David Moyes agrees United pay-off

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LONDON  (AFP) – David Moyes has reached agreement with Manchester United over the size of his pay-off, England’s League Managers’ Association announced Friday.

United sacked Moyes on Tuesday, just 10 months into the Scot’s six-year contract.

The past few days have seen seen Moyes and LMA representatives holding talks with faltering Premier League champions United and on Friday the LMA said terms had been agreed.

“The League Managers Association and Manchester United are pleased to confirm that terms of settlement have been agreed between the Club and David Moyes in respect of the termination of his employment,” the LMA said in a statement.

“A settlement agreement is in the process of being finalised. No further comment will be made in relation to this issue.”

The LMA statement did not say how much Moyes, the man retired former United manager Alex Ferguson wanted to replace him after he stood down at the end of last season, would be paid as part of his severance deal.

Following Moyes’s sacking, there were widespread reports in the British media that his pay-off would be capped at less than £5 million out of his £30 million deal ($50m, 36m euros).

It was reported that he had lost out on a larger compensation package through an ‘ejector seat’ clause in his contract, limiting his money to 12 months’ salary if the club failed to qualify for the Champions League, something that was confirmed after United’s 2-0 defeat by Everton.

United are currently seventh in the table and, having been knocked out of both domestic cups and the Champions League, will endure a trophy-less season.

This campaign will see United record their worst points total in the Premier League era and their highest number of home defeats since 1978 — including 3-0 drubbings by bitter rivals Liverpool and Manchester City.

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Ex-Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova dies at 45

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BARCELONA  (AFP) – Former Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova died on Friday at the age of 45 after a prolonged battle against cancer, the club announced.

Vilanova was diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland more than two years ago and was forced to step down as Barcelona boss last July due to ongoing health problems.

Tito Vilanova

“FC Barcelona is sad to inform that Francesc ‘Tito’ Vilanova Bayo has passed away today at the age of 45,” Barcelona said in a statement.

“The death of our former coach came about this afternoon after he could not overcome the illness he had been fighting since 2011.

“The club wishes to express its deep condolences to his family, with whom we share this painful moment along with the club members, fans and the whole world of football and sport.”

Barcelona also announced that a space will be opened at their Camp Nou stadium for those willing to pay their respects over the next few days

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Flying Eagles not yet there, says team defender, Nwakali

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Abuja – Chidiebere Nwakali, Flying Eagles and Manchester City’s defender, on Friday in Abuja said the National U-20 team was not where it was supposed to be yet.

Nwakali made the remarks after the team thrashed Nigeria Nation-Wide League (NNWL) side FC Abuja 7-2 in a test match played at the FIFA Goal project.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the test match was in continuation of preparations for the team’s 2015 African Youth Championship (AYC) Qualifiers scheduled for next month.

“We are not there yet because in the game of football, once you begin to rate yourself high, the game will disrespect you.

“But each time you respect the round leather game, it will also respect you,’’ he said.

He praised the coach and the technical crew for doing a good job, adding that the players had been put through very intensive training sessions to bring out the best in them.

“I thank God for the kind of coaches we have and the information at our disposal because we play more of information rather than formation.

“I believe with the kind of information we have been exposed to, we can conquer any team that come our way,’’ he said.

The defender noted that he would bring his wealth of experience from abroad into the team as they prepare for the African qualifiers.

“The experience I had abroad was more of tactical training, but here, we combine both tactical and technical training, which makes us stronger than them over there.

“The technical experience which Kelechi Iheanacho and I got from Coach Manu Garba and his crew was what gave us an edge.

“It makes us excel in the Manchester Youth team as well as train with the first team,’’ he said.

Nwakali also said that he and Kelechi were looking forward to breaking into Manchester City’s senior team.

“All we need is an opportunity to play; once that opportunity comes we will grab it with both hands and never let it slip away.

“As Nigerians, we always have a very strong mentality toward the game and we can fight to conquer any challenge that comes our way,’’ he said.

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Deadlock: NFF holds back Keshi’s list

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Ahead of the nation’s pre-parations for the World Cup in Brazil, a meeting between the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Technical Committee and Coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi ended in a deadlock yesterday.

The meeting which lasted for about three hours was attended by Chairman of the football ruling body Alhaji Aminu Maigari, Keshi and other members of the Technical Committee.

Indications that the meeting ended in a deadlock emerged after  Keshi had informed sports reporters that he had submitted a tentative list of 37 or 38 players to the Committee only for Paul Bassey who spoke on behalf of the Committee to decline releasing the list. He only stated that NFF needs to make more consultations before releasing the list in a week’s time.

