Late Thursday night till early Friday morning there is this news about a story or a report going which is a fallout of the meeting the club owners in the nigeria professional football league they had with the league management board who are the overseer of the league in Nigeria which is about the resumption of date of the league in which the football lovers of each clubs will be glad waiting to watch and support their darling club but as at friday evening there is no assurance of the league kicking of very soon which is a fall of the meeting report in air..
and now that lobbi stars who are currently on the top of the log have been maybe decleared champion and they will represent nigeria in the caf champions league next season and that those that are on the relegation zone will not relegate actually but that there will be opportunity for more teams joining the league at least 4 clubs joining from the nnl nigeria national league which is the 2nd tier of the Nigeria football from next season and with this there are 24 teams in the nigeria professional league which they are going to be prosecuting next season between the month of november this year and may next year according to the news out its just a bid out the nigeria league calender to be uniform with the european calender..
But reaction has been coming from the likes of kano pillars plateau united eyimba and even akwa united that maybe probably if the league should be played to the end they might be the champion because they were all improving on their form until the time when the league went on break it wont go down well with them but they have no choice and for the teams that are down on the league the likes of sunshine stars heartland and kwara united with the rest of them will be excited that towards the end, Champions of the season they will survive the relegation fight am sure by now they will be happy with it but for me it is not that good. a brief of the statement made by the league management board upon consideration of different conditions they presented five options for the league to either continue of stopped it was unanimously agreed by the 20 npfl clubs that the 2017/2018 league should be concluded and the team at the top of the table will be crown champion and represent Nigeria in the CAF confederation cup.
French league one side lile has reached a mutual termination contract with former nigeria goalkeeper vincent enyema joined lile in 2011 from isreali side apoel tel aviv the 36 years old shot stopper who missed the entire season last year due to injury he sustained in april 2017 however free to join any club of his choice after spending 7years at the club.. enyema went 21 games without conceding a goal in 38 league games during the 2013/2014 season
Arsenal has been drawn alongside sporting lisbon in the group stage of the europa league competition unai emery side has been drawn in group e this season competition with the portuguese club qarabag and the ukrainian side vorskla..
chelsea who won the competition in 2012 /2013 season are in group L welcoming belarusian title holders bate and hungarian side vidi
my toughest group is group g
The full list of the group goes thus
group A bayer leverkusen ger ludogorets bul zürich sui aek larnaca cyp
group b salzburg aut celtic sco rb leipzig ger rosenborg nor
group c zenit rus københavn den bordeaux fra slavia praha cze
group d anderlecht bel fenerbahçe tur dinamo zagreb cro spartak trnava svk
group e arsenal eng sporting cp por qarabağ aze vorskla poltava ukr
group f: olympiacos gre ac milan ita real betis esp dudelange lux
group g villarreal esp rapid wien aut spartak moskva rus rangers sco
group h lazio ita marseille fra eintracht frankfurt ger apollon cyp
group i: beşiktaş tur genk bel malmö swe sarpsborg nor
group j sevilla esp krasnodar rus standard liège bel akhisar belediyespor tur
group k dynamo kyiv ukr astana kaz rennes fra jablonec cze
group l: chelsea eng paok gre bate borisov blr vidi hun
and the fixtures will kick start on the 20th of september
chelsea new manager sarri has been nominated as the premier league manager of the month of august along side with pochetino of tottenham hotspur jogen klop of liverpool and javi gracia of watford city all the four managers have won their opening 3 games in the english premier league so far why the winners of the award will be announced next week
usain bolt today make his professional football debut as he was sub on in central coast mariners with 19minute remaining the jamaican who started on the bench but came on with the score at 6-nil but failed to make much of an impact in the minute as he was given the game finishing 6-1 to the home side but admitted such experience is one of the beautiful momment for him..
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