Category: Sports
Football legend Diego Maradona dies at 60
Football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home. He had successful surgery on
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John Obi Mikel joins Stoke City
John Obi Mikel has joined Stoke City, the club has confirmed. He is the fourth signing of the summer for the club. “The Nigerian international midfielder joins Morgan Fox, James Chester and Steven Fletcher in checking in at the bet365
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Nigerian basketball player dies during training in Serbia
Michael Ojo, a Nigerian basketball player who previously played for Red Star Belgrade, died at the age of 27 during a training session in the Serbian capital on Friday, the club said. “We are deeply saddened by the news”, Red
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Spain, R/Madrid legend, Iker Casillas retires from football
Former Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas has retired from football at the age of 39. Casillas made 725 appearances for Real during a 16-year career at the Bernabeu, winning three Champions League titles and five La Liga crowns.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wins FA Cup for Arsenal
Arsenal’s talisman Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang worked his Wembley magic once again as they came from behind to beat Chelsea and win the Heads Up FA Cup for a record 14th time. Chelsea took the lead inside five minutes through Christian Pulisic’s
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Football club loses boots to thieves in Brazil
ASA, a football club in Brazil, abandoned its long-awaited return to training on Sunday. This followed the discovery that most of their boots had been stolen from the stadium, Reuters reports. The 21 pairs of boots worth total of 7,000
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Manchester United’s day of misery: Utd 1- 3 Chelsea
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea endured a Wembley nightmare as Chelsea strolled to victory and set up an FA Cup final date with Arsenal. United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ditched his usual FA Cup keeper Sergio Romero to keep
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La Liga makes me happier – Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane says sealing a first La Liga title with Real Madrid in three years has made him happier than winning the Champions League. Real wrapped up the title with a game to spare as they edged past Villarreal at
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Super Eagles striker contracts COVID-19
Super Eagles striker, Paul Onuachu, has tested positive for COVID-19. However, the results of his fellow Nigerians: Stephen Odey and Cyril Dessers at Belgian club, Genk, came out negative. The 26-year-old becomes the first Super Eagles star to test positive
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CAF postpones 2021 Africa Cup of Nations
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee on Tuesday announced the postponement of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations by one year. The continental games will now hold in Cameroon in January 2022. The decision was reached after the
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Victor Osimhen wins best African player award in France
Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, has won the Marc-Vivien Foé RFI-France 24 Prize for best African player in the French Ligue 1, the French football championship for the 2019-2020 season. The runners up are the Algerian forward Islam Slimani (Monaco)
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Chelsea hands Liverpool EPL title after 30 years
Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions without kicking a ball on Thursday as Chelsea’s 2-1 win over Manchester City ended the Reds’ 30-year wait to win the English title. Jurgen Klopp’s men sealed a 19th league title for the club
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Novak Djokovic tests positive for COVID-19
Men’s world number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, has tested positive for COVID-19. Djokovic confirmed the diagnosis in a statement on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Serbian said that his wife, Jelena, also tested positive for coronavirus, but his children are negative.
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Results of EPL matches played yesterday, Sunday
14:00 FT: Sheffield United faltered on Sunday, in its bid for a Champions League spot, losing 3-0 at Newcastle, who could be under new ownership by a controversial Saudi-backed consortium. Manager Steve Bruce admitted before the match that it had been a
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Man Utd drew 1-1 with Jose Mourinho’s Spurs
Manchester United were finally back in action as they drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur tonight in London. It had been more than three months since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men last played a competitive fixture, with the Premier League suspended in March and
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Coppa Italia final: Napoli 4 – 2 Juventus on penalities
Napoli beat Juventus 4-2 on penalties to lift the Italian Cup for the sixth time after the score was 0-0 after 90 minutes in an empty Stadio Olimpco in Rome. It is the first trophy for the southerners since 2014,
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Manchester City sweeps aside 10-man Arsenal 3 – 0
Manchester City beat 10-man Arsenal 3-0 on Wednesday to delay Liverpool’s bid to win the Premier League title. Raheem Sterling’s opener was followed by Kevin De Bruyne’s penalty before Phil Foden netted on the first day of the Premier League
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Wilfred Ndidi rated 8th overall best EPL player
Leicester City midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, has been rated eighth overall best player in the English Premier League, according to statistics website, Whoscored.com. The rating also placed the Nigerian in second position as the best defensive midfielder in the division. The
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Anthony Joshua joins protest, says racism is a virus
World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua told a Black Lives Matter march on Saturday that protesters were the “vaccine” to the “virus” of racism. “The virus I am referring to is called racism,” he said, comparing its effects to the damage
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CONFIRMED! Manchester United extends Ighalo’s loan
Manchester United have extended Odion Ighalo’s loan until the end of January 2021, the club confirmed this on Twitter on Monday. Ighalo joined Manchester United in a Deadline Day move in January from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua. He has scored four times
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