Bassey further said the Committee focused on the preparation programme of the Technical Committee for the Mundial adding that NFF would surely meet the deadline of May 10 for the submission of a provisional list of 30 players to FIFA.

According to Bassey: “We have decided to shelve release of the list until further consultations are made. We took the opportunity to look at the preparation programme of the Technical Committee.

This includes the issue of personnel and others.”Keshi had earlier on said: “ I have submitted the list to the NFF Technical Committee. Mr Paul Bassey would tell you more about that. I submitted a list of 37 or 38 players. From that, I will draw up another provisional list of 30 which is what FIFA needs.”

Commenting on the criteria he used for selecting players in his list, Keshi said it was only by watching them play in the national team’s matches and those of different clubs they belong to.

In response to another question he said he didn’t yet know how many local players would be on his final list since the final list wasn’t yet out.

Earlier on, Chairman NFF Alhaji Aminu Maigari said the football ruling body would welcome any support from the Presidency towards ensuring the successful outing of the team at the mundial adding that the composition of the final team list remains the prerogative of the Coach.

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Iheanacho, Nwakali rue Man City’s slump in EPL

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Two members of the Manchester City youth team, Kelechi Iheanacho and Chidiebere Nwakali, have expressed sadness at the recent slump of the Citizens in the Barclays English Premier League.

Iheanacho and Nwakali both impressed with Nigeria’s under-17s at the 2013 Fifa World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and were duly snapped up by City.
A 2-3 defeat at Liverpool was followed by a 2-2 draw at home to Sunderland to all but sound the death knell on City’s title charge this season and the two Nigerian youngsters have expressed sadness at the situation.

“I have to feel bad (at the recent bad results) because it’s my team. I however know that if the league title is destined to be won by Man City, we will certainly win it,” Iheanacho said.
Nwakali also spoke about City’s recent poor run of results, noting that he had been confident all along that the title was headed to the Etihad Stadium.

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NFF charges Falcons on 2014 AWC

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The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has challenged the Super Falcons not to rest on their oars as they prepare for the African Women Championship qualifiers
The football body  urged the nation’s senior women side to put in their best towards qualifying for this year’s African Women Championship to be staged in Namibia.

Falcons tutored by Edwin Okon are currently in camp for an international friendly against the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon before playing the Rwanda female national team for the AWC which also serves as qualifiers for the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup.

“I have been mandated by the Federation to address you on the need for all hands to be on deck towards achieving the task of qualifying for the AWC to be hosted in Namibia,” Sanusi Mohammed, NFF’s Director of Competition told the players after Wednesday’s training.

“We have a very Herculean task ahead of us,only three teams will qualify to represent Africa at the next FIFA women senior world in Canada.
“Countries like South Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana and other upcoming countries are not lying low to see that they too qualify for the World Cup.

“ I know it is the dream of every player to represent her country at the World Cup, so if you want to see yourself qualify and play at the world stage you must be responsive and attentive to whatever you are told to do by your coaches,” he concluded.

The Super Falcons crashed out of the group stage of the 2011 edition hosted by Germany after losing to the hosts and France despite defeating Canada 1-0 in the last group game.

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Brazil World Cup: Eagles get S/Final target

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As the zero hour approaches swiftly for the Brazil World Cup( 58 days to go),  Super Eagles have been given a semi final target.

The Nigerian Supporters Club(Worldwide) in a World Press conference yesterday at their Ayinde Giwa secretariat set the target noting that the target was solely for musical group who have been the back-bone of all national teams at all international competitions.

‘’Let me emphasise that this target is not from the Nigeria Football Federation or for the players. This is what we promised ourselves that the Super Eagles will get to the semi-final of the World Cup. And we are going to follow-up with prayers and fasting to achieve it’’, President General of the Supporters Club(Worldwide) Dr Rafiu Ladipo said.

He regretted that it was appalling that the Eagles who made their debut in USA ’94 and qualified for France ’98 and reached the second round  respectively have not crossed that hurdle
in 2002 and 2010.

‘’It is not a good omen for us that instead of progressing we are retrogressing. This year, we’re going to break that yoke of a first or second round  exits and go all the way to the semi-final and anything can happen from there’’, he said as the crowded hall quaked with a resounding ‘’Amen’’.

He pleaded with Nigerians to support the Super Eagles in their quest to break grounds in Brazil.

