OAU’s Football team Lose First Match As WAUGA Commences

Over the weekend, Obafemi Awolowo football team pitched against their counterparts at the Nnamdi Azikwe stadium at the university of Nigeria, Nsukka. The football game was part of the line of activities at the annual West African university games .

According to UNN pals, the OAU team showed valiancy and dominated the field at the first quarter of the game making the game end at first half with no winner.

There was downpour however towards the end of the second half which played a great face against our beloved team; Making the UNN team winners as the match ended on 1 against zero.

Few Oau students, while giving their opinion says that they are proud of the team; considering that they must have been worn out from the just concluded examinations.

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OAU is fully represented in the ongoing West African University Games

Our goal scoring, trophy worthy football team, is currently in UNN (University of Nigeria Nsukka) for the West African University Games (WAUGA) which starts today..

#teamOAU would be kick starting the event in a football match against UNN by 4 pm.

WAUGA is an annual university games among West African countries. The WAUGA Games are aimed at fostering greater friendship among youths of the West African sub-region all over the world.

The WAUGA will feature football and hockey and attracts participants from over 60 universities in West Africa.

We at Oau Christians wish them the best! Bring home the trophy!
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Oc Sports: Football Headline This Week

Sports headlines over the weekend
Good day guys long time hope you have all been good. Well we have been on break for a while but am happy to inform you we are back and better and we will be
delivering you news making rounds around the world of sport.
We will start our news today from Africa and currently the Africa under-17 championship is going on in Niger and we will be bringing you news about the tournament.
Similarly the Africa youth championship or Africa under-20 championship is kicking off on the 8th of March in Senegal.the tournament runs till the 22nd of March

Nigeria under-20 coach Manu Garba releases 21-man list for AYC 2015 drops star player kelechi iheanacho, also cut from the list are Chidiebere Nwakali and Musa Yahaya who has been tagged the ‘’Nigerian Iniesta’’ the two star players were however dropped because of injury concerns. The coach however reiterated that they will likely make the world cup list should they be fit by then. The list released has some players from the world cup winning under-17 team in UAE in 2013. Among them are Awoniyi taiwo, captain Musa Mohammed, Chidera Eze, Akinjide Idowu, Dele Alampasu.

In other news the Nigeria’s under-17 side couldn’t make it to the final of this years Africa under-17 championship as they were defeated by the ‘’Amajibos’’ of South Africa in the semifinal and they will have to settle for 3rd or 4th, they were however able to book a ticket to the under-17 world cup in Chile later in the year. Their coach Emmanuel Amuneke expressed his disappointment about their inability to qualify for the final but promised they would do better at the world cup and try to replicate the performance the Manu Garba led side achieved in UAE two years ago

We move from Africa straight to Europe and our first point of call is yesterdays europa league round of 32 matches which saw Liverpool, Tottenham, Celtic, Trabzonspor, all crash out. besiktas defeated Liverpool on penalties as the match ended in a 1 all draw on aggregate after extra time. inter defeated celtic by 4 goals to 3 on aggregate. Tottenham lost by 3 goals to 1 on aggregate to fiorentina, chelsea loanee Mohammed Salah scored

Arsenal,Liverpool and Manchester united record victories as Manchester city slump to defeat. Arsenal defeated Everton by 2 goals to nil at the emirates, Manchester united defeated sunderland by two goals to nil, Liverpool however recorded the greatest upset defeating Manchester city by two goals to one at Anfield. Chelsea however didn’t play any match in the league on Saturday meaning a win in their outstanding match extends their lead at the top of the league to 8 points

Chelsea were crowned winners of the English Capital One Cup or Carling Cup on Sunday as they saw off Tottenham hotspur by two goals to nil at Wembley. John terry put the Blues ahead in the first half and Diego Costa scored the second to give chelsea their first silverware of the season. Congratulations Chelsea FC

Barcelona,Valencia record victories as Real Madrid and Athletico madrid are held. Barcelona defeated Granada on Saturday to mount their title challenge, Athletico Madrid and Real Madrid played out draws with Real Madrid playing a 1-all draw with villareal while Athletico Madrid played out a goalless draw with sevilla

Bayern munich and Dortmund record comfortable victories over Mainz and schalke respectively. Bayern extended their superb form at the expense of Mainz defeating them by four goals to one making it three wins in their last three league matches scoring 18 goals in the three. Dortmund on the other hand defeated schalke by 3 goals to nil to show that they are back in winning ways

Nigerian golden eaglets had to settle for fourth position as they were trashed by the Syli Babes of Guinea three goals to one in the third place match at the just concluded Africa under-17 championships

Arsnal legend Thiery Henry has backed chelsea to win the treble this season. He believes they have what it takes to compete against any club in Europe

Away from football now we dive a little into tennis and our news today is about French Open record holder Rafael Nadal. The tennis star from Spain won a record equalling 46th career title on clay court in the Argentina Open on Sunday defeating Juan Monaco a major favourite for the trophy. Nadal who is currently world number four now has 65 career titles to his name. If you ask me that is a wonderful feat.

