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Tammy Abraham has joined Roma from Chelsea on a five-year contract for £34m. The 23-year-old England striker was Chelsea’s joint-top goalscorer with 12 in all competitions last season but found first-team opportunities limited following the arrival of head coach Thomas Tuchel in January. Champions League winners Chelsea re-signed Romelu Lukaku for a club-record £97.5m […]
Chelsea have won the UEFA Super Cup after a 6-5 penalty victory over Villareal. The game ended with penalties after the score ended 1-1 after 120 minutes. Chelsea, winner of last season’s Champions League, started as the better side with about 70 per cent ball possession in the first half. Hakim Ziyech scored for […]
Lionel Messi finally signed his eagerly anticipated Paris Saint-Germain contract on Tuesday night to complete the move that confirms the end of a career-long association with Barcelona and sends PSG into a new era. The French club said in a statement that the 34-year-old Argentina star signed a two-year deal with the option for […]
Lionel Messi has left Barcelona after the La Liga club were unable to fulfil a new contract that had been agreed with the player. The Argentina star, who joined the club as a kid in 2000, left on Thursday. Barcelona announced on its website that the contract talks between both parties have gone south, […]
Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan produced three perfect-10 dives in a dazzling display to win the Olympic women’s 10m platform gold medal on Thursday. Quan, at 14 years old the youngest Chinese athlete in Tokyo, beat teammate Chen Yuxi into second with a remarkable overall score of 466.20 points. But Quan insisted that she should […]
Aston Villa signed Jamaica forward Leon Bailey from Bayer Leverkusen in a reported £30 million ($41 million) deal on Wednesday. Bailey, 23, agreed a four-year contract with the Premier League club, who are preparing for the likely departure of England playmaker Jack Grealish. Grealish has been linked with a move to Premier League champions […]
Ese Brume won Nigeria’s first medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday morning. Brume jumped 6.97 meters to clinch the bronze medal in the long jump event. The world championship bronze medallist became the first athlete to claim an Olympic medal for Nigeria in 13 years. Malaika Mihambo, the reigning world champion, claimed […]
Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha on Monday in Tokyo at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games advanced to the semi-finals in the women’s 200 metres event. Nwokocha ran a personal best of 22.47 seconds to finish third in heat 1 of the event to gain one of the automatic tickets to the semi-finals. Cote d’Ivoire’s Marie-Josee […]
It was another “near miss” for Team Nigeria on Monday at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as medal hope Tobiloba Amusan failed to deliver. Amusan, running from lane 6 in the women’s 100 metres hurdles final at the Olympic Stadium finished fourth after a time of 12.60 seconds. It was 0.05 of […]
US superstar Caeleb Dressel flew faster than Kyle Chalmers to add the Olympic 100m freestyle crown to his two world titles Thursday, as China’s women sparked a huge upset with a new world record to win the 4x200m relay. American Dressel missed out on the sprint medals at Rio in 2016, but he has […]
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