The Star Sixes is an indoor football tournament for legends.
This year’s event is taking place at the O2 Arena in London and Austin “Jay Jay” Okocha, Celestine Babayaro, Daniel Amokachi, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Uche Okechukwu, Julius Aghahowa, Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba and Joseph Yobo are representing Nigeria.
Nigeria has played three group games and these are the results.
Nigeria 3-2 China
Yakubu (2) and Amokachi scored for Nigeria, while Peng Weiguo and Liang Jianfeng scored for China.
NIGERIA: Jay-Jay Okocha, Celestine Babayaro, Daniel Amokachi, Julius Aghahowa, Garba Lawal, Joseph Yobo, Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba, Peter Rufai, Uche Okechukwu
CHINA: Peng Weiguo, Peng Weijun, Xia Yao, Liang Jianfeng, Jiang Feng, Wei Qun, Liu Cheng, Chen Yongqiang, Hu Zhijun, Li Wei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8E1hNtHFw
Italy 2-1 Nigeria
Alesandro Del Piero and Stefano Fiore scored for Italy while Yakubu Aiyegbeni scored for Nigeria.
ITALY: Alessandro Del Piero, Simone Barone, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Paolo Di Canio, Angelo Di Livio, Massimo Oddo, Marco Amelia, Stefano Fiore, Marco Delvecchio, Luciano Zauri
NIGERIA: Jay-Jay Okocha, Celestine Babayaro, Daniel Amokachi, Julius Aghahowa, Garba Lawal, Joseph Yobo, Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba, Peter Rufai, Uche Okechukwu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK9eQUz7R8
Brazil 3-0 Nigeria
Júlio Baptista, Elano and Juninho scored for Brazil
NIGERIA: Jay-Jay Okocha, Celestine Babayaro, Daniel Amokachi, Julius Aghahowa, Garba Lawal, Joseph Yobo, Taribo West, Victor Ikpeba, Peter Rufai, Uche Okechukwu
BRAZIL: Roberto Carlos, Juliano Belletti, Gilberto Silva, Rivaldo, Elano, Dida, Juninho, Djalminha, Amaral, Julio Baptista
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGC–XL-FiY
The following countries are taking part in the competition:
Brazil, Germany, Italy, Nigeria, Denmark, England, China, Spain, Scotland, Mexico, France and Portugal.
Each country has a ten man squad, but only six players are allowed to play at a time.
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