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Landmark book on Super Eagles now available at RovingHeights
As the players of the Super Eagles begin to assemble this week to kick-start their quest for a seventh qualification for the World Cup in Qatar next year, the land book on what is easily Nigeria’s lead brand in sports is now available at leading books outlet, the RovingHeights Nigeria Limited.
The Online Bookstore operates In-store shopping, in-store pick-up as well as delivery services from their Lagos and Abuja outlets can also be accessed through https: //rhbooks.com.ng/.
Written by Kunle Solaja, the book, “Super Eagles@70…Soaring on the Wings” is a compendium on Nigeria’s national football team and has been commended by leading national figures.
In the letter personally signed by the sports-loving former governor of Lagos State and currently a two-term Works and Housing Minister, Babtunde Raji Fashola, a legal luminary congratulated the author, Kunle Solaja for the “unique effort to document and put in very illuminating perspective our country’s worthy 70 years of soccer history.”
The book which chronicles the Nigerian national football team from inception in 1949 till date is supported by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Commending the book, Mr. Fashola remarked: “I write with deep pleasure and gratitude to acknowledge the receipt of your delightful book … and to say that chronicling of 70 years of the growth and achievements of our dear country’s foremost soccer ambassadors, especially at this time, is both refreshing and morale-boosting.
“The uniqueness of the book, I must say, lies in its historic outlay with memorable photographs and nostalgia evoking texts on the foundation members of the team, who motivated by sheer patriotism and love for their country, played barefooted to bring honour and glory to our nation.
“It also manifests in the exciting nuggets of information about historic moments in the evolution of the national team and even its colours which has over the last 70 years transmogrified from plain green and white to the variegated and designer varieties.”
In an earlier comment, former national captain and easily a continental football icon, Segun Odegbami remarked: “If anyone can do justice to the delicate subject of chronicling the Super Eagles, Kunle Solaja’s name would pop up first. His eyes for detail and authenticity are unequalled in our ‘football planet’.
Written in lucid and infographic manner, virtually all that is needed about the Super Eagles is encapsulated in one package
It is written by Kunle Solaja, the only journalist in Africa to have covered eight consecutive World Cup finals from 1990 to 2018, and with great prospects of covering more – A 28-year adventure at the zenith of global football.
He is consequently the most imbued with the depth of information regarding the Super Eagles’ adventures at the six World Cup finals that the team has featured in.
He watched every minute of the 21 World Cup matches the Super Eagles played from USA ’94 to Russia 2018.
The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) has sacked its Serbian coach, Milutin Sredojević who is popularly known as Micho.
This is coming ahead of Libya’s back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations clashes with Nigeria next month.
Paradoxically, Sports Village Square gathered that the coach’s contract was only recently renewed for six months before the axe fell on the Serbian.
His sack was precipitated by the results obtained in their teo matches of the AFCON qualifiers.
Libya drew 1-1 with Rwanda at home and lost 2-1 away to Benin Republic despite beig a goal up at half time.
The Libyan side, Mediterranean Knights are due to play against the Nigeria Super Eagles in Uyo on 6 October while the return leg holds on 14 October at the 11 July Stadium in Tripoli.
According to information Sports Village Square gathered from Tripoli, the Mediterranean Knights’ coach, Micho led the Libyan national team to win nine matches since taking over in October of last year, he failed to build a strong team due to his poor choices.
He also took a risk with the footballers chosen in the AFCON qualifiers, and the result was shocking to the Libyan sports audience.
According to sources close to the Libyan Football Federation, there is a strong tendency to sign a national coach to lead the Libyan team during the remaining qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations.
CAF President Patrice Motsepe has lashed out at Ghana and some other African countries whose home grounds were recently banned from hosting CAF matches owing to inadequate facilities. He made the remarks in Nairobi, Kenya during a press conference,
After the MatchDay 2 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, CAF ruled Ghana’s Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi as being inadequate to host international matches. Being the only approved ground in the country, Ghana will now look towards either Cote d’Ivoire or Togo for their remaining home matches of the Afcon qualifiers.
Other African countries without approved home grounds are: Djibouti, Chad, Niger, Eritrea, Gabon, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, São Tomé and Burundi.
Motsepe voiced his frustration over the recurring issue of nations being unable to host home games.
“Nothing frustrates me more than a national team or club side having to play home matches outside,” he stated.
He stressed the significance of playing in front of home fans, adding, “You can’t grow football if the national teams or club sides aren’t playing in front of their home fans.”
Motsepe reiterated CAF’s commitment to working with countries to ensure they have at least one suitable stadium to host international fixtures.
“Our conversations in every country are to make sure there is at least one stadium capable of hosting a CAF category C game,” he emphasized.
The on-going CAF AFCON Cote d’Ivoire 2023 Coaches Symposium in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire has brought together, the last three coaches that handled the Nigeria national football team.
Gernot Rohr, Jose Peseiro and Austin Eguavoen are part of the the elite coaches currently gathered in Abidjan.
Gernot Rohr whose tenure of 5 years and 55 matches is the longest ever by any coach in Nigeria, is currently handling Nigeria’s Africa Cupof Nations and World Cup qualifying rivals, Benin Republic. He was succeeded in the interim by Austin Eguavoen who is currently having another interim stint.
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