Before I sign off I would like to add something. Arsenal were defeated at home by 3 goals to 1 by AS Monaco in the first leg of the uefa champions league round of 16. Do you think arsenal can still qualify? Don’t forget that in the 2003/2004 season Arsenal lost at home to Inter milan by three goals to nil but still qualified after they defeated Inter milan by 5 goals to 1 in the return leg

On a final note we would like to apologise for being unavailable all this while but we assure you that we are back and better.

OC Sports: News You Must Have Missed This Week

Sports news making the rounds this week locally and internationally
We start our news today from home and we bring you update on some news concerning Nigeria players in Europe
Former nigeria under 17 star goalkeeper and current under 20 star Dele Alampasu has signed for Portuguese side FC Estoril.

Stoke city have added the name of Nigerian winger osaze odemwingie to their list for the second half of the season despite the fact that he is still recovering from a knee ligament injury he suffered in a lone goal win against Manchester city early in the season

Arsenal and Nigeria born English player Chuba Akpom signs new four and half year deal that will keep him in arsenal until 2019.He recently spoke of his intention to play for Nigeria

Manchester city have reiterated that they have no intention of sending Nigeria youngster Kelechi Iheneacho out on loan in this transfer window.there were speculations that the youngster was on his way to Malaga on a short term loan deal but mancity have said such rumours are lies and they went further to assure fans of his staying by renting him an apartment earlier this week

We move to Europe and our first point of call is arsenal
Arsenal Chilean forward alexis sanchez has made it a point of duty to play against Tottenham despite the fact that he may have a nagging hamstring injury

Liverpool have signed a 300 million pounds deal with an American kit maker

Brazilian star Neymar believes that fellow country man phillipe coutinho has all it takes to be the best player in the english premier league.he believes the Liverpool star in a star on waiting

Manchester lead race to sign Barcelona defender dani alves in the summer when his contract expires

Three of the best players in the world added a year to their age yesterday in person of carlos tevez,neymar,Cristiano Ronaldo.2014 Ballon d’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo clocked 30 on the 5th of february happy birthday from oc sports!!!

Manchester united reignite interest in PSV dutch winger Memphis Depay and he is likely to cost around 10 million pounds

Queens park rangers manager Harry Redknapp has resigned as coach of QPR

Chelsea are planning to resign Belgian starlet kevin de bruyne from Wolfsburg in the summer as he has been in fantastic form this season

Manchester united are also monitoring Monaco wingback Layvin Kurzawa

Former spurs boss Tim Sherwood is close to taking over QPR’s vacant managerial post

We bring you updates concerning the ongoing afcon in equatorial guinea

Ghana will slog it out with ivory coast for the ultimate prize in the final of afcon 2015 as both teams dispatched their opponents in the semifinal convincingly.
Ghana saw of hosts equatorial guinea by 3 goals to nil in a match that saw a lot of violence fron the home fans late in the game, the referee had to bring the match to a halt in the 87th minute when the fans of equatorial guinea started throwing objects at the ghanaian players
. It took the intervention of security personnels to quell the situation. Ivory coast on the other hand defeated DR congo by 3 goals to 1 to book their place in the final of the tournament. The final will be played on Sunday in equatorial guinea.

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OC Sports: Sports Headline This Week

Sports news making the rounds over the weekend.

Monday February 2nd was the deadline day for the January transfer window for the 2014/2015 football season in Europe. The transfer window saw a lot of deadline day moves.

Although prior to that there have been moves like Gabriel paulista, lucas silva,martin odegaard e.t.c however some clubs left their business till late in the window before making any purchases.

Below we bring you report on the transfers over the weekend and on deadline day.

Chelsea sign fiorentina Colombian winger Juan Cuadrado for a fee around 27million pounds. The deal was completed on deadline day subject to a medical and was later unveiled in the evening of deadline day

Southampton sign chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand on a permanent basis after a successful initial loan spell which saw him make 22 appearances for Southampton in all competitons.

