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After 20 years, one club, 644 goals, the most goals scored for one club, Budweiser has personalised bottles for the 160 goalkeepers Messi scored against. Chelsea’s Kepa Arrizabalaga, Atletico Madrid’s Jan Oblak and Juventus’ Gianluigi Buffon are some of the ...

FIFA has cancelled the U-17 and U-20 World Cups that were to hold in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The U-17 World Cup was scheduled to take place in Peru and the U-20 World Cup in Indonesia. FIFA, in ...

  Thomas Tuchel has been sacked by Paris Saint-Germain just hours after their comprehensive win over Strasbourg, The 47-year-old’s two-and-a-half-year reign at Parc des Princes is over, with the French champions taking the decision to make a change in the dugout following a ...

Manchester United will host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. Championship side Brentford will face a trip to fellow Londoners Tottenham Hotspur in the other semi-final as the race to lift the first major silverware of the ...

  Edinson Cavani fired Manchester United into the semi-finals of the EFL Cup as his superb late goal inspired a 2-0 win over Everton Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side have been imperious on the road this season and headed to Goodison Park having won ...

Manchester City booked an EFL Cup semi-final spot and piled more pressure on Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta with a resounding 4-1 win at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday. Arteta, who was Pep Guardiola’s assistant at City before taking charge of the Gunners a year ago, ...

Manchester United boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has reminded French star, Paul Pogba, that no one is bigger than the club. This is as the war of words between the manager and Pogba’s agent Mino Raiola rumbles on. Solskjaer, who yesterday ...

  Tottenham’s Premier League title hopes suffered a second significant dent in as many games as they fell to a 2-0 home defeat to Leicester City. Looking to bounce back from the disappointment of conceding late in a 2-1 defeat to leaders Liverpool in midweek, ...

  Lionel Messi scored his 643rd goal for Barcelona on Saturday to equal Pele’s record of goals for a single club as the Spanish giants were held 2-2 by Valencia. Messi headed in from Jordi Alba’s cross after his first ...

Liverpool moved six points clear at the Premier League summit after a scintillating display against Crystal Palace on Saturday. Robert Firmino and Mohamed Salah scored twice as Liverpool ended a five-game winless run away from home in the Premier League with an emphatic 7-0 win ...

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Lorenzo Taliaferro has passed away at the age of 28. According to local news station WBFF-TV Fox45, a family member of Talafierro said he died of a heart attack on Wednesday, Dec. 16. He was ...

  Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski was named The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2020 on Thursday, beating off competition from last year’s winner Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Lewandowski, who won the German league and cup double as well as ...

The Football Association(FA) has charged Manchester United striker, Edinson Cavani, for a now-deleted Instagram post. Cavani put up the post, after scoring twice as a substitute in United’s 3-2 win over Southampton on November 29. The 33-year-old responded to a ...

Club Olimpia forward Jerry Bengtson opts to wear a mask during matches to protect his family. The prolific Honduras international striker has scored 47 goals in 82 outings for his current side since joining from Deportivo Saprissa, and his choice ...

  Roberto Firmino scored a late header to put Liverpool top of the Premier League table as Tottenham were beaten 2-1 at Anfield. Son Heung-min’s contentious first-half equaliser looked to have kept Spurs at the summit on goal difference after Mohamed Salah’s 14th goal of the season ...

Emmanuel Ibah, a member of the Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has died of Covid-19 complications.   The NFF announced his death in a statement. It said Ibah’s family confirmed his death. Ibah, who also was Chairman of ...

  West Brom have sacked head coach Slaven Bilic just one day after their impressive draw against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium. The Baggies pulled off one of the surprise results of the season by earning a 1-1 draw away at City on Tuesday ...

  Jose Mourinho  feels he wasn’t given enough time to implement his project during his time at Old Trafford. Mourinho, who recently celebrated one year at the helm of Spurs after he replaced Mauricio Pochettino last season, has Tottenham flying high ...

  The National Sports Festival (NSF) scheduled to hold in Edo state has been postponed again from January to February 14 – 28, 2021.   Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Gabriel Aduda said the postponement was approved ...

After the creation of the OM School label in Tunis and Algiers in 2019, Olympique de Marseille will open, at the end of January 2021, its network of soccer schools for young Nigerians and more precisely at the Sports Institute ...

  Pedro Neto was Wolves’ hero in second-half stoppage time as the Portugal international sealed a 2-1 comeback win over Chelsea at Molineux on Tuesday. Frank Lampard’s men went into the match the possibility of going top temporarily, but Wolves showed admirable character to come from behind ...

Barcelona will face Paris St. Germain (PSG) and former striker Neymar while title holders Bayern Munich are up against Italy’s Lazio in the last 16 of the Champions League after UEFA’s draw was held on Monday.   The News Agency ...

  Arsenal had Granit Xhaka sent off as they slipped to an insipid 1-0 defeat against Burnley at Emirates Stadium – adding to Mikel Arteta’s woes. The Gunners forced Nick Pope into a number of saves, but their hopes of sealing a first ...

  Jeffrey Schlupp’s late strike salvaged a deserved 1-1 derby draw for Crystal Palace and prevented Tottenham from going three points clear at the top of the Premier League. Vicente Guaita’s howler gifted Harry Kane a 15th goal of the season midway through the ...

  Borussia Dortmund have sacked head coach Lucien Favre following Saturday’s 5-1 home defeat to newly-promoted Stuttgart. Defeat leaves Dortmund fifth in the Bundesliga, five points off the pace of leaders Bayern Munich, whose 24 points are matched by RB Leipzig. By contrast, Dortmund have earned ...