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Anthony Martial has been rewarded for his impressive recent form with Manchester United by being recalled to the France squad by coach Didier Deschamps on Thursday. Martial, who has scored five goals in United’s last four Premier League games, comes in for France’s Nations League match in the Netherlands on November 16 and their home […]
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola insisted there was still room for improvement from Raheem Sterling after the forward’s astonishing performance in a 6-1 win over Southampton that returned his team to the top of the Premier League. The defending champions remain on course to better last season’s record-breaking tally of 106 goals after another emphatic […]
Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr said Monday he will come out of retirement to fight a Japanese kickboxer half his age, Tenshin Nasukawa, on New Year’s Eve in Saitama. The 41-year-old unbeaten American, who won world titles in five different weight divisions and was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the sport, out-boxed Irish mixed […]
After winning eight out of the past ten editions, the defending champions Super Falcons will kick off their 2018 AWCON, against South Africa on November 18 in Cape Coast after they were drawn in Group B which has Kenya and Zambia ahead of the forthcoming 11th Total Women’s Africa Cup of Nation in Ghana. Hosting […]
Barcelona face an anxious wait on Lionel Messi’s fitness ahead of next weekend’s Clasico after the striker injured his arm against Sevilla on Saturday. Messi had his right arm strapped at the Camp Nou after he had tried to cushion a fall but was unable to continue and had to replaced in the 26th […]
Nigeria’s Super Falcons and Ghana’s Black Queens have been seeded for the Africa Women’s Cup of Nations draw taking place on Sunday night. Hosts Ghana are seeded in Group A with position A1, while Nigeria headlines Group B by virtue of being defending champions and the most successful team in the history of the competition. […]
England left-back Luke Shaw believes he can be a catalyst for a turnaround in Manchester United’s fortunes after signing a new five-year contract with the Premier League giants on Thursday. Shaw, 23, was in the final year of the deal he signed four years ago when joining from Southampton as the world’s most expensive teenager […]
Super Falcons Head Coach, Thomas Dennerby, has invited 45 players for the first phase of his team camping, ahead of November’s Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. A statement by Ademola Olajire, spokesperson of the Nigeria Football Federation, said the 45 players is made up of 29 home based and 19 foreign based players have […]
Nigeria survived a late scare to beat Libya 3-2 in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group E match on Tuesday in Sfax, Tunisia. The Super Eagles got off to the best possible start as they took an early goal through their in-form marksman Odion Ighalo 13 minutes into the game. Ahmed Musa doubled […]
Pierre Kompany, the father of Manchester City captain and Belgian international defender Vincent, became Belgium’s first black elected mayor on Monday after his party topped the poll in the Brussels suburb Ganshoren. Pierre Kompany, 71, arrived in Belgium in 1975 as a refugee from what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has since […]
