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In June, the rematch between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk will take place in Saudi Arabia this is according to MailOnline. September last year, Usyk defeated Joshua in a bout and took his heavyweight title. Hopes of the former cruiserweight reclaiming his titles were almost dashed after Usyk returned to Ukraine, his country, […]
Falconets of Nigeria on Saturday evening defeated Senegal to pick up the ticket for the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. The Falconets trounced their Senegalese counterpart 4-1 at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin to make it 7-2 on aggregate. Flourish Sebastine netted a brace in the 8th and 19th minute to put […]
Algeria’s Desert Foxes on Friday beat hosts Indomitable Lions of Cameroon 1-0 in Douala for a crucial lead in their 2022 FIFA World Cup playoff. The 2019 African champions scored through Islam Slimani in the 40th minute of the first leg encounter to tip the balance of the fixture in their favour. The […]
Reactions trailing the Super Eagles of Nigeria, after seen jumping from an airplane upon arrival in Ghana for the World Cup playoffs. In a viral video online, the senior men’s team was spotted jumping from the airplane as the make-shift ramp provided as an improvisation for the unavailable air-stairs was too short. […]
Manchester United goalkeeper, Paul Woolston has been forced to retire at just 23 years old due to injury. Woolston joined United from Newcastle in 2018 and represented the club’s Under-23 side. The North Shields-born shot-stopper suffered an unknown injury that led him to have two operations and a lengthy rehabilitation period but unfortunately, […]
Portuguese Football Federation announced on Tuesday that Pepe will miss Portugal’s World Cup play-off semi-final against Turkey after testing positive for Covid-19 Coach Fernando Santos called up Lille centre-back Tiago Djalo, 21, to replace the 39-year-old Porto player, with the 2016 European champions also without injured Manchester City defender Ruben Dias. Cristiano Ronaldo and […]
Super Falcons are set to face Canada in a pair of exhibition games scheduled for April. The friendly games were announced in a statement on the Canada football association’s website on Wednesday. The statement described the matchup as a “west coast series” that would see the Tokyo Olympics gold medalists host the African […]
On Wednesday a great comeback was made by Real Madrid at the Champions League as Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick to upstage Kylian Mbappe and dump Paris Saint-Germain out of the last 16. Madrid were set to be the latest victims of another Mbappe masterclass at the Santiago Bernabeu after the 23-year-old ran […]
Brazilian football great Pele has been discharged from hospital following a urinary tract infection (UTI). The Brazil legend was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein on Feb. 13 for treatment on a colon tumour. Doctors discovered a UTI eight days after he was admitted but said on Monday that the issue has been […]
Daniil Medvedev succeeded Novak Djokovic as world number one on Monday, becoming the first man since 2004 outside the game’s “Big Four” of Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray to occupy the top spot. US Open champion Medvedev is the third Russian man after Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin, and 27th player […]
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