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ABUJA http://www.nashvillepredatorsteamstore. … ino-jersey , March 24 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria has named Chelsea FC midfielder John Obi Mikel as new captain of the national football team, also known as the Super Eagles.
Mikel was unveiled as the new skipper at a press conference in the northwestern state of Kaduna on Thursday.
Former team captain Ahmed Musa voluntarily gave up the captain's armband to Mikel, saying he recognized him as ""a senior player of the team"".
""We must thank Musa so much for what he has done today and I promise that Nigerians will see a new brand team with my leadership,"" Mikel told reporters after the announcement.
Last year, Sunday Oliseh, the former head coach of the Super Eagles had named Musa to replace erstwhile skipper and goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, overlooking Mikel and other senior players of the team.
Mikel's first assignment as skipper of the team will be on Friday, when the Super Eagles take on Pharaohs of Egypt in a 2017 African Cup of Nations qualifier in Kaduna.
The Nigerian team will proceed to Egypt on Sunday for a return leg in the city of Alexandria on March 29. Enditem
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by Maria Spiliopoulou
ATHENS, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis unveiled on Sunday the political manifesto of the new pan-European political movement DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 25) he will formally launch in Berlin on Tuesday.
""The European Union will be democratized or it will disintegrate,"" read the title of the document posted on his personal blog and social media accounts.
Varoufakis served in the Left-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras from January 2015 until July 2015, holding a key role in -- sometimes stormy -- negotiations with Greece's lenders over the handling of the Greek debt crisis.
He resigned a day after the July 5 referendum on Greece's third bailout since 2010 and a few days before it was sealed in Brussels, blasting ""EU's democratic deficit.""
His new political platform's key goal is to strengthen democracy within the EU by 2025, according to the manifesto.
Varoufakis and other ""committed democrats who decided to act"" according to the document, seek among others full transparency in decision-making, for example in live-streaming of European Council, Ecofin and Eurogroup meetings, and a comprehensive plan to address the economic crisis within the eurozone.
The DiEM25 movement also calls for the convention of a Constitutional Assembly of European representatives to work on a European Constitution that should be effective as of 2025.
""The European Union was an exceptional achievement, bringing together in peace European peoples speaking different languages, submersed in different cultures, proving that it was possible to create a shared framework of human rights across a continent that was, not long ago, home to murderous chauvinism, racism and barbarity,"" read the manifesto.
""Alas, today, a common bureaucracy and a common currency divide European peoples that were beginning to unite despite our different languages and cultures,"" the document claimed.
""A confederacy of myopic politicians, economically na？ve officials and financially incompetent 'experts' submit slavishly to the edicts of financial and industrial conglomerates, alienating Europeans and stirring up a dangerous anti-European backlash... There must be another course,"" it said.
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PARIS, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Alexandre Lacazette scored twice as Lyon moved to within two points to top Ligue 1 with a 3-0 win over struggling Caen.
The French top-flight's leading scorer opened the scoring in the seventh minute from spot after Jean-Jacques Pierre tackled Nabil Fekir in the box.
Lacazette made it worse for the visitors on 57 minutes after pouncing at Fekir's corner to fire home from a tight angle.
The double scoring took Lacazette's tally to 15 in the top- flight soccer league.
Yassine Benzia completed the scoring in the 62nd minute when the striker claimed a pinpoint first-time finish.
With the victory, Lyon extended their winning streak to three in straight and enlarged their edge over fourth-placed Saint- Etienne on four points.
Caen, who have not won since October, were thus sent to the bottom of the table on goal difference with Bastia, who host Rennes on Saturday.
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