Barcelona crashed out of the Champions League on Wednesday as their 3-0 defeat at Bayern Munich saw the Spanish giants fail to reach the last 16 for the first time in 18 years. Goals by Thomas Mueller and Leroy Sane gave Bayern a 2-0 half-time cushion in falling snow...
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Brazilian football legend Pele has been hospitalized for treatment of a previously identified colon tumor, his doctors said Wednesday, the latest health problem for the 81-year-old icon. The three-time world champion was admitted to Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo “for follow-up treatment of the colon tumor identified in...
The newly rehabilitated pitch of the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja is set to host a pre-season tournament tagged Presidential Cup. Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Sports, Daniel Amokachi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja. Amokachi said the tournament scheduled to commence on Friday,...
Kyle Walker was shown a late red card as Manchester City suffered a shock 2-1 defeat at RB Leipzig Tuesday, but City still advanced to the Champions League’s last 16 as group winners. Walker was dismissed seven minutes from time for kicking Leipzig striker Andre Silva, who had earlier...
Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi both scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain rounded out their Champions League group-stage campaign with a 4-1 thumping of Club Brugge on Tuesday. Mbappe scored twice in the first seven minutes, the second-fastest double at the start of a game in Champions League history, before...
By YAKUBU SUNDAY, Abuja – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says plans are underway to reinstate and assemble a formidable Super Sand Eagles team that can compete globally. NFF Secretary-General, Mohammed Sanusi, said this on Tuesday at the official commissioning of the African Beach Soccer Union (ABSU) office situated...
The United States continued to sit atop the latest edition of the FIBA women’s basketball world rankings released on Monday, while China stayed seventh on the rankings. The 10 highest-ranked sides are the United States, Spain, Australia, Canada, France, Belgium, China, Japan, Turkey and Serbia. Turkey moved up to...
Aruna Quadri has recorded his first victory at the ongoing World Table Tennis (WTT) Cup championship in Singapore. Quadri, who is representing Nigeria at the Championship, defeated the world number eight player, Liang Jingkun of China to 3-1 (7–11, 11-1, 14-12,11-5) in round 16 of the men’s singles event...
Rivers United have bowed out of the CAF Confederations Cup following a 0-1 away loss to Al Masry on Sunday. The Port Harcourt-based side came into the encounter on the heels of a 2-1 win in the first leg of the encounter and needed at least a draw to...
Nigerian giants, Enyimba, defeated Al-Ittihad of Libya 2-0 in a CAF Confederation Cup encounter on Sunday. The Peoples Elephant took the lead in the 21st minute after Sadiq Abubakar connected neatly to a cross from Yakubu Bilal. A few minutes later, Victor Mbaoma, doubled the scoreline as the Nigerian...
Barcelona suffered their first defeat under Xavi Hernandez on Saturday as a 1-0 loss at home to Real Betis inflicted another blow on their hopes of catching La Liga’s top four. A surprise defeat at Camp Nou damages Barca’s bid to qualify for next season’s Champions League, four days...
Thomas Tuchel admitted Chelsea paid the price for too many “individual mistakes” as Arthur Masuaku’s fortuitous late winner gave West Ham a shock 3-2 victory on Saturday. Tuchel’s side went ahead through Thiago Silva but Manuel Lanzini’s penalty drew West Ham level at the London Stadium. Mason Mount restored...
The numbers: 1,097 games, 801 goals. Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player in history to score 800 top-level career goals when he struck twice for Manchester United in a 3-2 win over Arsenal on Thursday. It was a typical Ronaldo response to recent suggestions that his style of play...
Chelsea squeezed past Watford 2-1 to maintain their slender lead at the top of the Premier League on Wednesday night. Mason Mount was decisive for the league leaders, scoring the 29th-minute opener and then setting up Hakim Ziyech for the winner after Watford had equalized from Bonaventure’s deflected 43rd-minute...
In a recent interview with iFL TV, Anthony Joshua admitted that his loss to Oleksandr Usyk has weighed heavily on him but that he is using it as fuel to improve. He said, “A lot of times I wake up in the morning and the fight and fighting is...
Four people died, including a baby and a three-year-old boy, in a fire that ripped through an abandoned bank occupied by squatters in central Barcelona on Tuesday, Spanish firefighters said. Firefighters rescued four other people who were inside the building while putting out the blaze, the head of the...
Robert Lewandowski and FC Bayern Munich did their best to hide their disappointment after Lionel Messi beat him to the Ballon d’Or. However, former Bayern star, Lothar Matthaeus, was adamant the Poland striker should have won. Lewandowski was awarded the new striker of the year award at the gala...
Super Eagles striker Odion Ighalo is hoping that Victor Osimhen will recover in time to lead Nigeria’s attack at the forth coming Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon as he will be ‘needed’ at the tournament. Napoli forward Osimhen suffered a serious injury to his eye socket after collision...
Lionel Messi won the men’s Ballon d’Or award for a record-extending seventh time at a ceremony in Paris on Monday. The Argentine beat, Polish forward, Roberto Lewandowski, to win the prize on the same night that Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, also clinched the Yashin Trophy. Below is a list...
Lionel Messi won the men’s Ballon d’Or award for a record-extending seventh time at a ceremony in Paris on Monday. Messi won the last edition of the Ballon d’Or in 2019 before last year’s awards were cancelled due to the pandemic. He also won in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...