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Ex U-23 Olympic Champion Set To Leave Portsmouth


gabriel
18th June 2007

FIFA age group competitions hero about to transfer next season.


Former World U-17 and World/Olympic U-23 Champion, Nwankwo Kanu is set to leave Portsmouth FC of England after talks on a 2 year contract with his club Manager, Harru Redknapp failed.
Redknapp offered kanu a one year contract with an option for another year if he played up to 20 games next season. Kanu however wants a straight two-year contract and wants to settle foe nothing less.


The creative midfielder is linked with a move to Germany to join Weder Bremen or alternatively, a return to Ajax Amsterdam, the club that shot him to prominence as a teenager and with whom he won the UEFA Champions League in 1995.



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Olympics Qualifier: Nigeria-Algeria 6-0 ( 2-0 )


gabriel
18th June 2007

Falconets of Nigeria desend heavily on Desert Queens of Algeria.


The Nigeria’s U-23 female team on Sunday defeated Algeria 6-0 in the second leg of an Olympics 2008 qualifier played in Abuja.
After an unexpected 1-0 defeat in Algiers, most likely from overconfidence on the part of the Nigerians, the African Champions were back to their usual best, sending six goals across the goal line of the North Africans.

Pepetua Nwocha scored three of the goals while Ifeanyi Chiejine scored two an Rita Chikelu scored one.


The Coach of the team , Jossy lad was happy with the coreline and said his team will still better the result and peformance in subsequent matches.


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Barcelona's Emerging 16-year Olds


gabriel
15th June 2007

Euro age group wonder-kid, Bojan Krkic and Barca B teammate, Giovanni need not worry about their replacements at Barca B.


Should Bojan and Giovanni leave, their place will be suitably filled by some very good 16 year old players who will also look to ascend to the seniors in the future.
Read brief profiles on them:


Thiago Alcantara:

He recently turned 16 years and was recruited under he direct orders of Garcia Pepper.
This young star is technically superior over most players of his age and carries bullets at both feet, shooting vehemently with both his left foot and right foot.

It is impossible to stop him when he is on the move with the ball and has an extreme maturity for football and great understanding of the game not expected of a player of his age.


His favourite area on the pitch tends toward the centre-left and is already being compared to Deco's style of play in that area when he plays on the pitch.
Though bearing Nascimento, is not the son of Brazilian football great Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, otherewise known as Pele.


Dani Pacheco

Nicknamed The Killer, this 16 year old who came in from Mallaga has been dazzling football onlookers ever since. His natural gift is in goalscoring and he somehow always manages to get the ball in the net despite the number of defenders around him.
He looks like a candidate to chase the record of Barca B goal machine , Bojan Krkic who has an amazing 889 goals in his kitty.

He has well graduated form the standards of the cadets and is a natural born scorer, who has had impressive goal tallies to his sheet, including series of hat-tricks, braces and singular strikes that have changed the entire course of games he has played in.


Gay Assulin:
This young Israeli talent, who only turned 16 on the 9th of April, will shake up the scenes at Barca B and turn the world stage alight in the senior category if he continues to destroy opponents the way he is currently doing.

Assulin reproduces the magic and magnificence of Barca senior team Idol, Ronaldinho and his courage in displacing much older opponents, while maintaing the same level of matured play with his older teammates is a thing of commendation.
The young magician is already being chased by English club, Chelsea FC, who have openly made it known he is the youth player they have been looking for.


The soccer world awaits the evolution of these young players as they will surely add a lot of spice of a different sort with their fresh new skills.








Pacheco, Thiago and Assulin




From Left: Pacheco, Thiago and Assulin







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