Showing posts with label SPORT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPORT. Show all posts
Friday, 26 August 2016
TRANSFER: Arsenal agree deals for Lucas Perez, Mustafi
Arsenal have agreed deals to sign Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna and Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia.
Manager Arsene Wenger, has been busy in the summer transfer market, looking for a central defender and a forward. The Frenchman has finally sealed deals for two of La Liga’s top performers last season.
Injured Iheanacho to be available for Tanzania match
Manchester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho, will be available for next week’s 2017 AFCON qualifier against Tanzania, after a scan on Thursday came back with positive results.
Iheanacho was stretchered off during their UEFA Champions League play-off against Steaua Bucuresti on Wednesday night.
Photos from UEFA's champions league draw & award ceremony.....
Last night football icons such as Thierry Henry, Roberto Carlos, Clarence Seedorf, Cristiano Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann, Luis Figo, Gareth Bale etc gathered in Nyon, Switzerland to watch UEFA's champions league draw and also witness Cristiano Ronaldo and Ada Hegerberg win UEFA best players in Europe for men and women's category respectively.
UEFA.com has released more photos from the star studded event.
See them below.............
UEFA Champions league draw in full check out......
Leicester vs FC Porto
Man City Vs Barca
PSG vs Arsenal
UEFA Champions league draw in full
It's going to be another thrilling champions league season, as the whole world waits to see how well EPL champions Leicester City do in the champions league after defying the odds in their first major trophy in history.
Olympic Swimmer Ryan Lochte charge with false crime report by Brazilian authorities
In the wake of Rio 'robbery' fiasco, Brazilian authorities have now charged 12-time Olympic medalist US swimming star Ryan Lochte, 32, with making a false statement. Police investigation revealed that Lochte and 3 other US swimmers James Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger lied about being robbed at gunpoint when they were returning by taxi from a club in Rio.
Thursday, 25 August 2016
Jose Mourinho never gave me a chance - Victor Moses
Super Eagles winger Victor Moses believes his career can go upwards now that Jose Mourinho is no longer in Chelsea and he has a new coach Antonio Conte.
Moses was signed by Roberto Di Matteo for £9m in 2009 and featured regularly under Di Mattheo and Rafa Benitez but Mourinho upon joining the club lost interest in his services and farmed him out on loan.
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Nigeria's U23 Olympic team arrive back in Nigeria
Twelve players who represented Nigeria in the 2016 Rio Olympics and 7 officials who accompanied them, including coach Samson Siasia, have arrived back in Nigeria while others returned to their various bases. The Dream Team won the only medal (Bronze) for Nigeria at the Olympics following their 3-2 victory over Honduras in the third-placed match.
See photos...............
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
BREAKING: Ex-FIFA boss dies at 100
Former FIFA President Joao Havelange has died at the age of 100, BBC Sport reports.
The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football’s governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998.
He resigned as FIFA’s honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection.
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Rio 2016: 200m Semis: Okagbare battles Schippers, Thompson
Reigning double Commonwealth Games sprint queen Blessing Okagbare faces a tough challenge and will need to run faster than her 22.23 seconds personal best to stand a chance of making the 200m final when the semi-final is run at 2am on Wednesday August 17, 2016. The seven-time Nigerian 100m queen came in first (22.71s) in her first round heat on Monday but faces another heartbreak in the semi-final after she was drawn in the same heat as reigning world champion Dafne Schippers of Holland and Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson who came second behind Schippers in Beijing at the IAAF Worlds last year and only early Sunday morning ran 10.71 seconds to win the 100m gold at the on-going Olympic in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Monday, 15 August 2016
Beginning of English Premier League
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Position
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Club |
Played
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Won
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Drawn
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Lost
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GF | GA | GD |
Points
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| 1 | Manchester United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 3 | |
| 2 | Liverpool | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 3 | |
| 3 | Hull City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Manchester City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
| 5 | Swansea City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3 |
SPORT: Yannick Bolasie joins Everton from Crystal Palace on five-year contract
Everton have confirmed the signing of Yannick Bolasie from Crystal Palace on a five-year contract.
The winger has moved for an undisclosed fee, although Sky sources understand it could rise to as much as £28m.
While Everton have not announced it as a club record transfer, that total would match the amount paid to Chelsea for Romelu Lukaku in 2014 if it was paid in full.
Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Real Madrid beat Sevilla 3-2 in the European Supercup final
Real Madrid beat Sevilla 3-2 in the European Supercup final in rainy Trondheim on Tuesday thanks to a brilliant individual last minute of extra-time clincher from Dani Carvajal.
Sevilla had been on the verge of victory leading 2-1 deep into added time, before Sergio Ramos equalised in the 93rd minute with the last kick of normal time, leaving the losers to taste a double dose of pain when Carvajal grabbed the late, late winner.
Marco Asensio had given Madrid the lead with a brilliant strike before Franco Vazquez equalised shortly before half-time.
SPORT: Nigerians create records at Rio Olympics
Rio de Janeiro – At least three of the many Nigerian athletes in the ongoing Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games created records of sorts that will be cherished in a longtime to come.
The trio with records are two table tennis stars, Segun Toriola and Aruna Quadri as well as Rower, Chierika Ukogu .
Monday, 13 June 2016
Biography/Profile/History Of the Late Former Eagles Coach Stephen Okechukwu Keshi
Stephen Okechukwu Keshi (23 January 1962 – 8 June 2016) was a Nigerian football defender. He was also a football manager of the Nigeria national team. He was one of only two people, along with Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.
‘It would be hypocritical for NFF to immortalise Keshi, Amodu’
…as sports veterans pour glowing tributes on late football icons
By Ikenna Asomba
Sports veterans on Sunday, continued to pour torrent of tributes on the duo of late ex-Eagles Coaches, Stephen Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu, even as they expressed mixed feelings over the call in various quarters to immortalise them.
Keshi: Burial plans out
After a torrid week in
the history of Nigerian football during which two greats, Stephen
Okechukwu Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu passed on, burial plans for Keshi is
expected to commence this week with meetings to be held with various
strata of government. Amodu was buried on Saturday according to Muslim
rites.
Indications have already emerged that Keshi will be buried in his
ancestral home of Illah, in Delta state, with the Federal Government,
Edo, Delta and Cross River state governments already indicating interest
to be part of the burial ceremony. More states are expected to indicate
interests.
Family sources said Abuja, the Federal Capital will be the first port of
call, with players of the national team expected to be led by Super
Eagles Skipper John Mikel Obi to play a part in the burial ceremony.
His children are also expected to start arriving from the United States
later this week as arrangements peak for his burial.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/keshi-burial-plans/
After a torrid week in
the history of Nigerian football during which two greats, Stephen
Okechukwu Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu passed on, burial plans for Keshi is
expected to commence this week with meetings to be held with various
strata of government. Amodu was buried on Saturday according to Muslim
rites.
Indications have already emerged that Keshi will be buried in his
ancestral home of Illah, in Delta state, with the Federal Government,
Edo, Delta and Cross River state governments already indicating interest
to be part of the burial ceremony. More states are expected to indicate
interests.
Family sources said Abuja, the Federal Capital will be the first port of
call, with players of the national team expected to be led by Super
Eagles Skipper John Mikel Obi to play a part in the burial ceremony.
His children are also expected to start arriving from the United States
later this week as arrangements peak for his burial.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/keshi-burial-plans/ |
Late Stephen KeshiAfter a torrid week in the history of Nigerian football during which two greats, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi and Shuaibu Amodu passed on, burial plans for Keshi is expected to commence this week with meetings to be held with various strata of government. |
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