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Ghana’s Football Association has sacked the coaches of all their men’s and women’s national teams.
Arsenal FC star, Alex Iwobi, and Leicester City’s Wilfried Ndidi previewed the new designs of the national team jerseys in London on Thursday.
Senegal’s coach Aliou Cisse has had his contract extended up to 2021 while his salary has also been upwardly reviewed.
Super Eagles stand-in captain, Ahmed Musa, has been crowned the Footballer of the Year of the 2018 Nigerian Sports Award.
Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, is countenancing a second feat on-the-bounce of qualifying Nigeria’s Super Eagles for a major championship with a match to spare.
2018 FIFA World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe scored twice as champions Paris St Germain completed a second half comeback to secure a 3-1 win over En Avant Guingamp on Saturday.
Rivers United have declared right back, Markson Ojobo, Absent Without Official Leave after he absconded from the club’s camp.
Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, on Friday said Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling were available for selection for their English Premier League opener against Arsenal on Sunday.
The union said this has happened less than four weeks after returning from Russia, and the players had been without a sufficient close season break.
The Embassy of Nigeria in Moscow, Russia, said this in a statement made available to newsmen by its First Secretary, Desmond Nwosu, on Sunday in Abuja.
The President made the commendation at a farewell audience with the outgoing Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Denys Gauer, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday.
Atletico Madrid coach, Diego Simeone, on Thursday heaped praise on an inexperienced squad shorn of key players still resting from their 2018 FIFA World Cup exploits.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 75 out of 230 stranded Nigerian football fans vanished in Russia after the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The ministry’s Spokesperson, Dr Tope Elias-Fatile, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja that the fans absconded in spite of government’s efforts to repatriate them.
Though Musa had snubbed earlier summer transfer offers from Galatasaray of Turkey and Huddersfield Town of England, Al Nassr Riyad are of a view that their bait would be too tempting for the former CSKA Moscow of Russia speedster to resist.
“The fact that the president did not attend the matches [of the Russian team] does not mean that [he didn’t cheer for the Russian football players:] he did root for our team,” Peskov said in a conversation with reporters.
Belgium and France will meet in an epic 2018 FIFA World Cup semi-final fixture at the St Petersburg Arena, with Sunday’s final match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in their sight.
It will be displayed alongside the replica of the Jules Rimet Cup, the trophy that was first presented to winners in 1930 when the competition started.
The coach rather said his team was just not good enough to beat their opponents, England, stating that his players tried their best “to even reach the competition’s last eight stage”.