Chelsea Egyptian winger mohammed salah joins fiorentina on loan till the end of the season

Wolfsburg sign chelsea german winger Andre schurrle for a fee around 22million pounds

Tottenham wonderkid Harry kane signs new five year contract

Olympique Marseille sign As Monaco argentine starlet Lucas Ocampos on loan till the end of the season

West bromich albion sign man utd erstwhile assistant captain Darren fletcher. He was given a two and half year contract.

Tottenham sign Mk dons wonderkid Dele Alli for a fee around 5million pounds

Manchester united have brought Bolton wanderers player Andy Kellett. the 21 year old joins man utd on loan till the end of the season

Man utd swiss youngster Saidy Janko joins Bolton from Manchester united on loan

Manchester united starlet Jesse Lingard joins derby county on loan

Hull city sign Lokomotiv Moscow Senegalese international Dame N’doye. He signed a two and half year contract, with option to extend for another one year

Crystal palace complete signing of wifried zaha from Manchester united for an undisclosed fee.
He goes back to the club that brought him into limelight, as he had an unsuccessful spell at old Trafford
Everton have signed Tottenham English winger Aaron Lennon on loan till the end of the season. He signed for everton in his bid to revive his career.

Crystal palace sign Bolton winger Lee Chung yong for and undisclosed fee.

Southampton sign benfica defender Filip Djuricic on loan till the end of the season

Australian legend Tim Cahill leaves New york red bulls and signs for Chinese top tier side Shanghai Shenhua.

Former Nigeria striker Yakubu Aiyegbeni joins Reading on free transfer after he left his former club Al-qattari

Sunderland greek winger Chris Mavrias joins panathinaikos on loan till the end of the season

Ac Milan sign parma defender Gabriel palletta for an undisclosed fee

Ac Milan sign genoa full back Luca Antonelli from genoa for an undisclosed fee

Newcastle defender David Santon joins Inter Milan on till the end of the season

Derby county loan hull city winger Thomas Ince till the end of the season.

In other news Manchester city new signing Wilfried Bony’s move from Swansea was noted as the most expensive move in this window all over Europe.

Australia were crowned winners of the 16th edition of the Asian cup. The tournament which was hosted by Australia saw a lot of thrilling action, however it was the Soccerros who came out on top defeating south korea by 2 goals to 1(aet)

We also continue our coverage of afcon 2015 in equatorial guinea as the tournament reaches it semi-final stages. The quarter finals saw favourites Algeria crash out.The results of the quarterfinal are below.
Algeria 1 vs Ivory coast 3
Ghana 3 vs Guinea 0
Congo 2 vs DR congo 4
Tunisia 1 vs equatorial guinea 2(aet)

The competion continues with the semifinals tomorrow as dr congo take on ivory coast and also on Thursday as Ghana take on hosts equatorial guinea. Do stay tuned as we keep you posted.

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OC sports: Alexis Sanchez Is Better Than Eden Hazard, Who Disagrees?.

Before you tear down the writer of the post, checkout the (roundup) Sports Headline This Weekend on OAU Christians.

Crystal palace in talks with Manchester united about a 6m pound deal to resign wifried zaha before Mondays transfer deadline’

Nigeria and former Newcastle striker shola ameobi joins crystal palace on a free transfer

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers says Liverpool won’t be making any signings in this window

As roma Italian striker mathia destro joins Ac Milan on 6 months loan deal with a view to make the deal permanent in the summer

Reports in England suggest that arsenal are interested in signing Tottenham hugo lloris

Inter Milan coach Roberto mancini has confirmed their interest in yaya toure
Stoke city striker Peter crouch signs contract extension

Arsenal Spanish midfielder signs one year contract extension

Reports in germany suggest borussia Dortmund are edging close to signing Chelsea winger andre schurrle as the blues are planning to replace him with fiorentina winger juan cuadrado

Chelsea star striker diego costa faces 3 match ban as a result of stamp incident

Portugese and real Madrid legend Luis figo announces his intention to run for fifa presidency

Aston villa confident of signing misfit man city winger Scott Sinclair on loan before the close of this window

Lazio of italy are interested in signing man utd on loan striker Javier Hernandez

Tottenham to offer harry kane new contract worth 35,000 pounds per week

West ham Ravel Morrison on his way to Lazio as he shares a picture of his new Lazio jersey

We delve into tennis as we bring you news fron the ongoing Australian open

English tennis star andy murray does a superb comeback to defeat tomas berdych in the Australian open semi final and qualify for his first Australian open final. Also USA female tennis star Serena Williams breeze into Australian open final as she defeats teenager Keys to setup final clash with top seed Maria Sharapova

In other news Chelsea will face Tottenham in the capital one cup final in Wembley as chelsea defeat Liverpool by 2 goals to 1 on aggregate and Tottenham see off Sheffield utd winning on aggregate by 3 goals to 2.

