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The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has announced that 17 players and one coach have made its official team of the first round. League leaders, Dolphins, dominated the team by providing three players and the team's coach. Dolphins’ manager Stanley Eguma picked as coach of the first round, led the trio of goalkeeper Rotimi Sunday, defender Uche Oguchi and midfielder Owusu Addae, who is named as a substitute in the side. Eguma beat the duo of Gbenga Ogunbote of Sunshine Stars and Festus Allen of Bukola Babes to the position of team coach. Newcomers Bukola Babes and Warri Wolves have three players each in the team. Centre-back ThankGod Ike, midfielder Emmanuel Omodiagbe and striker Ehiosun Ekigho are picked from Warri Wolves. The three Warri Wolves’ players grabbed first-team spots in the 18-man NPL squad. But Bukola Babes’ captain and left-back, Abubakar Yusuf is the only player from his side that got a starting place while the duo of Effiom Otu-B

As the 2nd stanza resumes these weekend,am profiling the league leaders dolphins fc,They are the only team yet to lose at home this season. Dolphins FC are a Nigerian football team based in Port Harcourt. History: In 2004-2005 they placed 6th in the Nigerian Premier League. Representing their country in the 2005 CAF Confederation Cup, they reached the finals, losing to Morocco's FAR Rabat. They play their home games at Liberation Stadium. However, for the 2008 Confederation Cup they played their games at U. J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar. They were relegated from the Nigerian Premier League in 2007 by one point. They however came back to retain the FA Cup over Enugu Rangers. In their run, they twice won by penalties 4-2, including a semi-final triumph over crosstown rivals Sharks F.C. before winning the finals 3-2 in penalties. They returned to the Premier League after winning their division in 2009. The club was known until 2001 as Eagle Cement. Achievements:

- 380 games was played in the first half of the season, 19 games was played each by the 20 clubs on the log. - Total number of matches won: 153. - Total number of matches draw: 74. - Total number of matches lost: 153. - Total number of goals scored: 369. - Away wins: 16. - Home lost: 16. - Points accumulated by the 20 teams: 533 points. - Dolphins fc accumulated the highest points: 43 points from 19 gamer to stay top of the table. - Plateau united accumulated the lowest point: 13 points in 19 games to stay bottom of the table. - Sunshine stars second on the log scored the highest goals with 26 goals scored from 19 games. - Niger tornadoes scored the lowest goals,scoring 11 goals from 19 games. - Plateau united conceded the highest goals: 27 goals was scored against them in 19 games,while league leaders conceded the lowest goals,with 9 goals scored against them from 19 games. - Plateau united currently 20th on the log lost the highes games,they lost 12 games out of 19 game

Fixtures | nigeria 12 Mar 2011 17:00 Kwara Utd FC vs Niger Tornadoes FC Offa Township Stadium 17:00 JUTH FC vs Rangers Int ’l FC Rwang Pam Stadium 17:00 Dolphin FC vs Enyimba Int ’l FC Liberation Stadium 13 Mar 2011 17:00 Crown FC vs Gombe Utd FC Gateway International Stadium 17:00 Lobi Stars FC vs Plateau Utd FC Aper Aku Stadium 17:00 Sunshine Stars FC vs Bukola Babes FC Gateway International Stadium 17:00 Ocean Boys FC vs 3SC Samson Siasia Stadium 17:00 Heartland FC vs Sharks FC Dan Anyiam Stadium 17:00 Zamfara Utd FC vs Kano Pillars FC Sani Abacha Stadium 17:00 Kaduna Utd FC vs Warri Wolves FC Kaduna Stadium

12 Mar 2011 14:45 Birmingham vs Bolton St Andrews Stadium 19:15 Man Utd vs Arsenal Old Trafford 13 Mar 2011 16:00 Stoke vs West Ham Britannia Stadium 18:45 Man City vs Reading City of Manchester Stadium

10 Mar 2011 Dynamo Kiev 2 - 0 Man City Ajax 0 - 1 Spartak Moscow FC Twente 3 - 0 Zenit St Petersburg Benfica 2 - 1 PSG Braga 1 - 0 Liverpool Bayer Leverkusen 2 - 3 Villarreal CSKA Moscow 0 - 1 FC Porto PSV 0 - 0 Rangers

