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  Alexia Putellas of Barcelona and Spain won the women’s Ballon d’Or prize at a ceremony in Paris on Monday, completing a remarkable year for the 27-year-old. Putellas is the third winner of the prize, following in the footsteps of ...

  Lionel Messi has said he believes Robert Lewandowski should be retrospectively awarded the 2020 Ballon d’Or as he praised the Bayern Munich striker in his acceptance speech for the 2021 honour on Monday. Messi was crowned the 2021 Ballon ...

A Portuguese football team Belenenses, has been hit with 13 cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus after a player recently returned from South Africa. The new variant was found after Belenenses played a Primeira Liga match against Benfica ...

  Paris Saint-Germain superstar Lionel Messi has been awarded the 2021 Ballon d’Or. At a star-studded ceremony in Paris on Monday evening, the 34-year-old Argentine forward was crowned the world’s best player for the seventh time. It is a record ...

  Manchester United have confirmed the appointment of Ralf Rangnick as their interim boss, with the 63-year-old German returning to the dugout following a spell as manager of sports and development at Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow. The Red Devils have ...

Kenyan police have re-arrested Nick Mwendwa, the country’s embattled football chief, only a day after the state dropped a corruption case against him. Football Kenya Federation (FKF) boss Mwendwa is being held at police headquarters outside the capital Nairobi, the ...

  A cross-section of the Super Eagles have reportedly kicked against the decision of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to sack the coach of the team, Gernot Rohr. According to Own Goal Nigeria, the German technician is said to have ...

  Real Madrid forward, Karim Benzema, has been found guilty in a sex tape blackmail case and has been handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and a 75,000 euro fine. He was found guilty of being complicit in the attempted ...

Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, has been ruled out of action for three months following the surgery on his cheekbone and eye socket. Serie A leaders Napoli disclosed this in a statement released on their official website today. With this, ...

  Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly wants Luis Enrique to take over the hot seat at Manchester United following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer on Sunday, November 21. United sacked Solskjaer after an embarrassing 4-1 defeat by promoted Watford Former Real ...

  Manchester United have sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, with the club confirming that the Norwegian coach is no longer at the helm. The manager was dismissed following the Red Devils’ heavy 4-1 defeat at Watford in the Premier League on Saturday. The ...

  Manchester City are set to be without Kevin De Bruyne for their next three games after the Belgian midfielder tested positive for Covid-19. The 30-year-old playmaker has been away on World Cup qualifying duty with his country, helping Roberto ...

The current world record-holder in the men’s 65kg weightlifting category, Paul Kehinde, aka Olumi Agberin, is dead. Kehinde was also a former world number 1 Para Powerlifter, Olympic Gold medallist and Commonwealth Games Champion. Kehinde died on Thursday after a ...

Yup you heard that right. Chelsea Legend, John Terry and Roberto Carlos are in Nigeria. They arrived MMIA yesterday evening and were ushered into town with series of G-Wagons and escorts. Former BBN housemate, Ozo was also there to welcome ...

Kim Kardashian is using her platform to help Afghan female soccer players fly from Pakistan to Britain to leave the Taliban-lead country. With the Taliban taking power once again, female athletes are having their ability to play taken away and ...

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has said there are possiblities that Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Gernot Rohr could be sacked, but he has not been sacked anyway. The name of the Franco-German tactician had prominently featured in both local and ...

The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has sacked Gernot Rohr as the head coach of the Nigerian national football team, Omasports reports.   The German was sacked despite his team progressing to Africa’s 2022 World Cup play-offs.   The Super Eagles, ...

  Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been charged with two further counts of rape, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The 27-year-old Frenchman was initially charged on August 26 with alleged attacks on three different women and now faces ...

  England strolled to 2022 World Cup qualification as they thrashed lowly San Marino 10-0, with Harry Kane’s quest to become the nation’s all-time leading goalscorer taking shape as he hit four in the Group I finale. Gareth Southgate said ...

  Victor Osimhen and Ahmed Musa were on target as Nigeria defeated Liberia 2-0 in their 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifying match on Saturday. Despite coming back from international retirement, Al Shabab striker Odion Ighalo did not make the team ...

  FC Barcelona have confirmed they have reached an agreement to bring Dani Alves back to the club from January onwards. It was recently revealed that Barcelona would be meeting with Alves to discuss a return to the club. He previously ...

A businessman who organised the doomed flight carrying footballer Emiliano Sala has been jailed for 18 months. The Argentine striker and his pilot, David Ibbotson, died after the light aircraft crashed in the English Channel in January 2019. David Henderson, ...

  Kevin De Bruyne has revealed that Manchester City only trained for 10 minutes before their derby win over Manchester United. United suffered a humiliating defeat last weekend, with City dominating in a 2-0 win at Old Trafford. An Eric ...

  Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard has left his post at Rangers to become Aston Villa’s new permanent manager. The former Reds captain has returned to the Premier League after being drafted in to replace Dean Smith at Villa Park Villa ...

  Former Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi’s Russian partner, Olga Diyachenko is a year old today. And he took to his Instagram page to celebrate her on her special day. Sharing a lovely photo of them, the father of two ...