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 ...
The 2024 Ondo Auto Rally has announced that it will feature the newly commissioned X-kart race series in the country when it flags off on March 29th to 30th in Ilara Mokin in Ondo State. President of the Work and Play group, Adeoye Ojuoko, said the X-Kart series that started ...
“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 ...
Nigeria finished second on the medals table behind Egypt with 47 gold, 33 silver and 40 bronze medals. Hours after the team returned to the country, the Minister of Sports Development, John Enoh, conveyed President Bola Tinubu’s congratulatory message to the athletes. ”Yesterday I received the Team Nigeria delegation to ...
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 ...
Amusan, who is the 100mH world record holder, was a clear favourite ahead of the race, was shown a yellow after beating the gun for the first time but lined up again. On the second time of the gun going off, Amusan did not make any mistake, sprinting to an ...
The Nigeria Chess community was thrown into mourning mood yesterday after the news of the death of its foremost supporter of the game, Engineer Jonathan Odega broke. He was aged 65 and hailed from Ubulu Okiti, Aniocha South Local Government area of Delta State. According to the Media Director of ...
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 ...
