Tag: SPORTS FLAKES

There really was something between Enugu Rangers and the United States shortly after they won their first Challenge Cup in ...

Enyimba's jinx breaking CAF Champions League victory in 2003 came to many as a huge surprise. Here was a team ...

Shooting Stars victory in the maiden edition of the CAF Cup was laced with drama. It began in the second ...

Hafia of Conakry denied Enugu Rangers the opportunity of being crowned first winners of the African Super Cup in 1978. ...

Fifteen years before the Green Eagles won the African Nations Cup at Lagos '80, two Nigerians lifted the trophy playing ...

Austin Okocha and Ghana's Anthony Yeboah were team mates at Bundesliga side, Eintracht Franfurt in 1993. Black Stars were in ...

Nojim Maiyegun made headlines at the Tokyo '64 Olympics when he won Nigeria's first medal. Fighting in the Light Middleweight ...

We met in 1991. Better still, he introduced himself as the Ernest Okonkwo of Zambian football. It was at the ...

Not much was known about Daniel Owofen Amokachi until he came to Lagos  with Ranchers Bees in 1989. Lagos Rangers, ...

Patrick Kluivert was a mere 17-year-old when he scored his first goal in a full game for Ajax Amsterdam. A ...

Nnamdi Nwokocha was indispensable in 1978 as Rangers went all out to win the elusive CAF Champions League . The ...

Philippe Troussier was a nobody in France until he came down to Africa as coach of ASEC Mimosas, Abidjan towards ...

Manu Garba was so lucky that as an assistant coach, he got a three bedroom bungalow worth 12 million naira ...