Category Archives: Nigerian Players Abroad

Iheanacho Ready To Play In U-20 World Cup

May 10 Football, National Teams, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 2 comments

Nigerian youngster Kelechi Iheanacho has erased all doubts about his readiness for this year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup after scoring the winner as Manchester City’s U-21 won the inaugural International Premier League Cup on ...

Falcons Skipper Nwabuoku Signs For Kazakhstan Champs

April 16 Female Football, Football, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 831 comments

Super Falcons’ Captain, Evelyn Nwabuoku, has signed for reigning Kazakhstan League champions, Biik Kazygurt FC. The former Rivers Angels midfield maestro, who arrived the club on Monday evening and went through the manda...

Ovie Iroro Needs Sponsors To Achieve Formula 1 Dream

April 14 More, Nigerian Players Abroad 1,070 comments

.Ovie Iroro while speaking to Journalists in Lagos on Monday. – By Tunde Oyedele – Motorsport wunderkind Ovie Ross Iroro says his ambition is to become Nigeria’s youngest Formula 1 driver and he wants Nigeria...

Falcons’ll Qualify For All Africa Games, Olympics -Oshoala

March 4 Football, National Teams, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 2 comments

Super Falcons’ forward, Asisat Oshoala is optimistic her teammates will do the nation proud to qualify for the All Africa Games and Olympic Games. Oshoala, who now plies her trade with Liverpool Ladies, told Super Falcon...

Echiejile’s Monaco Beat Arsenal In Champions League

February 26 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad, UEFA Champions League 5 comments

Super Eagles of Nigeria’s defender Elderson Echiejile and his French side, Monaco defeated Arsenal 3-1 and punctured the Gunners’ hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first tim...

Siasia Invites Arsenal’s Iwobi, 8 Other Pros For Gabon

February 11 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 3 comments

.As 5 Home-Based Are Sent Packing – Chief Coach of the national U-23 Men’s football team, Dream Team VI, Samson Siasia has invited Arsenal’s teenage sensation Alex Iwobi and 8 other foreign-based profes...

Eduok Hits Hat-Trick As Esperance Drub Soliman

February 8 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 23 comments

Nigerian star Emem Eduok fired a hat-trick for Esperance on Saturday in a 5-0 drubbing of AS Gammarth Soliman. The former Dolphins FC of Port Harcourt goal poacher doubled Esperance’s lead in the 35th minute, when ...

Alampasu Relishes Move To Estoril

February 4 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 4 comments

Nigeria goalkeeper, Dele Alampasu has expressed gratitude to God for making his dream come true as he finally signed for Estoril Football Club of Portugal. Alampasu, who told eyeonthesports.com in an earlier interview th...

Yakubu Seals Reading Deal

February 3 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 5 comments

English Championship club Reading FC have completed the signing of former Nigeria international striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni. Reports in the English media on Monday claimed that the championship club are in talks with the fo...

Oshoala Scores In Debut Match For Liverpool

January 26 Female Football, Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 4 comments

Nigeria’s female international footballer, Asisat Oshoala who signed for Liverpool Ladies on Friday, 23 January, 2015, has scored her first goal for the team. Oshoala, who was signed by Liverpool from Rivers Angels...

Liverpool Coach Celebrates Signing Oshoala

January 23 Female Football, Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 5 comments

Liverpool Ladies of England Coach Matt Beard is excited his club signed a good talent in Asisat Oshoala of Nigeria. Oshoala completed her move to Liverpool from Rivers Angels FC of Port Harcourt, and her new coach descri...

Awoniyi Cleared For African Tourney

December 31 African Youth Games, Football, National Teams, Nigerian Players Abroad 3 comments

Swedish club Kalmar have released striker Taiwo Awoniyi for the 2015 African Youth Championship (AYC) in Senegal. Awoniyi, 18 in August 2015, is one of nine foreign-based professionals called up by Nigeria’s Flying Eagle...

Quadri: Our Headache As Nigerian Stars

December 30 Interviews, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles, Table Tennis 6 comments

.Describes 2014 As His Best Ever        – National table tennis star Aruna Quadri, who is currently Africa’s Number One player and Number 30 in the World, told eyeonthesports.com he is ending 2014 on a high. ...

Liverpool Offer Borini Plus £8 For Onazi

December 29 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 8 comments

Liverpool have reportedly offered Fabio Borini to Lazio in exchange for Nigeria midfielder Ogenyi Onazi. According to report in Italian and English media, Onazi is a January transfer target for the Anfield giants and the...

Chioma ‘Arrests’ Uzoenyi In Enugu

December 29 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 39 comments

It was another memorable time for the Super Eagles at the weekend, as former Rangers International of Enugu winger, Ejike Uzoenyi was finally ‘arrested’ by his beautiful sweetheart, Chioma Loveth Uzoenyi. Uzo...

Ik Uche Relishes Bright End To 2014

December 22 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 34 comments

Nigeria international Ikechukwu Uche has expressed happiness after his team ended the year with a resounding victory over Deportivo La Coruna on Sunday. The Super Eagles forward was on for 46 minutes before he was replac...

Ukor Free To Play For Nigeria, Says FIFA

December 19 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 28 comments

Former Switzerland junior international Steven Ukoh has been cleared by FIFA to play for Nigeria at full international level. A report monitored on supersport.com revealed that the 23-year-old, who currently plays for Sw...

Ejike Uzoenyi ‘Faces Arrest’

December 7 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 9 comments

.As Eagles’ Star Ties The Knot With Chioma In Enugu   Super Eagles of Nigeria striker Ejike Uzoenyi, who recently moved from Rangers International of Enugu to Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa is set to be ...

Enyeama Loses BBC Award To Brahimi

December 2 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 9 comments

Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014. The 24-year-old midfielder, who beat Nigerian number one goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama to the award, becomes the first Algerian to win the award, wh...

Eagles’ AFCON Failure Devastates Nigeria -Aluko

November 21 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad 3 comments

Hull City of England player Sone Aluko says African champions Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been left reeling after they failed to qualify for next year’s CAF Africa Cup of Nations to defend their title. The Su...

Musa, Enyeama Shortlisted For African Player Of The Year Award

November 8 Football, National Teams, Nigerian Players Abroad, Players Profiles 4 comments

Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa and Vincent Enyeama have been included in the list of 25 players shortlisted as the Confederation Africaine de Football, CAF, announced nominees for the 2014 African Player of the Year. Of the ...

Musa Inspires CSKA, As City’s UEFA Hope Slips

November 6 Football, Nigerian Players Abroad, UEFA Champions League 4 comments

By Tunde Oyedele – Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa and his CSKA Moscow teammates put up a fantastic show, as they defeated Manchester City 2-1 in Thursday’s UEFA Champions League match at Etihad Stadium in London...

Chrisantus Moves To Turkish League

July 22 Nigerian Players Abroad 50 comments

Former Nigeria youth international, Chrisantus Macauley has joined Turkey Super Lig club, Sivasspor. The 23-year-old old joined from Spain’s second division side, Segunda Las Palmas where he scored 20 league goals in 67 ...