Arsenal complete signing of villareal centre back Gabriel paulista for a fee around 13m pounds with arsenal costa rican winger Joel cambell going in the opposite direction on loan till the end of the season,making him their second signing window.

Ona final note we would like to spice up our posts with opinions and arguments and we are starting this week with our first topic and our topic is ALEXIS SANCHEZ IS BETTER THAN EDEN HAZARD, WHO DISAGREES?.Do have a lovely weekend see you on Monday with more news from the sporting world .

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OC Sports: Sports Headlines Over The Weekend

Good evening we bring you sports headlines over the weekend.

Real Madrid sign cruzeiro starlet lucas silva.
Arsenal agree deal to sign villareal brazilian centre back Gabriel Paulista for a fee around 15m pounds and a loan deal for arsenal costa rican star Joel Campbell who will spend the rest of the season on loan at villareal.they agreed a 1m pound loan deal .
As roma agree 18months loan deal for Chelsea Egyptian star mohammed salah
Messi and neymar score a brace each as Barcelona whip elche 6 nil.gerard pique as got his name on the score sheet
Cristiano ronaldo sees red as real Madrid struggle to defeat Cordoba by 2 goals to 1.courtesy goals from benzema and gareth bale

This weekend saw some major upsets in the fourth round of the English fa cup.the first major upset started on Friday night when Manchester united; couldn’t overcome fourth tier side Cambridge united.then on Saturday it was the turn of Chelsea,mancity,Tottenham, and Swansea as they all crashed out of the fa cup. Chelsea gave up a two goal lead to lose by four goals to two against third tier side Bradford city at Stamford bridge. Star studded mancity lost at home to former real Madrid’s assistant coach Aitor Karanka’s middlesborough by two goals to nil. An early Andros townsend penalty wasn’t enough to help Tottenham defeat Leicester city as they lost by 2 goals to 1 at whiye hart lane. Other results in the fourth round of the fa cup are;

Blackburn 3 vs Swansea 1
Liverpool 0 vs Bolton 0
Bristol city 0 vs west ham 1
Aston villa 2 vs Afc Bournemouth 1

Nigerian erstwhile striker Victor anichebe scored a brace for west bromich albion as they defeated Birmingham city 2 goals to 1 at saint Andrews park in their fourth round fa cup tie
Arsenal defeated brighton and hove albion by 3 goals to 2 to progress to the next round of the fa cup courtesy goals from Theo Walcott,Mesut ozil and Tomas rosicky. The gunners went two goals up before their opponents scored a goal. However a wonderful setup pass from Olivier giroud into the part of rosicky was volleyed home by the Czech midfielder.a string of well connected passes saw brighton score a second they were however not able to score an equaliser  to setup a replay at the emirates. Arsenal also lost a couple of chances in the dying minutes of the game as Alexis Sancez and Chuba Akpom  drew saves from the brighton goalkeeper

Derby 2 vs chesterfield 0
Preston 1 vs Sheffield united  1
Cardiff 1 vs reading 2
Sunderland 0 vs Fulham 0

We continue our coverage of afcon 2015 as we bring you results from the tournament in equatorial guinea
Ivory coast 1 vs mali 1
Cameroon 1 vs guinea 1
Ghana 1 vs Algeria 0
Senegal 1 vs south Africa 1
Gabon 0 vs equatorial guinea 2
Congo 2 vs Burkina faso 1
Zambia 1 vs Tunisia 2
Cape verde 0 vs dr congo 0

On a final note more transfer news

Aston villa English midfielder fabian delph signs new four and half year contract#
Reports suggest that man utd have agreed a fee for dynamo kiev centre backl aleksandar dragovic
Everton ready bid for Ukrainian winger yevhen konoplyanka
Spurs to make last minute swoop for burnley striker danny Ings
Shaktar donetsk brazilian forward douglad costa wants Chelsea move
Juan cuardrado tells fiorentina he wants Chelsea move.

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OC Sports: Sports Headlines Around The World This Week.

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By Ore Akinola.

We start our reports from England where we bring you news making the rounds in English football
Arsenal complete signing of polish’’ wonderkid’’ Krystian  Bielik from polish club legia Warsaw for an undisclosed fee .The 17 year old defensive midfieder is expected to join arsenal’s first team immediately. Sources believe the transfer fee to be close to 2.4 million pounds. Arsenal had to fight off strong competition from german side Hamburg to sign the player.

