The 1998 World Cup winner and Blancos legend showed his delight in succeeding Benitez, and set his sights on silverware by the end of his first season Zinedine Zidane has thanked Real Madrid president Florentino Perez for the opportunity to replace Rafa Benitez as coach. The Frenchman was presented as the latest trainer of the […]
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CRISTIANO Ronaldo says he will live like a king when he retires from football, but he does not envisage himself remaining in the game as a manager. The Real Madrid star will turn 31 in February and it’s inevitable that over the next few years there will be rumours about his next move. However, Ronaldo […]
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WITH Gbolahan Salami opting out of the squad, Sunshine Stars’ striker Tunde Adeniji and Abia Warriors Chisom Chikatara lead the Super Eagles to Rwanda for the CHAN title. According to GOAL, Nigeria has named her 23-man squad players for the 2016 African Nations Championship in Rwanda. The Super Eagles will face Niger Republic, Tunisia and […]
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Lionel Messi has revealed Ronaldinho told him to take his No.10 shirt months before the Brazilian left Barcelona in 2008. Ronaldinho joined Barcelona in 2003 and inherited the iconic number from Argentine midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme – who was sent on loan to Villarreal for two seasons. The Brazilian star left after six years with […]
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Samson Siasia has said he never discussed including Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel, into Nigeria’s 2016 Olympic football squad with anyone, TheNation Report. The local media was awash with stories that Mikel could be a shock inclusion to the squad with the players reportedly informing an unnamed “source” about his intention to play at the […]
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation. They were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) “disloyal payment” made to Platini in 2011. The Fifa ethics committee found Blatter and Platini had demonstrated an “abusive execution” of their […]
Read More Lionel Messi will miss Barcelona’s Fifa Club World Cup semi-final against Guangzhou Evergrande on Thursday because of renal colic. The Catalan giants, who triumphed in the competition in 2009 and 2011, launch their bid for a third title against the Chinese side at the International Stadium Yokohama, but will have to do so without the […]
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A much lower proposal of 150,000 Naira per player of the victorious Golden Eaglets has been tabled by the sports ministry after a proposal of 750,000 Naira-a-player was rejected by the Presidency as “too much.” The Federal Government, according to africanFootball, has rejected an initial proposal by the sports ministry to reward the Eaglets after […]
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The coach of the Under-23 team, Samson Siasia, has dedicated the team’s victory at the Senegal 2015 Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations to his mother Beauty Siasia and President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria beat Algeria 2-1 in the final in Dakar, after qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympics. In an interview with Brila FM on Monday, […]
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The Super Eagles Team B will be playing Ivory Coast next month in an international friendly, while in South Africa for its training tour as the count down to the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) gets underway. President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick who confirmed the development to SportingLife, said the federation would […]
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Yaya Toure has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2015. The 32-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder becomes only the third player, after Nigerians Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, to receive the honour twice. Football fans voted for Manchester City’s Toure, who first won in 2013, ahead of Yacine Brahimi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew […]
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Former Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has lost his wife Kate to untimely death, he has confirmed to Completesportsnigeria Keshi who is currently in the USA told Completesportsnigeria that his late wife has been ill for a while before giving up the ghost on Wednesday. “She was ill for a while now and I’m still […]
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