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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has donated 1m euros (£920,000) to fight the coronavirus outbreak in Spain. Guardiola, who is at his home in Barcelona, has been working with his lawyers over the past few days to work out the ...

Manchester United are ready to sign Odion Ighalo for up to £15million this summer after it emerged the Nigerian striker’s loan runs out on May 31. Sportsmail can reveal Ighalo’s temporary move from Shanghai Shenhua is set to end a ...

Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain controversially broke quarantine rules in Italy to be with his cancer-stricken mother, his brother has revealed. The former Chelsea forward, 32, fled the coronavirus-hit country – where almost 5,000 people have died – seven days into ...

Samuel Eto’o posted an emotional birthday message to Ronaldinho as the Brazilian football legend spent his 40th birthday in a Paraguayan jail. Together at Barcelona, Samuel Eto’o and Ronaldinho won two Champions League titles, four La Liga, one Copa del ...

  Football players Dayo Ojo and Benjamin Iluyomade have been kidnapped by gunmen, according to a press statement from Nigeria Professional Football League outfit, Enyimba. The incident took place on Sunday along the Benin-Owo expressway as the trio of Ojo, Iluyomade and Emmanuel ...

Ifeanyi George, Enugu Rangers International striker, has died in an accident on his way to Lagos from Enugu on Sunday. It was gathered was with two other teammates when their car ran under a trailer along Onitsha-Agbor-Benin road. Reacting to ...

Former AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini revealed that he and his son have been infected with coronavirus (COVID- Milan said Maldini, now the technical director at Milan, and his 18-year-old son Daniel, a youth team player, were also battling the ...

Juventus striker, Paulo Dybala, and his girlfriend, Oriana Sabatin, have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). He made this known via his Twitter handle on Saturday. He tweeted, “Hi everyone, I just wanted to inform you that we have received the ...

  Former Arsenal and Barcelona star Alex Song, Ivory Coast duo Xavier Kouassi and Seydou Kouassi, and Senegal’s Birama Ndoye have been sacked by FC Sion for refusing to take a pay cut due to the coronavirus outbreak. With several competitions and league halted due to the spread ...

Former Cardiff City and Aston Villa midfielder Peter Whittingham has died at the age of 35. Whittingham had been fighting for his life in Cardiff’s Heath Hospital, before passing away on Thursday morning. Police confirmed he had suffered a fall ...

Liverpool and Senegal striker Sadio Mane has donated a whooping £41,000 to a health organization fighting the spread of coronavirus in Senegal as the West African nation comes to grips with the global pandemic. Senegal has 27 confirmed cases of ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has denied claims that Liverpool will be crowned champions if the league is cancelled due to coronavirus. Jurgen Klopp’s side are just two wins away from securing their first Premier League title in 30 years. But ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has launched a fundraiser to help fight coronavirus and has called on fellow footballers to help “kick this virus away”. The AC Milan striker plays in Italy, the country so far worst affected by the pandemic other than ...

  Cardiff City legend Peter Whittingham is fighting for his life in hospital. South Wales Police confirmed the former Bluebirds midfielder, 35, is alive after rumours of his death spread on social media. Police were unable to give further details, ...

Euro 2020 has been postponed by one year until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. European football’s governing body made the decision during an emergency video conference involving major stakeholders on Tuesday. The tournament, due to take place from 12 ...

Valencia have confirmed that 35% of its players & staff tested positive for coronavirus. The Spanish club announced last weekend that players Mangala, Garay and Gaya and two other staff were infected with the coronavirus. But things are getting worse. ...

Odion Ighalo will happily take a £6m hit to make his Old Trafford move a permanent one, it has been reported. Ighalo joined Manchester United in January on loan as a stopgap striker for the rest of the season. But ...

Francisco Garcia, a 21-year-old youth football coach in Malaga, Spain , has died few days after catching coronavirus. News reports described him as the youngest victim to die in the entire world. Francisco was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Friday, along ...

The London marathon was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement Friday. The race was due to take place April 26 and will now be held Oct. 4. The event was expected to draw 43,000 participants. “The ...

Ronaldinho took part in a behind-bars football match at his Paraguayan prison on Friday and wiped the floor with the other inmates, scoring five goals and assisting six in an 11-2 victory. The 39-year-old, who played for Barcelona, AC Milan ...

  The pilot of the plane crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala, David Ibbotson, did not have the required licences or permissions to fly commercially. Both men died when the Piper Malibu light aircraft went down on January 21, 2019, as Sala ...

  Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has given an update on his health status, after testing positive to conoravirus, which has been declared a pandemic by the WHO. The Spanish gaffer who joined Arsenal from Manchester City was announced to have tested ...

Court of Arbitration for Sports, CAS, has postponed the hearing of former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia’s appeal until further notice. Hearing was scheduled for March 19 but due to the Coronavirus outbreak, it has been postponed. CAS wrote Siasia ...

Chelsea star Callum Hudson-Odoi who earlier tested for coronavirus and was isolated has recovered. He made this known in a video posted on his instagram page this morning. The entire Blues first-team, coaches and support staff have since entered isolation, ...

  Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus. The Spaniard is the first high-profile sporting individual to test positive, after the club placed several players into self-isolation. It comes after Evangelos Marinakis, the Olympiakos and Nottingham Forest owner, ...