Seeking a return to the final for the first time since 2013, the 1997 winners were dogged and determined, outmuscling their heavily favoured opponents. Fuellkrug, playing in his first Champions League season at the age of 31, collected a lofted pass from centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck in the 36th minute and ...
England manager Gareth Southgate has confirmed that Declan Rice will captain the team for Tuesday’s international friendly against Belgium. Rice played all 90 minutes as the Three Lions lost 1-0 to Brazil on Saturday. The Arsenal midfielder will now lead the team out when they take on the Red Devils ...
Brazil winger Vinicius Junior said his desire to play football was reducing as incidents of racial abuse aimed at him piled up in Spain, during a tearful media appearance Monday. The Real Madrid forward has suffered abuse from opposition fans on many occasions in recent years, with one incident in ...
“Nottingham Forest can confirm that it has today lodged an appeal against the four point sanction imposed by the Commission in relation to the Club’s breach of the Premier League’s Profit & Sustainability Rules,” the club said in a brief statement on its website. “The club will not be making ...
Another rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana is on the cards at the ongoing 2023 African Games in Ghana as the Falconets clash against the hosts in the final of the female football event on Thursday (today) at the Cape Coast Stadium. To set up the clash, Nigeria secured a 2-0 ...
Nigeria’s Under-20 female football team, the Falconets, will take on Ghana on Thursday in the final of the women’s football event at the 13th African Games in Ghana. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Falconets booked their place in the finals after defeating Uganda 2-0 in the ...
Barely hours after his appointment as interim Head Coach of the Super Eagles, ex international Finidi George, had his first meeting with backroom staff of the Nigerian senior national team in Marrakech, Morocco. The three-time African champions who finished as finalists at the AFCON 2023 in Côte d’Ivoire last month ...
The Super Eagles camp for the game opened on Tuesday. But Osimhen, Africa’s Player of the Year, would miss the matches, according to an update on the team’s social media page. Osimhen, 25, has struggled with fitness in the past weeks and will not make the 22nd and 26 March ...
Sunday’s draw for the last four raised the prospect of a repeat of last season’s all-Manchester FA Cup final, which City won 2-1. Treble-chasing City eased through to the semi-finals with a 2-0 victory over Newcastle on Saturday. Chelsea needed two stoppage-time goals to beat Championship promotion chasers Leicester 4-2 ...
Nigerian defender, Bright Osayi-Samuel, who plays for Turkish club, Fenerbahçe, was seen knocking a violent pitch invader to the ground during a chaotic on-pitch brawl on Sunday night. Tension escalated at the end of Fenerbahce’s 3-2 victory over Trabzonspor in the Turkish Super Lig. Former Manchester United player, Fred, netted ...
