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NPFL Match Day 13: Rivers United Fc Reassures Fans Of Outright Win
The Technical Manager of Rivers United Football Club of Port Harcourt, Stanley Eguma, says they are not celebrating yet but working harder to secure victory against Nasarawa United in the match day 13 of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) tomorrow in Port Harcourt.
He explained that presently the players is trying to understand the tactics and philosophy of the team.
Eguma stated this in an exclusive interview with Tidesports, yesterday after a training session at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt.
“ Nararawa United is a good team but we are working hard to secure our victory,” Eguma said.
The pride of the state will be aiming for four straight victory against Nasarawa United tomorrow after beating Sunshine 2-1, at home, Adamawa FC 2-0 away and 2-0 against MFM FC last Sunday in Port Harcourt.
The number one coach of the state praised his players for working hard to see the team victory during the festival period.
“In football game there is a lot of changes and thing are not starnen. I as a coach we work and the players executes,” he said.
He further explained that, now that they are still playing at home every members of the team must work hard.
According to him, they are trying there best to ensure they scored more goals in every matches they played.
“ I think we are getting is better by scoring two goals in the last three matches. For scoring more goals now it means players are now understanding our tactics and plans,” he explained.
United are presently third position on the log after playing 12 matches.
Rivers United Fc of Port Harcourt has reassured fans of the club that it will usher in its visitors Nasarawa United in a grand style to the match day 13 fixtures of the 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFC) scheduled to hold, today at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, Port Harcourt.
The pride of Rivers State has promised to stop at nothing, but garner all three points at stake in today’s match.
By: Kiadum Edookor
England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.
Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.
Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.
Kiadum Edookor