LMC Releases Team List Ahead Of Tournament
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The League Management Company has released a 35- man list to commence training in Abuja ahead of an International Professional League tournament in Spain in August. Lilian Chidi reports.
The list is made up of four goalkeepers, eight defenders, three defensive midfielders, seven central midfielders, seven wingers and six forwards.
Enyimba goalkeeper Theophilus Afelokhai, Rangers forward Chisom Egbuchulam and Pillars star midfielder Ifeanyi Matthew. The 35-man squad will begin training in Abuja on Monday ahead of series of matches in Spain next month.
A letter signed by the Chief Operating Officer of the League Management Company, Salihu Abubakar directed the invited players to report for the first phase of camping billed to open on July 11 to 18th.
The letter stated that the players, during the period, would be released to play for their clubs in league and Federation Cup fixtures.
The second and final phases of the camping will open on August.
In a related development, the Flying Eagles will depart for Sudan on Thursday July 7th, ahead of a clash with Sudan.
In Basketball,
Nigeria’s senior national men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, began their Olympic preparations on a bright note, beating the Chinese team, hosts of a four-nation tournament, the 2016 Stankovic Cup in Beijing 79-71.
The Coach of the Chinese team, Gong Luming blamed the loss on the absence of his key players and former NBA star Yi Jianlian.
D’Tigers also played without some key players like Al-Farouq Aminu, who just concluded his basketball camp in Ibadan, his brother Alade, NBA star, Victor Ezeli and new NBA draft, Mike Gbinije.
Nigerian athletes have lamented poor camping conditions and non-payment of their allowances ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Nigeria’s preparations for the global games have been marred by alleged non-release of funds for preparations.
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, had claimed to be in the dark on how a 2.9 billion naira released for the welfare of Team Nigeria was spent.
In another development, a High Court judge Thokozile Masipa, has sentenced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius to jail for six years, for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp three years ago.
Masipa, in her ruling, said that the accused was not depressed when he carried the out the act.
The ruling comes after Pristorius was freed from a Pretoria prison in October after serving one year of a five-year term for culpable homicide.
Pistorius, 29, shot Steenkamp in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, claiming he mistook her for a burglar when he fired four times through the door of his bedroom toilet.
Meanwhile Pistorius lawyer said he would not appeal the sentence.
A court in Spain has sentenced Barcelona striker Lionel Messi and his father to 21 months in jail for tax fraud.
The Court of Catalonia found the Argentina international and his father Jorge Horacio Messi guilty of using companies in Belize, Britain, Switzerland and Uruguay to evade tax payment to the tune of 4.16 million Euros of Messi's income earned from his image rights from 2007-2009.
Messi, 29, a five time FIFA World Player winner, was fined 2.09 million euros while his father was fined 1.6 million euros.
The football player had told the court during the four-day trial that wrapped up on June 4 that he trusted his father with his finances and "knew nothing."
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