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…
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PSG announce Neymar’s season-ending ankle surgery
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…
Usain Bolt to sue for missing $12.7 million from Jamaican investment firm
Olympic champion Usain Bolt wants to get back more than $12.7 million that went missing from his account with a Jamaican investment firm. Bolt’s lawyer says Bolt is ready to go to court if that is what it takes to get the money back. Bolt was alerted last week that his account balance at Kingston-based Read More…
Buhari mourns soccer legend Pele
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…
Pele dies at 82
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…
Putin says Russia is ready to bargain with Ukraine
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…
Soccer’s Greatest? It’s Pele!
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 looking into Chef Salt Bae’s admission to the World Cup final celebrations
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…
[Photos] Portugal face Morocco in Saturday quarter-finals after convincing 6-1 victory
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…
[Photos] Croatia beats Japan on penalties
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.