As the days to the kickoff match for the 2023 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations draw closer, there are quite some fascinating facts to know about the continent’s highly revered football tournament. The tournament which will start on January 13, 2024, with the opening match between the host country, Cote d’Ivoire, and Group A […]...
•Sebastine Broderick Sebastine Broderick-Imasuen who led the Golden Eaglets to the milestone win of the inaugural U16 World Cup in China, has died at 85. One of the players he handled at the 1989 U17 World Cup in Scotland, Bamidele Oguntuashe first broke the news before another confirmation came from Harrison Jalla, the Chairman, Professional ...
Spanish World Cup-winning star Jenni Hermoso told a judge today that the kiss forced on her by disgraced former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales was “at no point consensual” and that she had come under pressure to defend his actions. After arriving at the Audiencia Nacional in Madrid just before 10:00 am (0900 GMT), the […]
•Ivory Coast players Africa Cup of Nations hosts Ivory Coast included a smattering of overseas stars in their 27-man squad for the January 11- February 11 competition released yesterday. The Ivory Coast’s French manager Jean-Louis Gasset has called up Borussia Dortmund striker Sebastien Haller, Monaco defender Wilfried Singo, and midfielders I...
•Manchester City team celebrate with their winning trophy Manchester City won the Club World Cup for the first time to end 2023 with five trophies after a 4-0 win over Fluminense in Jeddah yesterday. City’s victory extended European clubs’ domination of the competition since 2012 and was never in doubt once Julian Alvarez opened the […]...
•Liverpool’s Curtis Jones (R) scores his team’s fifth goal Liverpool destroyed West Ham 5-1 to reach the League Cup semi-finals yesterday, easing the frustration of their weekend Premier League stalemate against Manchester United. Curtis Jones scored twice and Dominik Szoboszlai, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah were all on the scoresheet fo...
•Mateo Kovacic celebrates goal Manchester City will have to cope without Erling Haaland as they aim to lift the Club World Cup for the first time in Friday’s final against Fluminense. The European champions shrugged off their sluggish Premier League form to cruise past Urawa Reds 3-0 in yesterday’s semi-final in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, reports [...
Six football shirts worn by Argentine megastar Lionel Messi at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been sold for $7.8 million at auction, the auction house told our correspondent yesterday. There were three bids in total on what auction house Sotheby’s described as “Lionel Messi’s match-worn iconic light blue and white, vertical striped Argentina...
The Minister of State for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has promised a partnership between the federal government and the sporting community in Agege to make the Obasa Cup football tournament a state-wide event. The Frontier reports that Olawande made the promise at the weekend at the Anwaru-Islam School venue of the final sporting even...
Ten-man Germany beat France on penalties to win the Under-17 World Cup football final in Indonesia yesterday, becoming the first team to win the world and European age titles in the same year. The match went to extra time when the teams were unable to break a 2-2 deadlock in humid conditions in Surakarta on […]