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NIGERIAN SPORTS TODAY
August 13, 2008

• Official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Website
  
  Medals table
  Schedule
  Olympics blog
   
• Confederation Of African Football

 

• FIFA
   

• FIFA Globalcom Premier League
   

• EYINBA Globalcom Premier League
   

• BasketballTV

 
 

• Under-23 Faces U.S.A. In Decisive Match
  Nigeria's U-23 team will play the U.S.A. on Wednesday in a match it must win to qualify for the last eight of the football event of the ongoing Beijing Olympics. Daily Independent
   
• We’ve got to win, says Nsofor - As Nigeria, USA slug it out
  NIGERIA'S Dream Team IV, on four points, is in a Group B grudge match with the USA, which has also won one and drawn one. Tribune
   
• Dream Team’ll cope without Apam - Siasia
  NIGERIA’s coach, Samson Siasia concedes that central defender Onyekachi Apam will be a huge miss when Dream Team IV takes on the USA in the final group game today, but says the team has reliable options to fall back on. Tribune
   
• Bonfrere lands in Nigeria’s camp
  DREAM Team IV is getting inspiration, and not a few tips from Atlanta 96 gold medal winning coach Johannes Bonfrere as it continues its campaign to repeat the feat of the class of 1996. Tribune
   
• NFF blast TSG 1899 over Ogbuke
  Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) took the bull by the horns on Tuesday when they turned down TSG 1899 request to release Dream Team striker, Chinedu Ogbuke, even at the middle of the Olympic soccer event. The German club had written to the Secretary General of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC)| The Sun
   
• Survival battle!
  Nigeria’s Dream Team IV face an arduous task today in Beijing as they take on United States of America male football team in what experts have dubbed battle of survival.| The Sun
   
• Nothing Gold Comes Easy – Siasia
  Samson Siasia has parried suggestions that his Nigeria Olympic men’s...Vanguard
   
• Bonfrere re-joins Dream Team
  Dutch coach Johannes  Bonfrere, the man who led the Nigeria...Vanguard
   
• Nigeria refuse request for Ogbuke
  Nigeria officials say Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi will remain at the Olympics despite being asked to return to Germany by his club 1899 Hoffenheim. BBC
   
• Togo claims first Olympic medal
  Togo wins its first Olympic medal as Benjamin Boukpeti takes bronze in the men's kayak slalom. BBC