•Late Pele Brazil football legend Pele will be honoured in his home country with a commemorative day baptised “King Pele Day” , reports today’s edition of the government gazette. Considered by many the greatest footballer of all time, Edson Arantes do Nascimento — better known as Pele — won three World Cups with Brazil and […]...
•Georgia v Portugal Georgia’s powerful oligarch, Bidzina Ivanishvili will award the country’s national football team $10 million after they made it to the last 16 of Euro 2024, his ruling party said today. Georgia’s 2-0 win over Portugal yesterday was a historic triumph in the Black Sea nation’s first appearance at a major international tourna...
•Late Pele Celeste Arantes, the mother of Brazilian football legend Pele, has died aged 101, outliving her famous son by 18 months, the family announced yesterday. Arantes was 17 when she gave birth to her first child on October 23, 1940, a baby who would grow up to be the man widely considered the greatest […]
•Roberto Baggio Italian football legend Roberto Baggio has been hospitalised after being attacked by armed robbers who stormed his home. The intruders locked his family up while they watched last night’s Euro 2024 match between Italy and Spain. According to Daily Mail Sports, Baggio, 57, was at his home in Altavilla Vicentina, a small town [&h...
•Bayer Leverkusen Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen of 2023-24 stand on the cusp of greatness, with just 11 matches theoretically between them and a record undefeated season for a top-five European league team. Of the 42 matches they have so far played this campaign, they have won 37, drawn five and lost a grand total of […]
•Cristiano Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for one match for making an alleged offensive gesture during a Saudi Pro League game while playing for Al Nassr. After Al Nassr defeated their Riyadh rivals Al-Shabab 3-2 on Sunday, video footage appeared to show Ronaldo cupping his ear and repeatedly thrusting his hand forward near his [...
•Late Andreas Brehme German football legend, Andreas Brehme, who scored from the penalty spot to seal victory for West Germany against Argentina in the 1990 World Cup final, is dead. He died at the age of 63 overnight into this morning. Brehme’s death was announced by his former club, FC Bayern München. The club announced […]
•Late Raphael Dwamena Former Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena died yesterday after suffering a heart attack during an Albanian league match between KF Egnatia and FK Partizani, according to a statement by the Albanian football federation. “Paramedics on the pitch rushed him to hospital, where he died at the age of 28,” said the federation. Dwamen...
•Clement Temile Former Super Eagles players and other football personalities in Nigeria will converge on Lagos on Saturday, October 28 as one of their colleagues, Clement Temile, unveils his Football Foundation. Speaking ahead of the event scheduled to be held at the National Institute for Sports (NIS) in Lagos, Temile said he wants to use [&h...
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