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  • Ex-U20 star Taiwo offers Flying Eagles tips to win in  Egypt

    Ex-U20 star Taiwo offers Flying Eagles tips to win in  Egypt

    Former youth international,  Taiye Taiwo has urged  the current Flying Eagles to believe in themselves and play their normal game in Egypt if they want to go far  at the CAF Under U20 Africa Cup of Nations.

    Nigeria will begin their chase for World Cup ticket next week Thursday with a Group B tie against Tunisia before games with Morocco and Kenya on May 4th  and 7th.

    Taiwo, who was in the Flying Eagles squad to the 2005 African Youth Championship held in Cotonou, Benin Republic en route to the FIFA U20 World Youth Championship in Netherlands implored the Aliyu Zubairu-led team to play with utmost  confidence.

    The former Super Eagles and AC Milan left back recalled how he and his teammates pumped up themselves for the task ahead in Benin Republic and the World Cup where they got to the final before losing to Lionel Messi inspired Argentina.

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    “The most important thing is for them to believe in themselves and play their normal game,” Taiwo said on a sports programme on Lasgidi FM. “We played for the team. We spoke to ourselves and we said we should go and make ourselves happy and Nigeria too.

    “We didn’t care about the monetary incentive from the NFF and other football stakeholders. We were interested in making name for ourselves.

    “We were not afraid because we had the support of our coach, Samson Siasia.

    “We were proud of ourselves. Samson Siasia said he was proud of us that we won even if we lost.”

  • Youths urge FG, Lagos to reclaim sports centre

     

    Gowon Estate youths have appealed to the Federal and Lagos State Governments to reclaim the only Sports Centre in the Federal Housing Estate in Ipaja, taken over by land grabbers.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ground where the youth engage in sports, including a football pitch, has been turned into a sprawling mini-housing estate by the grabbers.

    The ground has also produced great footballers for the country, including Taiye Taiwo of the Super Eagles and Marseille FC of France fame. He is currently playing for Swiss club, Lausanne.

    The land grabbers apportioned the land and were building residential mansions, while shopping malls had been completed and a factory still under construction also.

    The Youth Leader, Eghe Ogunbor, told NAN that the government and the community leaders were to be blame for the sale of the land.

    “I will blame the government and the community leaders because they were here when the field was taken from us.

    “We tried our best as youths but we didn’t have their backing as some of them were against us.

    “The community leaders, instead of working in tandem with us, induced some youths to create another faction just because of what they got from the sports Centre sale.

    “They succeeded in scattering our joint effort to retrieve the sports centre,’’ he said.

    Ogunbor added that from the point the centre was hijacked, the youth took to vices.

    “The centre before now was used by youths in the sprawling estate to train in various sports but since it was taken from us, the reverse is the case.

  • Why we chose Taye Taiwo – FC Laussane-Sport

    Why we chose Taye Taiwo – FC Laussane-Sport

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    Following  Taye Taiwo’s  successful switch to FC Laussane -Sport, the Swiss club hopes that the Nigerian international would help in their recovery game against FC Lucerne on February 5.

    The management of the club stated: “This powerful defender of 31 years will reinforce the team until the end of the season 2016/2017, coming from the club of HJK Helsinki. Before his visit to Finland, the former Nigerian international has spent much of his career with Olympique de Marseille, the team with which he won the French Championship in 2010, before leaving for AC Milan in 2011.

    “After enjoying the Turkish championship with the Bursaspor team in the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons, he joined HJK Helsinki in 2015, with a total of 28 league games and 6 goals in two seasons in Finland. His career has allowed him to play a total of 76 matches on the European scene (Champions League and Europa League combined).

    “It is a real blow that the LS realizes by offering this player coveted by many clubs in recent months. Close to a return to OM this summer, it is finally on the shores of Lake Geneva that Taye Taiwo will be able to express all his talent.”

     

  • Taiye Taiwo quits Bursaspor

    Taiye Taiwo quits Bursaspor

    Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo has quit Turkish club Bursaspor after both parties agreed to part ways.

    The Turkish club announced this on its website.

    “Nigerian defender Taye Taiwo has mutually agreed to terminate his contract with our club,” africanFootball.com quoted Bursaspor as saying in a statement on its website.

    The 30-year-old defender signed a three-year deal with the Turkish club on July 5, 2013.

    He played 27 games with two goals for the club in 2013/2014 season and didn’t play any game for the club in the 2014/2015 season.

    He has played for Lobi, Gabros (Nigeria), Olympique Marseille (France), AC Milan (Italy), Queens Park Rangers (England) and Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine).

     

  • Bursaspor signs Taye Taiwo

    Bursaspor signs Taye Taiwo

    Ambitious Turkish club Bursaspor has signed Nigeria left back Taye Taiwo on a three-year deal, MTNFootball.com reports.

    The 28-year-old Ex-AC Milan player signed the contract with the Turkish side on Thursday, Bursaspor announced on its website.

    “A national team of Nigeria and AC Milan left-back Taye Taiwo has signed a three-year contract with Bursaspor,” disclosed the club who will likely feature in the UEFA Champions League following the disqualification of Fenerbache and Besiktas

    Incidentally, Bursaspor is also interested in Nigeria striker Ikechukwu Uche and will likely splash three million Euros to take him from Villarreal, who had won promotion back to the Spanish La Liga.

    Taiwo has 54 caps for Nigeria with five goals.