File photo: Nigerian players pose prior to the 2013 African Cup of Nations semi-final football match Mali vs Nigeria AFP PHOTO

‘’This is not the time for distractions or divisive comments. This is the only thing that gives millions of Nigerians joy in the midst of hardship in the country’’.

Dr Ladipo also pleaded with corporate organisations to support the Supporters club as he announced that the Supporters Club would need a whopping N800 million to carter for their 800 army of supporters to Brazil.
‘’300 supporters from home will be flying to Brazil while 500 will from other parts of Africa, Europe, America. We happen to have representatives in all these countries.

A break-down of the expenses show that each supporter would pay $90 per match ticket in the first round and increases from the second round, Accommodation would gulp $250, 000 while transportation would be hectic as movement from one Eagles match venue to the next venue would see them spending 22 hours using a a fast train.

‘’We can’t afford to fly by air as that one is beyond us. We thank President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for his reception for us and his gift of N50 million.

Also, as part of their activities for the World Cup they plan to release a new song for the Eagles for the Brazil World Cup. ‘’Music is a tonic that propels Eagles to soar higher’’, Ladipo said.

And truly, the music army entertained guests with their danceable tunes promising to do more at the unveiling of the new song for Super Eagles.

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Iran runs to South Africa for Eagles

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Carlos Queiroz, manager of Iran, Nigeria’s World Cup opponents has named a 28-man Asia-based squad for the tournament. They will be joined later by players from European leagues.

Queiroz selected the roster the day after the end of the season in Iran – with the league won in dramatic fashion by Foolad Khuzestan.

His 28 troops will now take part in a training camp in South Africa. The biggest omission from the list – that consists of 26 players from Iran’s domestic league and two players from Persian Gulf leagues – is Ali Karimi, highly popular experienced midfielder dubbed “the Maradona of Asia”, who retired from international football in 2013 but recently changed his mind in hope for World Cup call-up.

Two other veteran playmakers – Mojtaba Jabbari and Mohammad Nouri – were also dropped, as Queiroz opted for fresh faces like Foolad’s captain, Bakhtiar Rahmani.

Several Europe-based players – such as Ashkan Dejagah and Reza Ghoochannejhad – will join the team in May for the next stage of preparations in Austria.

The 23-day pre-World Cup camp will start April 14 and Iran will likely play a friendly match with Mozambique in the camp.

Iran has been pitted against Argentina, Nigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2014 World Cup.

Carlos Queiroz’s men will face Trinidad and Tobago in their final preparation for the 2014 World Cup. The match will be played on June 8 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Iran will play Nigeria in Curitiba on June 16.

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Liverpool clash: Kompany in, Aguero on bench for Man City

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LIVERPOOL – Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany overcame an injury scare to take his place in the starting line-up for his side’s top-of-the-table Premier League clash at Liverpool on Sunday.

The Belgian centre-back appeared in danger of missing the game after hobbling out of a training session on Saturday, but he was included in Manuel Pellegrini’s starting XI at Anfield alongside Martin Demichelis.

Top scorer Sergio Aguero was named on the bench for the visitors, meanwhile, after sitting out their previous five matches with a hamstring problem.

Liverpool, the Premier League leaders, were unchanged from their 2-1 victory at West Ham United last weekend.

The showdown at Anfield has been billed as a title decider. Liverpool went into the game four points above third-place City in the table, but having played two games more.

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Nigerian refs to get world cup chance in 2018

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FIFA referees assistant programme instructor, Lee Kim Chong stated in Abuja that Nigeria referees could get the chance to officiate in their first ever world cup in 2018.

Kim Chong said that with the kind of programme the Nigeria referees embarked upon, they are most like to finally make the cut for the list of referees for the world cup.

Chong who was the center referee when the Super Eagles won Zambia 2-1 to lift 1994 Nations Cup in Tunisia also pointed that unlike before Nigeria now has more qualified referees who are called to officiate at international competitions.

He said “Nigeria is coming up gradually and has many referees who are fit. This year alone, a good number of them have officiated at CAF organized competitions and they did well.

“There are lots of potentials who I have seen myself and I know that before 2018, some of them will be mature to be selected to officiate at the world cup. I have been in Nigeria severally; I was in Aba when I officiated Enyimba match. I have also been involved in some qualifiers involving Nigeria.

Chong bemoaned lack of tactical and technological know how by some Nigeria referees but implored them to brace up to square up with challenges ahead.

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