Sierra Leone have been disqualified from the preliminaries for the 2019 African Nations Cup finals, confirming places for Kenya and Ghana at the continental championship next June-July.
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UEFA will fast-track the implementation of Video Assistant Referees for the knockout stages of its Champions League this season, its president Aleksander Ceferin said on Monday.
The Chairman of SWAN, Lagos State, Debo Oshundun, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Monday, congratulated the female national team for their doggedness at the 2018 AWCON.
The continental football governing body said its Executive Committee, at its meeting on Friday in Accra, took the decision after reviewing the case of Sierra Leone in the qualifiers.
Okeke told the News Agency of Nigeria on the telephone from Johannesburg, South Africa, that there was the need for the team’s handlers to reorganise the team.
after La Liga club said on Monday that he has taken the decision to undergo surgery in his home country of Brazil to treat a chronic foot injury.
Liverpool manager, Juergen Klopp, to his Everton counterpart Marco Silva after runniapologised ng on to the pitch in wild celebration of Divock Origi’s 96th-minute winner in the Merseyside derby at Anfield on Sunday.
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi and other soccer fans in the state have congratulated the Super Falcons for its 2018 African Women Cup of Nations triumph which ensured an overall 9th title win.
English Premier League clubside, Southampton, on Monday sacked Mark Hughes as manager, with the club mired in the relegation zone after only one victory this season.
David Villa will reunite with his former Barcelona and Spain team-mate Andres Iniesta after joining Japanese side Vissel Kobe.
Cristiano Ronaldo was dubbed a “king” as his penalty sent Juventus 11 points clear at the top of Serie A while breaking a 50-year-old club record.
The qualifying draw for Euro 2020 took place in Dublin on Sunday, handing England a favourable group to reach the pan-European showpiece.
Jose Mourinho’s public fallout with Manchester United star Paul Pogba has escalated further after Saturday evening’s draw at Southampton.
Days after the Confederation of African Football announced that it has stripped former hosts Cameroon of the rights to stage Africa’s biggest competition next year, South Africa has confirmed the country could step in and spare the blushes of CAF by hosting the biannual tournament, AOIFootball.com reports.
Divock Origi scored a bizarre 96th-minute winner to snatch Liverpool a dramatic 1-0 victory over Everton in the Merseyside derby at Anfield on Sunday.
Real Madrid midfielder, Luka Modric is tipped to end Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s decade of Ballon d’Or dominance when the winner is announced on Monday.
The Africa’s richest man and business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has splashed out a princely sum of N50million on victorious Super Falcons.
The Chief of Staff to the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), Alhaji Abba Kyari, was at the head of a delegation of prominent Nigerians and top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation that received the Super Falcons on arrival in Abuja on Sunday evening.
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, described the Super Falcons of Nigeria as embodiment of the winning mentality and resilience of the country against any challenge.
Goals from Pedro and Ruben Loftus-Cheek have earned Chelsea a 2-0 victory over Fulham in Sunday’s West London derby at Stamford Bridge.