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NIGERIAN SPORTS TODAY
August 20, 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

 
 

• Give me the gold, Yar’Adua urges Siasia boys
  President Umaru Yar’Adua has urged Dream Team IV, Nigeria’s Olympic soccer team, to go for the gold medal as a present to him. Tribune
   
• Nigeria grabs first medal - at Beijing Olympics - Gets gold or silver on Saturday - Meets Argentina, again, in final
  NIGERIA is now certain to win a gold or silver medal at the current Olympic Games holding in Beijing, China. This is because Nigeria’s Under-23...Tribune
   
• It’s returns on investment - Globacom
  Globacom Limited, official Sponsors of the Nigeria Olympic Team, the Dream Team IV, has congratulated the players and coaches for reaching the finals of the football event of Beijing 2008 Olympics. Tribune
   
• Nigeria Wallops Belgium 4-1
  Nigeria will on Saturday dribble and pass the ball against Argentina in the men's soccer final in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, a potentially explosive duel, because the rough and ready and trickish South Americans would want to pay back their loss 12 years ago in Atlanta. Daily Independent
   
• Siasia's Boys End Team Nigeria's Medal Drought
  Samson Siasia ended Team Nigeria Beijing Olympics medal drought with U-23 4-1 defeat of Belgium on Tuesday to qualify for the final of the Olympic Games football event. Daily Independent
   
• Nigeria crush Belguim 4-1 to reach Olympic final
  Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi scored two goals, including one from 30 meters as Nigeria reached the Olympic football final with a 4-1 victory over Belgium yesterday at the National Stadium in Shanghai, China. Daily Trust
   
• We're in final for Gold, says Siasia
  THE last time Samson Siasia led Nigeria to a world championship, he won a silver medal. That was the World Youth Soccer Championship in Holland three years ago. Vanguard
   
• Hustling with sports minister: A message to President Yar Adua
  The two women looked ordinary. They couldn’t have been  so...Vanguard
   
• Nigeria, Argentina for football finals
  TWELVE years after Nigeria's U-23 football team defeated Argentina to become the first non-European country to win the soccer Olympics gold medal, the two countries are set to meet in another final after thrilling semi-final matches in which the Africans beat Belgium 4-1, and the South Americans defeated their continental arch-rivals Brazil 3-0. Guardian
   
• Slick Nigeria crush sorry Belgium
  Nigeria's Olympic team has powered into the final of the men's competition with a 4-1 win over surprise semi-finalists Belgium in Shanghai. BBC
   
• Nigerians' joy at Olympic success
  There have been scenes of joy in Nigeria after their Olympic football team reached the finals in China. BBC