Arsenal French striker Yaya Sanogo has joined Crystal palace on loan till the end of the season. This is in a bid for him to get more first team action. Bordeaux of france were major contenders for his signature however arsenal boss arsene wenger felt a move to a premier club would suit him more.

Arsene wenger has reassured arsenal fans of serious work in progress concerning strenghtning the back four especially the centre back role. Arsene wenger has applauded recent performance of French starlet francis coquelin and has stated that he may delay his signing a holding midfielder. The question now is that can francis coquelin continue to perform.

Reports from spain have suggested that Borrusia Dortmund star Marco Reus may be on his way to Spain in the summer.

Arsenal target Winston Reid has told Westham he wants to join Arsenal. West ham are said to have valued him at 8 million pounds while Arsenal are hoping to sign him for a fee around 5 million.

Vfl Wolfsburg have arised as major contenders in their bid to sign Chelsea’s German Ace Andre Schurrle. Reports suggest that ManUtd are interested in resigning Gerard pique for about 15 million pounds.

German defender Matt Hummels assure Borussia Dortmund of his loyalty amidst reports of a possible transfer in this window.

Juventus director drops hint that French midfielder paul pogba leave amidst strong interest from Chelsea and realmadrid
Juventus have said their goodbyes to Italian striker Sebastian giovinco as he departs for mls side Toronto fc

Arsenal legend Thierry henry started his job as a pundit at skysports and his first match was the match between his former club and Mancity and after the match he spoke of his disappointment with the way Arsenal played. He said despite the win Arsenal still didn’t play like he expected.

Arsenal are hoping to finalise a deal for villareal defender Gabriel paulista. Reports in spain suggests that the 24year old’s agent is in England to finalise personal terms and also work on his work permit issues. Villareal have slapped a 15million price tag on the defender and as at now the deal is nowhere from being complete.

Crystal palace and Dr congo winger Yannick Bolasie says he wants to prove he is one of Africa’s best as he wishes to improve on his performance for his country in their opening match in the ongoing afcon 2015. He scored his country’s equaliser in their  opening group stage match in which they played out a 1 all draw with the Zambia.

Man utd legend Gary Neville has criticised Dutch player Daley Blind saying he isn’t adding anything to the club

Chelsea are considering a swap deal that will see them cough out 40 million pounds plus John Obi Mikel and brazilian midfielder ramires for Juventus star Paul Pogba.

Ivory coast and As Roma of Italy winger Gervinho gets sent off for slapping Keita in their opening group stage match against Guinea. He however has apologised for doing so. The match ended in a draw as CSKA Moscow of Russia striker Seydou Doumbia salvages a point for Ivory Coast.

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Monaco sign SL benfica Portuegese promising midfielder Bernando Silva for a fee believed to be around 12million pounds.

Real Madrid have confirmed the signing of Norwegian wonderkid Martin Odegaard from Stromsgodset .The highly rated 16 year old has been coveted in recent months by European clubs – Madrid,Bayern,and Ajax and there were several speculations that he was on his way to Real Madrid.However the European champions have now confirmed that they have agreed a fee with Stromsgodset and if everything goes as planned he will be presented to the media this Thursday 22nd of January 2015 at about 1:30pm CET(central European time).

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OC Sports: An update On The Ongoing AFCON 2015 in Equatorial Guinea

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By Ore Akinola.

The competiotion kicked off on Saturday 17th January in equatorial guinea. The tournament which was supposed to be hosted by Morocco before they withdrew and subsequently got banned.
The opening day saw host country Equatorial Guinea take on Congo and then Burkina Faso take on Gabon later in the day.

You can check the results so far below:

Equatorial guinea 1 Congo 1
Burkina faso 0 Gabon 2
Zambia  1 Dr Congo 1
Ghana  1  Senegal 2
Ivory coast  1 Guinea  1
Mali  1  Cameroon  1
South Africa 1 Algeria 3
Equatorial guinea  0 Burkina Faso  0
Gabon  0 Congo 1.

In other news Tottenham hotspurs have moved one step further in their pursuit of Silverware this season after defeating Sheffield utd by a goal to nil in the first leg of their capital one cup semifinal at white hart lane. Also in spain the Spanish cup also known as Copa Del Rey entered its quarter finals and the results of the first leg are;

Barcelona 1 Athlectico Madrid 0,
Villarreal 1 Getafe 0,
Malaga 0 Athletic bilbao 0

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