The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has made known the financial rewards for participating nations at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, tournament in Cote d’Ivoire. The winner of the tournament will receive $7 million…
Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has activated a clause in his contract that will enable him to leave his Mercedes team at the end of this coming season, a year earlier than scheduled, Hamilton and the team said on…
Angola coach Pedro Goncalves has said his team will be up against a powerful Super Eagles side in the Quarter-finals of the AFCON 2023 on Friday. The Palancas Negras will be seeking a first-ever semi-final appearance at the AFCON. They…
It's been a very long time since things have looked so bleak for women's football in Germany, with the latest blow being the fact that no Bundesliga teams has managed to last beyond the group stage of the Champions League. "It breaks my…
Former Nigeria international Duke Udi has said legendary Super Eagles captain Sunday Oliseh stopped the practice of home-based players getting paid in naira while foreign-based players got theirs in dollars. Udi who disclosed this in an…
The Serie A title credentials of Inter Milan and Juventus will be on the line on Sunday as two giants of Italian football face off in a San Siro showdown. Holding a one-point lead and a game in hand, Inter will have more than 70,000 fans…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, will undergo a late test to determine his fitness to face Angola in the quarter-final of the 2023 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) on Friday. According to team medics, Nwabali sustained a…
By Itunu Azeez Kareem 01 February 2024 | 8:57 am As AFCON 2023 in Cote d’Ivoire intensifies, Nigeria emerges as the top contender after the elimination of Senegal and Morocco. The Opta supercomputer gives Nigeria a 28.8% chance to clinch…
With the five highest rated teams out of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, bookmakers have installed Nigeria as the new favourites to win the title on February 11. Before the competition kicked off, 2022 FIFA World Cup semifinalists,…
The napkin 13-year-old Lionel Messi signed his first contract with FC Barcelona on will be auctioned with a starting price of £300,000 ($381,000 or €352,000), British auction house Bonhams said on Wednesday. The piece of memorabilia, which…
Liverpool remain on course to send Jurgen Klopp off as a Premier League winner after Chelsea were thrashed 4-1 at Anfield on Wednesday. Conor Bradley was the star of the show as the 20-year-old right-back scored and teed up goals for Diogo…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles defender William Troost-Ekong has said the team is motivated to improve as the AFCON 2023 tournament progresses. The Eagles will be back in action on Friday, 2 January when they will take on Angola. The three-time…
By Guardian Nigeria 31 January 2024 | 2:36 am The Super Eagles will face Lionel Messi’s Argentina in a friendly game in March, the Argentina Football Association (ASA) has announced. The Super Eagles will face Lionel Messi’s Argentina in a…
Ever since last week's surprise announcement that Jürgen Klopp would be stepping down as Liverpool head coach at the end of the season, speculation as to his possible successor has sent football's rumor mill into overdrive. And nowhere…
Organizers of the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics have come under pressure from a South Korean parents association following reports they had provided condoms to the participants, who are aged between 13 and 18. Over 1,800 young…
By James Agberebi 30 January 2024 | 8:44 am Nigeria’s Super Eagles will take on reigning world champions Argentina in an international friendly game in March 2024. There is no official announcement yet from the Nigeria Football Federation …
Each player of Palancas Negras, the Angolan national team, will get the princely sum of five million kwansas, which is about N5.4 million, if they succeed in beating the Super Eagles in the quarterfinal of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations…
Angola’s captain, Fredy, has boasted that his team would continue its dominance over Nigeria when they meet in the quarterfinals of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire on Friday. Fredy, who declared that the Palanca Negras…
West Africa’s best golfers have assembled at the Ikeja Golf Course to compete in the second Acutech Pro-Am Golf Championship, which offers N15 million prize to winners. The championship, which teed off at Ikeja Golf Club on Monday, ushers…
Golfers representing Yoke Solutions successfully defended their title at the 2024 Corporate Challenge Cup hosted by the Ikeja Golf Club at the weekend. The golfers, Gbenga Ayodele, Arun Sharma, Babatunde Ojo and Fawze Talal earned an…
By Christian Okpara 30 January 2024 | 3:53 am The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that it will hold the draw ceremony for the African Games football tournaments (Men and Women) on February 1 at the Sofitel Hotel in…
Head Coach José Peseiro has warned his Super Eagles to keep level heads and manage the euphoria of their quarter-final qualification, as they countenance a tough last-eight clash with Angola’s Palancas Negras on Friday. The Portuguese…
The Court of Administration for Sport (CAS) announced on Monday that it had banned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for a period of four years – with the time frame beginning a few weeks before the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter…
By James Agberebi 29 January 2024 | 10:41 am Nigeria's Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has said he desires to give Nigerians something to remember at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Côte d’Ivoire. Osimhen was instrumental…
Record seven-time champions Egypt, lacking injured talisman Mohamed Salah, were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday after losing a penalty shootout 8-7 against DR Congo. Goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi converted the winning spot…
Players and officials of the Super Eagles are worried that the injury that saw first choice goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, stretchered off the field during Nigeria’s round of 16 clash with Cameroon may keep the South Africa-based keeper out…
Who makes the decision in tennis? The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the world governing body responsible for the rules of the game. The ITF is made up of 213 national federations. It also organizes the Olympic tennis tournaments…
"We just have to forget it," said Jürgen Klopp in the moments following his first match since announcing Friday he'd leave Liverpool. But for the fans who sang his name in the opening minute of a 5-2 FA Cup win over Norwich, despite his…
Felicitas Rauch's departure from Wolfsburg to join North Carolina Courage in the US was a surprise. That it came a week after Bayern Munich's Lina Magull left to join Inter Milan was a shock. Two seasoned Germany internationals have left…
Nigeria’s Super Eagles defeated Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions to progress into the quarter-finals of the AFCON 2023 in Côte d’Ivoire. A brace from Ademola Lookman helped the three-time AFCON winners progress where they will face Angola on…