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46— Vanguard, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2019 Ndidi’s 4th most hard-working EPL player Wilfred Ndidi has been named among the top twenty hardest working players in the Premier League for the 2018-2019 season. The Leicester City midfielder covered a distance of 408.3 kilometers over the course of the campaign to place fourth on the list behind Crystal Palace’s Luka Milivojevic (447.1km), Burnley’s Jack Cork (445.6km) and Chelsea’s Jorginho (418.8km). The Nigeria international outranked the player he presumably replaced at The Foxes, N’Golo Kante, who covered a distance of 407 kilometers in 36 games to place fifth. Top stars jet in for Okpekpe Kenyan trio of Alex Korio (2015 men's champion),Simon Cheprot (2016 men's champion) and Polline Wanjiku (2016 women's champion) will lead over 35 international elite athletes to Nigeria today ahead of Saturday's IAAF silver label Okpekpe international 10km road race which holds in Okpekpe,a hilly,rustic twon in Etsako East local governmnet area of Edo state. The trio will be coming in with their focus on making history as the first man and woman to win two Okpekpe titles since the inaugural edition of the race in 2013. ''The athletes will come in through the Murtala Mohammed international airport Lagos and will be transported to Auchi where accommodation has been reserved for them. The athletes,together with their Nigerian counterparts will go on tour of the course on Friday in line with IAAF Ndidi, who was involved in all the 38 games contested by Leicester City in the Premier League, was the only African player that made the top 20 hardest workers in the division. César Azpilicueta (Chelsea), James McArthur (Crystal Palace), Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton), Abdoulaye Doucouré (Watford) and Ben Chilwell (Leicester) rounded off the top ten. Ndidi is set to link up with the Nigeria squad at their gettogether in Asaba on June 2 ahead of their trip to Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations. Iwobi to pocket N46.8m if Arsenal win Europa League Alex Iwobi is in line to pocket at least 100,000 pounds (approximately N46.8 million in Nigerian currency) if Arsenal beat Chelsea in the final of the Europa League on Wednesday, May 29. According to the Daily Mail, Arsenal are set to heavily reward •Iwobi their players if they win the Europa League and payments ranging from £100,000 to £500,000 will be made to the players, bringing the total payments to around £10 million. Ogbeide: NPFL to observe 60 seconds silence, wear black armband on MatchDay 22 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Coaches, Players and Officials are to honour late Coach Solomon Ogbeide by wearing black armbands during fixtures of MatchDay 22 on Sunday, May 26. Chairman of the League Management Company (LMC) Shehu Dikko who announced the decision, described the news of the Lobi Stars Coach as “a grave loss to the league and hundreds of players he trained in over two decades of his career as football coach in our league”. Ogbeide reportedly slumped and died Monday morning shortly after complaining of feeling unwell in Makurdi, hours before their last home fixture of the season. Dikko said the LMC would go to lengths to honour those who has contributed in any capacity to the development of the league. Moses glad to score Fenerbahce winner Former Super Eagles midfielder, Victor Moses was delighted to net the game winner for Fenerbahce as they registered a 1-0 win against BB Erzurumspor on Monday evening but admitted •Moses requirements,’revealed Mercy Etukudo,the race's head of secretariat who added that the athletes will get their registration done as soon as they arrive in Auchi and will be taken on a tour of the race course on Friday. 'This year's race will be explosive as we have assembled mostly 27 minutes runners for men and 31,32 minutes runners for women.A new course record looks a cast iron certainty on Saturday,'said Etukudo who predicted Ethiopia's Taye Grima,who holds the pre-race fastest time (28:07) could spoil Korio and Cheprot's bid for a slice of Okpekpe race history. Meanwhile final registration of all categories of athletes for the race will begin today. ‘’All registered athletes will be screened and accredited for the race which begins early Saturday morning in Okpekpe.They will be provided with their bib numbers as a sign of accreditation for the race,’explained Etukudo. “In addition to the black armbands, a minute silence will be observed before kickoff at all the match venues in honour of the veteran coach”, Dikko stated. •Ogbeide “Our thoughts are with his immediate family, with players and staff of Lobi Stars and with all the players he impacted their careers”, the LMC Boss continued. The late Coach guided Lobi Stars to the group stage of this year’s CAF Champions League after the club was declared winner of the 2017/18 NPFL. He joined the club in 2017 and has prior to then had worked with Julius Berger, the defunct Nigerdock, Warri Wolves and Sunshine Stars amongst others. that the opponents proved a tough nut to crack. BB Erzurumspor, who pay the wages of Emem Eduok, are involved in a relegation dogfight and were holding their illustrious opponents to a goalless draw until the 59th minute when Moses converted a spot kick. ‘’It is a massive three points for us today, we know that it was going to be a difficult game for us today, we know the position that the team we are playing against are in at the moment,’’ Moses told Fenerbahce TV after the game. ‘’They wanted to fight right from the start to the end but we showed a great character. ‘’We kept our foot firmly on the floor and the most important thing for us today was to get the three points. We did that today so we are very pleased.’’ With one game left before the end of the season, Fenerbahce are eighth on the 18-team table with 43 points accumulated from 33 games. •Ndidi The maximum amount Iwobi can receive as cash bonus is N234 million, if Unai Emery’s team win their f i r s t continental trophy since they won the d e f u n c t European Cup France 2019: Super Falcons arrive in Austria African champions Nigeria have landed at the Avita Resort facility in the Austrian city of Bad Tatzmannsdorf for a two –week residential camping ahead of the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals. A delegation including nine home –based professionals and technical and administrative staff departed from Abuja on Monday night aboard an Air France flight, and travelled from Paris to the Austrian capital, Vienna on Tuesday morning before connecting Bad Tatzmannsdorf. At the airport in Vienna, nine overseas –based professionals from different parts of the world joined the contingent, taking the number of players to 18. With England –based Ini-Abasi Umotong already waiting in camp, that made the total number 19, with only eight more expected. The world –renown Avita Resort is the same facility that served the Super Eagles in their final training sessions just before the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia. Coach Thomas Dennerby must pick his final squad of 23 by Friday this week. The final squad and officials will fly into France on 4th June. Nigeria take on Norway, Korea Republic and host nation France in the group phase of the championship, with their first coming up against Norway at the Stade Auguste Delauney in Reims on 8th June. Winners Cup in 1994. The Nigeria international penned a new deal with the Emirates Stadium outfit in August 2018 and it is believed that there is an agreement for bonus payments for European success inserted into the contract. Though Iwobi was a nonplaying substitute in both legs of the semifinal against Valencia, the Hale End Academy graduate has appeared in ten matches in this season’s Europa League, scoring one goal and providing two assists. Arsenal will face Yusuf Otubanjo’s LASK Linz in a behind-closed doors friendly on Thursday as part of their preparations for the Europa League showpiece. By Jacob Ajom, Enugu Cross River State male and female teams competing in the ongoing Nestle Milo Secondary Schools Basketball Championship have qualified for the Eastern Conference final. The matches come up today at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. While the female team will clash with Bayelsa, the boys have the Rivers State representatives to contend with in today’s final. To qualify for the final, Cross River state girls dominated their Rivers state counterparts 33-13 in the semifinal match played yesterday. Earlier, Bayelsa State team defeated their Enugu state opponents to qualify for the Poland 2019: FIFA briefs Flying Eagles on new laws of the game Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, have been fully schooled on best practices and moves and gestures to avoid on-field at the FIFA U20 World Cup finals opening in Poland on Thursday. Immediately after the FIFA arrival meeting, traditionally held to welcome participating teams to the FIFA World Cup, FIFA referee instructor Jerome Damon took the players and officials on the new laws of the game, which would hold sway at the finals. Damon, a South African, is a former FIFA referee. Following theie arrival in Poland on Sunday and the first training on Monday, concentration is now fully on Friday’s opening match of Group D against Qatar at the 15,300 –capacity Tychy Stadium in the Slask region of Poland. Nestle Milo Sec Sch. B/ball Championship: Cross River teams qualify for final final. Perhaps the best matches in the ongoing conference tournament were played yesterday when the boys took to the court. The match between Rivers and Ebonyi state was a classic. It was a match that could have gone either way. But Rivers state early takeoff paid off as they won the first quarter 13-5. Despite the early dominance of Rivers in the first quarter, Ebonyi fought back intensely to close the gap as they got a more respectable score of 28-17. Rivers team held tight to their lead to end the match on 48-45. Coach Tekena Okumgba of the Rivers state team said they were ready for the final against Cross River who sent Bayelsa 33- 16 in the other thrilling semi final. Onyekuru in Bayern’s transfer net Reports by several media outlets in Turkey, have it that Nigeria forward Henry Onyekuru will complete a permanent transfer to Bayern Munich from English Premier League side Everton. Onyekuru had a productive season in Turkey where he played a starring role for league •Onyekuru winners Galatasaray with 14 goals to his name including one in the final game of the season against Istanbul Basaksehir which helped them seal the title. Spanish sides Valencia and Sevilla were reported to be keen on signing him permanently from Everton where work permit issues have stopped him from playing for the team two years after his signing from modest Belgium side Eupen. Reports in Turkey suggest he will be in Germany next week to seal a switch to Bayern Munich who are in the market for wing forwards like Onyekuru following the departure of Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben.
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