Former coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Sunday Oliseh has once again spoken about his time as coach of the senior national team of Nigeria.

The former captain of the team was appointed as coach of the team in 2015 and took charge of 14 international games but resigned the following year after a row with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

During his time as coach the team suffered just two losses and scored a total of 19 goals conceding just six in the process. He is also instrumental to the introduction of the likes of Kelechi Iheanacho, Alex Iwobi and Wilfred Ndidi into the team.

Speaking on his tenure, the coach who later handled Dutch side Fortuna Sittard after his job with the senior national team of Nigeria said he laid the foundation for the current team.

“ My philosophy was to get young talented players that we will could mould and build into a modern playing style and in 14 games for the national team we lost only twice. But then everything started going wrong”, he said in an interview with international media outlet DW.

Red hot Nigeria international forward Paul Onuachu grabbed a hattrick yesterday to help his side secure a 4-1 win over Eupen in the Belgium league yesterday.

The hattrick takes his goal count to 18 for the season making him the top scorer in the Belgium top division but it wasn’t all rosy as he was involved in a bust up with his teammate Theo Bongoda before scoring one of two spot kicks that helped him secure his hattrick.

Both players had to be pull apart from each other when the argument became intense with Onuachu who was already on two goals keen on securing his second career hattrick while Bongoda was searching for his first in the game.

Bongoda , Juanya Ito and Onuachu have struck a good combination in attack and coach Van den Brom has confirmed that he will hold talks with the duo to douse the tension of what happened on the pitch yesterday.

“ You bet we’ll talk. I will certainly talk to both of them. We have to get rid of this very quickly. The team is always more important than individuals”, he said while reacting to the incident.

The Nigeria U17 team started their campaign at the ongoing WAFU Africa U17 Cup of Nations qualifiers on the wrong foot by losing 0-1 to Côte d’Ivoire.

Nigeria were for large spell of the game second best as the Ivorians dominated the game with Nigeria’s goalkeeper Destiny Emuwahem denying them the chance to go ahead.

They however found the breakthrough 14 minutes from full time scoring what ended as the lone goal and decider of the game which is the first in the group.

Ivory Coast now leads the group with three points with the Nigerian team coached by Fatai Amoo needing a victory in their next game against Ghana to keep their hope of picking a ticket to the Africa U17 Cup of Nations alive.

Nigeria Starting XI

Destiny Emuwahen (GK)

Abdullahi Bewene

Victor Udoh

Joseph Kuteyi

Vinci Osuji

Chukwuemeka Egbu

Oluwatomiwa Kolawole

Samuel Akere

Joseph Arumala

Christian Nwachukwu

Haruna Hassan

Renown transfer expert Fabrizo Romano has vehemently denied linking Nigerian striker Atto Abbas with a move to English Premier League giants Arsenal.

Turkish media outfit Fanatik.com.tr quoted Romano in the news linking the Kasimpasa Nigerian forward with the Gunners in the January transfer window after tracking him for some years.

“This kid has great potential. A name that has a great command of his feet. It moves very easily with the ball. At the same time, he is a fast and agile football player”, he was quoted as saying.

Romano took to Twitter to refute the quotes insisting that he has never spoken about the 22 year old Abbas who was once upon a time linked with a move to German side RB Leipzig “ I have never said it in my life”, he said while reacting to a post made by an Arsenal friendly twitter handle @ZRAFC over the news where their quoted Fanatik.com.tr as their source.

The case of Atto Abbas is one that has so many doubts surrounding it as he has no known record with Kasimpasa bar news about his exploits with the club which are usually without evidence.

Sometimes around last year, a mail was sent to this portal on same player linking him with a move to RB Leipzig but upon our checks with respected players database outfits there was no record of his exploits with Kasimpasa as claimed in the mail.

His name is not in any of Kasimpasa’s record on line and even their official website has no record of any player with the name Atto Abbas.

Former Chelsea left back Celestine Babayaro says out of favour Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori is feeling the effect of playing for England very early into his career in the English top flight league.

Tomori made his senior international bow for England on the 18th of November in 2019 coming on as a substitute in a European qualifiers game against Kosovo after impressing in his first few games for Chelsea in the English Premier League.

Since then he has struggled to match same height with Chelsea that led to his maiden and only call up. He is now Chelsea’s fifth choice centre back following the arrival of Thiago Silva in the summer.

Babayaro told Owngoalnigeria.com in an exclusive chat that playing for England when he was just making inroads into the first team of Chelsea affected his career as expectations went high hence putting him under pressure.

“ It’s a combination of several issues but I personally think it’s down to playing for England at a very young stage in his career. The pressure that comes with it is that people now expect a lot and it can also make the player crack “, he said.

“ You see the aim is to play for England at senior level and when that happens it requires a lot to keep the player grounded and humble. Tomori is in that boat base on my observation”.

Top division Danish side SønderjyskE have revealed why they decided to end their association with former captain of the senior national team of Nigeria Ogenyi Onazi.

Onazi’s deal was terminated with six months left to run on the deal following his move to the club on a free transfer in his bid to relaunch his career. The 28 year old leaves the club after playing just two league games.

Explaining the decision, Sporting Director of the team Hans Jorgen Haysen said the decision was arrived at with the player after he told them that he doesn’t think he fits in the league properly hence want to move on.

Both parties decided to mutually terminate the deal in order to help him move on with his career which hasn’t been the same since his return from a long injury lay off while at Trabzonspor in Turkey.

There is not a finger to put on Onazi’s efforts in SønderjyskE. He has been a professional to the tips of his toes and he has fitted in well with the group with his dedication and he has also scooped out his experience to the young players on the team.

– He came with a backlog from an injury, but he has been in almost all training sessions with us, and it also became a starting place in the Sydbank Cup and a few innings in the 3F Super League. However, it did not turn out quite as he and we had hoped, and he himself has expressed that he might fit better into another league than the 3F Superliga, and he now has the opportunity to try it out.

– We thank him for his efforts in the light blue jersey and wish him all the best for the future, says Hans Jørgen Haysen in a statement on the website of the club.

It’s the third time in a role that he has now mutually terminated his contract with the other two times happening with Trabzonspor and Denizlispor.