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  Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister has been hospitalised with pneumonia due to complications in her fight against Covid. Katia Aveiro revealed she was in hospital in her native island of Madeira in an Instagram post. The 42-year-old singer is being treated at Dr Nelio Mendonca Hospital, the same place Cristiano’s beloved mum was taken for emergency surgery following her stroke last ...

  Piers Morgan has questioned US gymnast Simone Biles’ sudden departure from the Olympics team competition citing mental health issues after she performed poorly in the opening round of the games. According to him, young people need a better role model rather than blaming mental health for poor performances. The 24-year-old gymnast had on Tuesday July 27, that she wasn’t ...

  Manchester United have confirmed an agreement with Real Madrid for the signing of Raphael Varane. The 28-year-old centre-back will become Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s second major signing of the summer after the arrival of Jadon Sancho earlier in the month.   The two clubs agreed a fee, understood to be £34million ($47m) plus add ons, on Monday and the deal is now ...

Christian Eriksen was spotted out and about with his girlfriend and their young daughter for the first time since being released from hospital following his cardiac arrest. The 29-year-old collapsed during Denmark’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on June 12 and required urgent CPR treatment from on-site medics. Eriksen was brought back to life on the pitch in distressing scenes ...

Coleen Rooney will reportedly stand by her husband Wayne after he was photographed in a hotel room with three women. The 35-year-old Derby County manager was pictured partying in a nightclub after his team’s friendly against Salford City at the weekend, before pics of him asleep in a hotel room and selfies taken with the women went viral on social ...

Africa’s highest-ranked player Quadri Aruna on Tuesday crashed out of the men’s singles event of the table tennis competition at the ongoing Olympic Games in Tokyo. Aruna who reached the quarter-finals of the event at the Rio Games in 2016 could not go far this time around as he lost 2-4 in the third round. He lost to Brazil’s Gustavo ...

There will be no gold medal for the face of the Tokyo Olympics after Naomi Osaka was beaten by Marketa Vondrousova in the third round of the women’s singles. The 23-year-old had hoped to play a starring role in the Games on the court as well as off it but lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony will be ...

  Crystal Palace star Wilfried Zaha has announced the launch of his football academy in England on Monday. The ‘Wilfried Zaha Academy’ will start operations in South London this summer with only kids between the ages of 5 to 12 allowed to enrol for the football camp.   Zaha’s gesture is believed to be one of the ways he is giving back ...

Wayne Rooney is in another extramarital scandal as pictures from a hotel room with semi-n3ked girls after a boozy night have gone viral. It’s believed Wayne Rooney called the police after photos emerged of him in a hotel room with three scantily clad women. The former Man United ace, 35, partied into the early hours with Snapchat model Tayler Ryan and ...

  Momiji Nishiya has become one of Japan’s Olympic champions at the age of just 13 after taking the gold medal in women’s street skateboarding.   Nishiya’s final audacious trick saw her win the title, with the average age of the podium incredibly just 13.5. Brazil’s sensation Rayssa Leal clinched silver at the same age, while the women’s bronze went ...

Nigeria’s Offiong Edem on Monday knocked out of the women’s singles event of the table tennis competition at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Edem lost 4-1 to Lily Zhang of the U.S at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, in spite of winning the first set 15-13. After beating Hungary’s Dora Madarasz in her opening round fixture, Edem failed to ...

  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has signed a new contract at Manchester United to keep him at the club until 2024, with the option for a further year. The Norwegian replaced Jose Mourinho when he was sacked in 2018 and had one year left on his current deal but has put pen to paper on new terms. Solskjaer led United to second ...

  Manchester United have completed the signing of Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund for a fee of £73 million ($101m). The England international, who was part of the Three Lions squad that finished runners-up at Euro 2020, becomes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first signing of the summer after he successfully completed a medical and agreed personal terms to join the Red Devils. And ...

  Real Madrid have revealed that star striker Karim Benzema has tested positive for Covid-19. The Liga giants, who are now working under the guidance of Carlo Ancelotti, are in the process of piecing together their plans for 2021-22. A France international forward will play no part in pre-season training for the foreseeable future as he must now take in ...

  The Italian Football Association has confirmed that Christian Eriksen will not be allowed to play for Inter Milan again unless the defibrillator installed after his cardiac arrest while on Denmark duty is removed.   The 29-year-old collapsed during his country’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on June 12 and required urgent CPR treatment from pitch-side medics. Eriksen was brought ...

  Tottenham striker Harry Kane is poised to join Manchester City this summer in a blockbuster £160million deal after Spurs chairman Daniel Levy agreed to let him leave, according to The Sun. Kane, 27, has long been linked with a move to the Premier League champions and will reportedly earn £400,000 per week at City. Ahead of Euro 2020, Kane told ...

A Premier League footballer arrested over alleged sex offences has been moved into a ‘safe house’, it has been claimed. The Everton star, who has not been named for legal reasons, was detained by Greater Manchester Police on Friday and is said to strenuously deny the allegations. The football club – which confirmed it had suspended the player – is ...

The defender saw his actions at the weekend go viral on social media after he converted twice past his own goalkeeper.Inter Allies defender Hashmin Musah has confessed to scoring two intentional own goals in Saturday’s Ghana Premier League clash with Ashanti Gold in order to defy an attempt at match-fixing from his own team. The club went down 7-0 in ...

Ahmed Musa is in line to make a departure from Kano Pillars in Nigeria so as to complete his summer transfer to a club-side in the Turkish Super Lig in the new week.Complete Sports had exclusively reported last month that a Turkish Super Lig club offered Musa a mouth-watering one-year deal that is worth €2.2m (1.05 billion naira). According to ...

  Everton have suspended a member of their first-team squad pending a police investigation. No details have been revealed regarding the player in question or the charges involved. The Premier League club are, however, assisting the authorities with their inquiries. A statement on the club’s official website reads: “Everton can confirm it has suspended a first-team player pending a police investigation. “The club ...

  Officials are looking to discourage Athletes from engaging in sexual activity at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as they installed cardboard beds in the Olympic village. According to Dezeen magazine, Olympic officials who already warned 2021 Games participants to avoid two-person push-ups because of the coronavirus, set up 18,000 of the cardboard beds in the notoriously sex-crazed athletes’ village. “Those ...

  Super Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho has stated that Leicester City are good to win the Premier League in the new campaign. The towering attacker was in a good form in the 2020/21 season and went on to score 19 goals for the Brendan Rodgers-led team. “Obviously, I scored goals last season,” Iheanacho told the club’s official portal on Monday. ...

Former Ajax winger, Andy van der Meyde, has revealed that AC Milan striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, slapped him after he kissed the Swedish international. Van der Meyde and Ibrahimovic, 39, were team-mates from 2001 to 2003 at Ajax. The pair were big egos amongst a fiery dressing room which featured huge prospects like Rafael van der Vaart, and they were known ...

  U.S. tennis star Coco Gauff will no longer lead the U.S. tennis team at the Tokyo Olympics. She has announced that she tested positive for the coronavirus, dashing her hopes of competing in the Games. “It has always been a dream of mine to represent the USA at the Olympics, and I hope there will be many more chances ...

Lionel Messi’s Instagram post celebrating Argentina’s Copa America win has become the most liked photo from an athlete on the social media website. The Barcelona star captained his national team to victory in the tournament with a 1-0 win against Brazil. It is the first major trophy the attacker has won with Argentina, having previously lost in three Copa America ...