Manchester United striker, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez currently boasts the best minute per goal rate in the history of the Premier League. The Mexican striker beats the likes of Fernando Torres, Thierry Henry and Ruud Van Nistelrooy despite being in his maiden season at the club. An Opta investigation has shown that Hernandez has scored ten Premier League goals in 962 minutes during his United career, an average of one goal every 96 minutes and 12 seconds player. The study, which only includes players who have scored ten+ goals in the league, also shows that these ten goals have been scored from just 14 shots on target – meaning that 71.4% of his on target shots find the back of the net. Alongside Hernandez is four other players currently plying their trade in the league: Fernando Torres, Ivan Klasnic, Daniel Sturridge and Rafael Van der Vaart. Javier Hernández: goal every 96.2 mins Thierry Henry: goal every 121.95 mins Fernando Torres: goal ever

WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has pledged to knock out IBF and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko when they fight in Germany in the summer. The British fighter is set to take on the Ukrainian in a football stadium on either 25 June or 2 July. "I just can't wait for that first bell to ring so I can run across the ring to stick one on his chin," Haye, 30, told BBC Radio 5 live. Haye added: "Wladimir Klitschko is getting violently knocked out." Despite Haye's apparent confidence, British bookmakers rate Klitschko the favourite, and the Londoner knows he will face a battle. "He's considered by a lot of people who aren't big fans of mine to be number one in the heavyweight division," Haye told 5 live. "He holds the IBF and WBO titles. I'm obviously the WBA champion and once and for all we are going to get in the ring and decide who's the best. "Wladimir's been knocked out a couple of

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has said Cesc Fabregas is likely to be fit for Tuesday's Champions League last-16 second leg at Barcelona. Wenger will be without a number of key players in the Nou Camp as the Gunners look to defend a 2-1 first- leg victory. But of his captain, who has missed three games with a hamstring injury and faces a final fitness test on Monday, he said: "It is 90% he will be fit. "His return is vital, he is important [linking] attack and defence." In Fabregas' absence, Arsenal were held to a goalless draw at home by Sunderland on Saturday as they looked to put pressure on Premier League leaders Manchester United. But while Wenger should be able to call on a player he referred to as "the leader of the team" for the first time since he went off injured against Stoke on 23 February, he faces a number of other selection headaches. We do not have enough security to sit back and defend. You can't go

“OK lads and lasses lets put all this in perspective, we are still top of the league and look forward to playing Arsenal in the FA Cup and then remember there is the Champions League and a final at Wembley. So it’s not the end of the world to come to somewhere like this and actually lose a football match. “ Today we were well beaten by a team who wanted it more. Liverpool, now of course under new management and with us top of the league, treated it like a cup final. It ’s no excuse. They knocked us off our perch – temporarily, I might add. “ Now I can’t win with you lot. Whatever I say you twist it round, have me criticising referees, opposition players, their managers, whatever. I can ’t even trust MUTV now but anyway I’ve come here to talk to you lot including the London papers. “ We were not at the races in so many areas. Our midfield didn ’t have the bite today to match Liverpool, and up front we were poor, although our ‘ Little Pea’ popped up to

Former Super Eagles defender, Ajibade Babalade, wants Super Eagles' boss, Samson Siasia and his backroom staff to scout for hard men to play at the back-four. Babalade, who is now team manager of Premier League side, 3SC, said this strategy worked perfectly for former Super Eagles Dutch manager, Clemens Westerhof. The defender, fondly called ‘ Kunde’ was one of the several ‘hard men’ Westerhof developed into great defenders. “Defenders require specific qualities and one of such is to be hard, ” Babalade said “As a defender, you must have safety at the bottom of your mind first. There is no need for you to show skills when your area is under attack. When you have taken care of the opponents, then you can show your skills,” he added. The former Africa Sport and Sturm Graz defender told our source that Westerhof depended on other ‘hard men’ like Austin Eguavoen, Chidi Nwanu, Uche Okechukwu, Mike Emenalo, Ben Iroha, Stephen Keshi, Albert Anijekwu a

05 Mar 2011 17:00 Niger Tornadoes FC vs Enyimba Int ’l FC Mamman Kontagora Stadium 17:00 Kwara Utd FC vs Zamfara Utd FC Offa Township Stadium 17:00 Sharks FC vs Rangers Int ’l FC Sharks Stadium 17:00 Gombe Utd FC vs Plateau Utd FC Tafawa Balewa Stadium 06 Mar 2011 17:00 JUTH FC vs Dolphin FC Rwang Pam Stadium 17:00 Warri Wolves FC vs 3SC Warri City Stadium 17:00 Kaduna Utd FC vs Bukola Babes FC Kaduna Stadium 17:00 Crown FC vs Sunshine Stars FC Gateway International Stadium 17:00 Heartland FC vs Ocean Boys FC Dan Anyiam Stadium 17:00 Lobi Stars FC vs Kano Pillars FC Aper Aku Stadium