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Lionel Messi has been awarded the 2019 Ballon d’Or as Cristiano Ronaldo snubbed this year’s edition of the awards. The Barcelona star won the award for a record sixth occasion, after previously lifting the prestigious […]

Arsenal Football Club has sacked Unai Emery as head coach for poor performance. Arsenal’s 2-1 Europa League loss to Eintracht Frankfurt on Thursday night was the final straw for club chiefs, culminating in the club’s […]

Nigerians may have been surprised to find their darling team, the Super Eagles dropping instead of rising in the latest International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) ranking released on October 24, 2019. Since in 1994 […]

Conor McGregor, Irish professional mixed martial artist and boxer, has called out Curtis Jackson, US rapper better known as 50 Cent, with a challenge to fight the rapper over his continued social media memes about […]

Sunday Dare, minister of sports, has approved the release of the money International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) wrongly paid to the account of its affiliate body in Nigeria in 2017. The global body was […]

UEFA announced on Tuesday that it is opening disciplinary proceedings against Turkey into “potential provocative political behaviour” by their players after making military salutes in their last two matches. In both their Euro 2020 qualifiers […]

Ebenezer Bajela The Nigeria Football Federation has denied claims that they owe Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, a three-month salary as reported on social media on Friday, saying the Franco-German is owed a month salary, […]

Nigerian-born Israel Adesanya knocked out Robert Whittaker in the second round to become the Universal Fighting Club (UFC) middleweight world champion. The style bender, as he is fondly called, dethroned Whittaker via second-round TKO (punches) […]

Sunday Dare, the minister for youth and sports development, has relocated his office to the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja. Dare stated that the move was in line with his promise to ensure that the […]

Former Super Eagles striker, Isaac Promise has died at the age of 31. Promise was the captain of the Beijing Olympics’ Eagles squad that won silver. A statement from the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, said […]

Many things and thoughts have engaged my creative consciousness since Friday last week. And my figural mind, as I am writing this, seems to be in and out of the minds of the thoughts to […]

Lionel Messi, Barcelonian forward, has set a record of winning the FIFA best male footballer of the year six times. The 32-year-old was announced the winner at a ceremony on Monday; beating his arch-rival Cristiano […]

Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr has assured Nigerian football fans that the goalkeeping problem that has plagued the national team is now a thing of the past, reports soccernet.ng. Since Vincent Enyeama retired from the […]

Let me note straightaway that the Spaniard Rafael Nadal the great professional tennis-player, who actually is greater than a great professional tennis-player, is my idol of the fabulous sport. His exploits in the just-ended US […]

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi could leave Camp Nou for MLS, according to Mundo Deportivo. Messi has an annual exit option in his deal and the five-time Ballon d’Or winner could swap Spain for the United […]

Manchester City have assembled the first billion euro squad, says a report by the CIES Football Observatory. Pep Guardiola’s side were the first team to win back-to-back Premier League titles since Manchester United 10 years […]

Anthony Joshua put on what he calls ‘my super-hero cape’ when he went to Saudi Arabia this week to cast himself as a catalyst for change in a land which his promoter Eddie Hearn is […]

Samson Siasia, former Super Eagles coach, has appealed the life ban slammed on him by world football governing body FIFA. In a statement seen by TheCable on Thursday, Siasia’s lawyer filed the appeal to FIFA […]

African footballers – like other players from developing countries – invariably earn sums of money far greater than their contemporaries back home. On average, some African players in the elite leagues can earn between €15,000 […]