Three new players have joined the Enugu-based Rangers International Football Club in order to strengthen their second-round 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League campaign (NPFL). Norbert Okolie, the club’s media officer, told reporters in Enugu on Monday that this was a sign the team was prepared for the rest of the season. Austin Osayande, Leonard Ugochukwu, Read More…
Neymar will miss the rest of the season due to ankle surgery, according to Monday’s announcement from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), a French club. The Brazilian has not played since injuring his ankle in the 4-3 victory against Lille in February. Neymar won the Ligue 1 match against Nantes 4-2 as club head coach Christophe Galtier Read More…
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined international leaders in mourning the death of Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele, a Brazilian soccer great who died on Thursday. The world’s finest football player died after a long battle with cancer. He won three World Cups and scored over 1,281 goals over his long career, earning Read More…
The renowned Brazilian soccer player Pele, who rose from barefoot squalor to become one of the finest and most well-known athletes in contemporary history, passed away on Thursday at the age of 82. Pele passed away at 3:27 PM, according to Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital, where he was receiving medical attention “due to multiple Read More…
President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview that was aired on Sunday that Russia is willing to dialogue with all parties involved in the conflict in Ukraine but that Kyiv and its Western allies have so far declined to do so. Since the end of World War Two, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on Read More…
As Qatar 2022 kicked off, Arabophobiacs went on overdrive with unsavoury stories about the host country. The stories ranged from deaths recorded during the construction of the various facilities to ‘human rights’ (read: gay rights) concerns. Those who thought nothing good could come out of that region were roundly disappointed in the end. Qatar gave Read More…
FIFA is looking into how Salt Bae, a famous chef, got “undue access” to Argentina’s post-World Cup festivities on the field. After the finals, Salt Bae, a Turkish chef and online personality whose real name is Nusret Gokce, shared multiple pictures of himself with the World Cup trophy. A shot with Lionel Messi and numerous Read More…
Goncalo Ramos, who replaced Cristiano Ronaldo in Portugal’s starting lineup, scored a spectacular hat-trick to capture the headlines as Portugal easily qualified for the quarter-finals with a 6-1 victory against Switzerland. Ramos started the score before Pepe put Portugal ahead before the interval. Ramos added his second and Portugal’s third goal after the break, with Read More…
Croatia advanced to the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals for the third time in their history after defeating Japan on penalties.Dominik Livakovic, the goalie for Croatia, stopped three penalty kicks. Below are pictorial highlights of the match, courtesy FIFA.
Argentina defeated a furious Australia comeback to win 2-1 on Saturday and go to the quarterfinals. Lionel Messi scored his first goal in a World Cup elimination game in his 1,000th match to surpass Diego Maradona’s championship total. In a game where he played a key role in nearly every Argentine attack, Messi gave his Read More…
