that you pick a location accessible by public transportation. When selecting a spot for your event, consider how far it is from the bus or subway station closest to you.

For several reasons, you must know the room capacities of arenas like the United Center. Firstly, ensure that the place you choose can comfortably accommodate your expected attendance. Secondly, the venue must adhere to fire and safety regulations. Ensure that the previous F&B records from the past events are following the minimum if your venue sells food or beverages and imposes a minimum food & beverage consumption amount (referred to as an F&B minimum). It indicates that you would be a great client to the venue if your estimated F&B spending is significantly more than they require. Ask whether they will provide free service in exchange for a particular amount of your money (for example, upgraded Wi-Fi or A/V support). It’s also crucial to know the requirements to accommodate changes in space or food and beverage requirements before or during your event.

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Naturally, selecting the ideal venue is a major choice and typically involves many factors, so take your time and conduct thorough research. And if you can see a venue before making a reservation, take it. If not, consult any contacts in the area or read as many online evaluations as possible. It will assist you in avoiding unsuitable locations and locating the ideal setting, like United Center, for your needs.

The Nigeria U20 team of coach Ladan Bosso played  another test game as part of their preparation for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations and came out with a resounding 8-1 win over AA Zaura Academy.

Ojora Mustapha drove the ball beyond the keeper. Most teams would now be happy to defend for a while to compensate for an early goal but Zaura didn’t change their formation or tactics, and Flying Eagles took advantage.

About four minutes later Adam Olamilekan was tripped inside the box, after little contact. The silky winger had earned a penalty for Yahaya Ibrahim to score, 2-0.

Salisu Abdullahi reduced the deficit for Zaura in the 31st minute.

For Flying Eagles and Zaura the best way of defense is attack, but Flying Eagles had the luxury of being 3-1 up! After a delicious pass from Daniel Daga, Aminu Mohammed finished of the main course with a great finish.

For Zaura, this was in danger of becoming a cricket score, so what happened? They conceded another as Ayuba Francis showed predatory instinct.

An own goal from Mahmoud Mohammed made the scoreline 5-1 before Ayuba Francis bagged a brace.

Flying Eagles were playing like gods, whereas Zaura were abysmal at best. Even at half-time, no-one could quite believe their eyes at the scoreline.

For Ladan Bosso it would probably be one of the easiest team-talks he will ever make and probably the same for the Zaura manager, as whatever he would say would fall upon deaf ears.

After the break Flying Eagles played the possession game they have perfected as Zaura played a little bit better, but not much.

Substitutes Shettima Umar and Olawiyola Matthew added two more goals for Bosso’s team.

For the neutrals it was splendid to watch, for the Nigeria U20 team it was beautiful to play.

Flying Eagles XI: Nathaniel Nwosu, Augustine Njoku, Solomon Agbalaka, Benjamin Fredrick, Daniel Bamaiyi, Daniel Daga, Aminu Mohammed, Yahaya Ibrahim, Olamilekan Adam, Ojora Mustapha, Ayuba Francis

Reserves: Chijioke Aniagboso, Samson Drambi, Obinna Aha, Hassan Shuaibu, Odole Adedoyin, Tambi Nathaniel, Wilfred George, Johnson Onoha, Umar Shettima, Musa Usman, Kadiri Collins, Shodeinde Moses, Olayiwola Matthew, Okoroji Chukwudi, Sadiq Yalwa, Anas Yusuf, Bright Vincent, John Joshua, Chijioke Osuji

Choosing a good betting site that is right for you is definitely a very important step in becoming a successful sports gambler. Once you have chosen your platform, it then dictates the options you have for betting, and it can also heavily affect the way you approach spending real money online. It’s vital that you start off right and bet using the best platforms with both regular sports and esports—for the latter, you may want to see the top 3 Nigerian Dota 2 betting sites described here: https://bet9jaguide.ng/the-top-3-nigerian-dota2-betting-sites/

In any case, it’s important to choose a platform that works just right for you and also guarantees that your private data, such as your financial information, will be completely secure. You’re in luck since we have put together this article to aid you in selecting a platform that meets all the standards.

Choosing a Betting Site in 4 Simple Steps

There are various measures you can take to simplify the process of selecting such a platform. This comprises:

• Understanding your goals
• Analyzing other bettors’ reviews
• Educating yourself about your options
• Learning what not to use when betting

Let’s look at these steps in more detail below.

Understanding Your Goals

One of the first steps in selecting a suitable platform is thinking about your end goals. If you stop and realize that you’re not even sure what they are, how can you possibly choose the proper platform?

Before you start looking for a platform that’s just right, think carefully about why you started looking for one in the first place. You can learn this by asking some crucial questions, like these:

• What sports do you think you wish to use for betting?
• Do you have any favorite sort of wager you’d like to try?
• Which type of payment works for you?
• Do you think about utilizing bonuses?
• Do you wish to begin placing live sports wagers?
• How often are you planning to place wagers?

It will be much simpler to select a platform that’s perfect for all your needs if you know the answers to all of these questions.

Analyzing Other Bettors’ Reviews

There is just no excuse not to be reading customer evaluations for any item or service that you consider using in this day and age. Naturally, there are also a ton of player reviews readily available if you look up betting—they can help you with any platform that has caught your attention.

You don’t have to look far to find these reviews because the platforms often have testimonials, meaning you can examine what other real money bettors are saying before choosing whether or not to join.

Customers write thorough evaluations of their experiences with various online betting sites on independent review websites, which are another great location to discover consumer reviews for an online sportsbook. These are often great places to go when learning about why people liked or didn’t like certain websites, as well as why it’s best to avoid some of the options, as well as learning to spot fake bonuses.

Educating Yourself About Your Options

It’s never a bad idea to take your time and get as acquainted with them using lists of many different platforms. Afterwards, it’s just as important that you don’t simply read the reviews but actually go on the platform and attempt using it.

Spend a bit of your time on the platform and keep an eye out for stuff like:

• Is it simple to use or comprehend the website?
• Does it have a variety of choices for deposits and withdrawals?
• Are incentives and promotions simple to locate?
• Is the process of placing your bet on the platform simple or difficult?
• Does it have any limitations that would prevent you from using it in full?

You can reduce your list by becoming aware of some specifics, such as accessible bet kinds, bonus terms, and banking methods. Then there’s this excellent feature when picking a website: what interface do you like and which one do you find user-friendly for navigating and finding the information you need.

Learning What Not To Bet On

Removing some of the available choices is the last and maybe most crucial step which is to be addressed. Now let’s look at the opposite of knowing what you seek, and that’s identifying a few deal-breakers, which is straightforward enough.

For instance, if you’re mostly interested in placing all your bets on football, you can go ahead and rule out any platform that doesn’t have it—those are rare but you get the idea. Then there are live bets: while some websites provide a ton of options for live betting, others do not.

When a platform charges you fees for whatever transactions you do, that right there is another deal-breaker for many bettors. This implies that each time you wish to change your balance by depositing or withdrawing, you end up suffering a little financial loss. While some gamblers are not bothered by this, others believe the fees mount up too rapidly and hasten how quickly you lose money.

Conclusion

There isn’t one single bookmaker that can be categorized as “the absolute best.” The simple fact is that what works great for one individual may not work for a lot of other people. It is necessary to take into account individual needs.

However, a select number of betting sites stand out as they have a lot more to offer than most of their competition.