Nigeria 0-3 Spain: ALBA'S BRACE AND TORRES HEADER SENDS EAGLES PACKING

Spain wrapped up their group stage campaign of the Confederations Cup with ease after recording a comfortable 3-0 victory over Nigeria at the Estadio Castelao Fortaleza on Sunday.

A brilliant solo double from Jordi Alba and a header from substitute Fernando Torres sealed the victory over a disappointing Super Eagles side, who were undone by their own inability to finish the numerous chances that came their way.

Predictably, Vicente del Bosque made a number of changes from the side that dismantled Tahiti 10-0 on Thursday, with Victor Valdes starting in goal and Roberto Soldado preferred to hat-trick heroes Torres and David Villa. Nigeria, meanwhile, made two changes from the line-up that suffered defeat against Uruguay, with Joseph Akpala and Sunday Mba returning for Nnamdi Oduamadi and John Ogu.

I'II MAKE YOU SMILE, OKAGBARE TELLS UDUAGHAN

Blessing Okagbare has remained among the top ten athletes in the world for more than two years now.

After winning a Long Jump bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, she focused more in the 100m at the London Olympics, a development which technocrats faulted and blamed it on her managers on the grounds that   she had greater potential to do better in the Long Jump if she was better guided.

And with the World Championships taking place this August in Rus sia, with the Olympic Games barely three years away, Blessing is still on track as a medal potential. She has run a wind assisted 10.75 in Oregon this year and jumped 7.14 m in the Long Jump in Doha, Qatar. That would have been an African record if it was not also wind-aided.
 

‘’Someday, I’ll put a smile on the face of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the governor of Delta State.

That is my prayer and I’m working towards it,” Blessing said yesterday, just after reigning as queen of the tracks for the third consecutive year. She ran 11.25 to win the Cross River/AFN World Championship trials in Calabar last week.
Her outing was part of her World Championship preparation which she said she started last November, few months after the London Olympics.

‘’When I qualified for the 100m final in London, everybody banked on me to win a medal. It didn’t happen and many people saw me as a failure. But the Governor of Delta State did not see me as one.

He called me to encourage me and told me that I was one of the best in the world. He has been very fatherly to me. He is a great mentor and motivator and I want to repeat here that my prayer is to put a smile on his face some day with a medal.”

Blessing wished that the Federal Government could do more for sports in the country.

OKAGBARE, EGWERO TOP LIST FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Blessing Okagbare and Ogho-Oghene Egwero top the list of 19 athletes the Athletic Federation of Nigeria released on Sunday for the World Athletics Championships in Russia.

The release, signed by the AFN’s technical director Navy Capt. Omatseye Nesiama, also said the list was provisional.

The list, made after national trials held at the U. J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar, include male athletes Ogho-Oghene Egwero (B standard in100m-probation), Noah Akwu (B standard in 400m- probation), Leoman Momoh (B standard in 800m-probation); 4x400m relay team,  Noah Akwu, Abiola Onakoya, Isah Saliu, Tobi Ogunmola, and Gerald Odeka.

NIGERIA QUEEN OF THE TRACK LIVE IN CALABAR

Blessing Okagbare, Nigeria's Queen of the track was Live at the CRS/ ALL Nigeria athletics Championship in Calabar.
She won the 100meters yesterday with a time of 11.24 secs and will also be competing in the 200m race, making her a star to watch.

Race: Final (100 m)

HISTORY

Blessing Okagbare (born 9 October 1988) is a Nigerian long and triple jumper and short sprinter.

In May 2007, at the All-Africa Games trials in Lagos, she established a Nigerian record of 14.13 metres in the triple jump. At the 2007 All-Africa Games she won the silver medal in the long jump and finished fourth in the triple jump. In the latter competition her Nigerian record was beaten by Chinonye Ohadugha, who jumped 14.21 metres. She won a bronze medal in the women's long jump event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Okagbare scored a 100 m/long jump double at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship for University of Texas at El Paso, completing an undefeated collegiate streak that year. She won the Nigerian 100 m title in 2010, running a time of 11.04 seconds, and stated that she was opting out of the long jump in order to save herself for the upcoming African championships.

 Blessing Okagbare

Personal information
Born	(1988-09-10) September 10, 1988 (age 24)
Height	1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	Nigeria
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long jump 100m
Medal record Olympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing Long jump All-Africa Games Gold 2011 Maputo Long jump Silver 2011 Maputo 100 m Silver 2011 Maputo 4x100 m African Championships Gold 2010 Nairobi 100 m Gold 2010 Nairobi Long jump Silver 2012 Benin 100 m Continental Cup Bronze 2010 Split 100 m

TOP 10 PAID ATHLETES

Tiger Woods is once again the world's best-paid athlete after reclaiming golf's number one ranking, according to Forbes.

Woods had total earnings of $78 million (£50.34m) over the past year - $65 million (£42m) in endorsements and the remainder from appearance and prize money, Forbes said in its annual sporting survey.

The American returned to the top of golf's rankings in March for the first time since October 2010.

A number of sponsors had abandoned Woods after he was involved in an adultery scandal that broke in 2009 but sportswear company Nike was among those that stood by him.

Woods had topped the Forbes list every year from 2001 until boxer Floyd Mayweather deposed him last year.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer was second in the new list, making more than $71 million (£45.89m) since June 2012.

US basketball players Kobe Bryant and LeBron James took the next two slots.

Mayweather slipped to 14th after fighting only once over the past year.

Russia's Maria Sharapova was the highest earning female athlete in 22nd place. Fellow tennis players Serena Williams of the United States and China's Li Na were the only other women to feature in the 100-strong list.

 

TOP 10:

 

1. Tiger Woods - $78.1 million (£50.34m)

2. Roger Federer - $71.5 million (£46.08m)

 

3. Kobe Bryant - $61.9 million (£39.89m)

 

 4. LeBron James - $59.8 million (£38.54m)

 

 

 

5. Drew Brees - $51 million (£32.87m)

 

6. Aaron Rodgers - $49 million (£31.59m)

 

7. Phil Mickelson - $48.7 million (£31.39m)

 

8. David Beckham - $47.2 million (£30.43m)

 

9. Cristiano Ronaldo - $44 million (£28.36m)

 

10. Lionel Messi - $41.3 million (£26.62m)

RACE4LIFE HALF-MARATHON................... A mission for vision.

 

Race(Sport) 4 Life(health) is a sporting event associated with raising funds to assist the general population on a particular health issue. It will be working cordially with the WHO (World health organisation) calendar which is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is also responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

 

Venue:

UJE Stadium Calabar will be the starting point and also finishing point for the athletes, where health personnels will be carrying out charity obligations. The award ceremony will also take place immediately after the marathon race at the stadium.

 

Race4Life will promote the day:

• To raise public awareness of blindness and vision impairment as major international public health issues.
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