Category: Sports

Aubameyang Fires Arsenal Past Man City Into FA Cup final
July 19, 2020 No Responses

Aubameyang Fires Arsenal Past Man City Into FA Cup final

Arsenal ambushed holders Manchester City as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice in a 2-0 victory in the FA Cup semi-final at an empty Wembley Stadium on Saturday. A few days after beating Premier League champions Liverpool, Arsenal gave another gritty and...
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16-Year After, Leeds United Back In EPL
July 18, 2020 No Responses

16-Year After, Leeds United Back In EPL

Leeds United returned to the Premier League after a 16-year absence on Friday as West Bromwich Albion’s loss at Huddersfield Town guaranteed them a top-two finish in the Championship. A huge favour from Leeds’ Yorkshire neighbours, who won 2-1, meant...
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FIFA Bans Former Top Official, Kattner, For 10 years
July 1, 2020 No Responses

FIFA Bans Former Top Official, Kattner, For 10 years

Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has banned Markus Kattner, a former leading official in the Zurich organisation, for 10 years. The sports governing body fined him one million Swiss francs ($1.06 million) after a probe into bonus payments. FIFA said...
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Liverpool Fans Celebrate Premier League Title
June 26, 2020 No Responses

Liverpool Fans Celebrate Premier League Title

Thousands of Liverpool fans gathered at Anfield to celebrate the club’s first Premier League title. Supporters set off flares and fireworks after Chelsea’s 2-1 win against Manchester Citygave the Reds their first league title in 30 years. With...
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Murray Makes Winning Return After 7-Month Layoff
June 24, 2020 No Responses

Murray Makes Winning Return After 7-Month Layoff

Andy Murray enjoyed a winning return to action as he beat Liam Broady in the “Battle of the Brits’’ tournament at the national tennis centre in west London on Tuesday. The twice Wimbledon champion eased to a 6-2 6-2 victory...
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FIFA Explains Evaluation Of Colombia’s Bid To Host 2023 Women’s World Cup
June 21, 2020 No Responses

FIFA Explains Evaluation Of Colombia’s Bid To Host 2023 Women’s World Cup

FIFA is standing by its technical evaluation of Colombia’s bid to host the 2023 Women’s World Cup. It has now told the country’s unhappy football chief that the assessment was conducted in a “highly objective” manner. Colombian Football Federation pr...
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Nigerian Crowds Welcome Return Of English Football
June 18, 2020 No Responses

Nigerian Crowds Welcome Return Of English Football

The Manchester City-Arsenal game may have been played in an empty stadium in north-west England on Wednesday night because of the coronavirus pandemic but 6,500km (4,000 miles) away in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, there was little sign of any soc...
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Concerns About Dying CAF Champion League
June 8, 2020 No Responses

Concerns About Dying CAF Champion League

By  Abiodun Mohammed — About two months after the outbreak of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns imposed to curtail its spread in Africa, countries across the continent are gradually opening their economies. Sportsmen and women are also warming up...
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Again, Messi Misses Training
June 5, 2020 No Responses

Again, Messi Misses Training

FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi sat out Friday’s training session as he has a small thigh strain, the Spanish league champions have said. Barca returned to full training on Monday for the first time in three months ahead of the...
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FIFA Postpones U-17, U-20 Women’s World Cup
May 13, 2020 No Responses

FIFA Postpones U-17, U-20 Women’s World Cup

The world football governing body, FIFA, has announced the postponement of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women’s World Cup and the Futsal World Cup due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. A statement on FIFA website on Tuesday said the decision...
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FIFA Proposes Five Substitutions Per Match
April 27, 2020 No Responses

FIFA Proposes Five Substitutions Per Match

FIFA has proposed that teams should be allowed to make up to five substitutions per match, instead of the usual three, as a temporary measure to help cope with potential fixture congestion in the aftermath of the novel Coronavirus outbreak....
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European Football Leagues to Lose €4.1bn Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
April 22, 2020 No Responses

European Football Leagues to Lose €4.1bn Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

The coronavirus lockdown has already left a huge impact on the sports industry, causing thousands of sports games, competitions and professional leagues to be cancelled or postponed.  European football is no exception, with cancelled matches, empty stadiu...
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Quadri, Omotayo Drop In ITTF Ranking
April 17, 2020 No Responses

Quadri, Omotayo Drop In ITTF Ranking

Nigeria’s duo of Aruna Quadri and Olajide Omotayo have dropped in the April 2020 ranking released on Thursday by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). In spite of this however, Quadri still maintains his status as the highest-rated African player...
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Pay-Cut: FIFA Explains New Guidelines
April 6, 2020 No Responses

Pay-Cut: FIFA Explains New Guidelines

FIFA is getting ready to deal with complaints and appeals over wage cuts for players, an internal document seen by Reuters showed. According to the document, the world football body has now produced guidelines for clubs and football bodies looking...
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