Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi has been named the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, while sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bagged the top women’s honour. At the awards ceremony on Monday, Messi also received an award on behalf of the Argentina men’s football team, who were named World Team of...
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Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, says his players must on Tuesday avoid falling into the trap of trying to avenge last year’s UEFA Champions League semi-final defeat to Real Madrid. Both teams will meet on Tuesday at the same stage of the tournament, with Manchester City away in the first...
Wikki Tourists Football Club of Bauchi on Sunday thrashed visiting Abia Warriors Football club of Aba 4-0 in the 2022/2023 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Match day 17 fixtures. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match which was played at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi...
Victor Osimhen saw one penalty kick saved before scoring another as Napoli marked their Scudetto celebrations with a 1-0 win against Fiorentina amid a carnival atmosphere. Having ended a 33-year wait to win the Serie A on Thursday, Luciano Spalletti’s men were greeted by a jubilant crowd at the...
Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, said he played a video of his side’s bitter defeat at Newcastle United a year ago before their vital 2-0 Premier League win at St James’s Park on Sunday. The flimsy defeat on Tyneside last May wrecked Arsenal’s chances of finishing in the top four...
A howler by Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea gifted West Ham United three vital points in their battle against relegation as the hosts secured a 1-0 win on Sunday. Manchester United are fourth on 63 points after 34 games, one ahead of Liverpool and with a game in...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna on Saturday lost in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Africa Cup final match to arch rival and defending champion Omar Assar of Egypt. The game played at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi saw the top African player losing 1-4 (8-11 13-15 7-11 11-9...
Belarusian second seed Aryna Sabalenka beat Iga Swiatek 6-3 3-6 6-3 to win the Madrid Open on Saturday. The win helped to avenge her defeat by the Polish world number one in last month’s Stuttgart final. Sabalenka produced a great performance to beat Swiatek for the first time on...
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp hailed Mohamed Salah after the Egyptian striker’s winner against Brentford on Saturday set a number of milestones. The win kept the Reds in the hunt for UEFA Champions League football next season. Salah struck from close range in the 13th minute to score for the...
Chelsea’s interim manager Frank Lampard on Saturday expressed his happiness to see his side finally playing like a team. The former English Premier League (EPL) champions snapped a nine-match winless run in all competitions with a 3-1 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday. Chelsea have looked a fractured outfit after...
A magnanimous gesture by Manchester United’s goal-machine Erling Haaland left Pep Guardiola fuming on Saturday. This was after the Norwegian striker ignored his manager’s instructions to take a penalty kick and handed the ball to team mate Ilkay Gundogan. The German midfielder had scored a first-half brace to put...
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz celebrated his 20th birthday by storming into the Madrid Open final with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Borna Coric on Friday to stay on track for his fourth title of the season. In Sunday’s title clash, the top-seeded Spaniard will face off against qualifier Aslan...
Chika Obi, a sports analyst, has expressed optimistic that Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets will win their 3rd match against South Africa at the ongoing 2023 African Under-17 Cup of Nation’s on Saturday. Obi, who expressed his optimistic while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Ota, said...
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna is through to the semi-finals of the ongoing International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Africa Cup in Nairobi, Kenya. Aruna will face Mohamed El-Beiali of Egypt at the Moi International Sports Centre on Saturday for a place in the finals of the event. He had to see...
Football fans have called on Nigeria international,Victor Osimhen to replicate club form for the national team as Napoli bag Serie A title on Thursday night. Some fans who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday celebrated Osimhen and Napoli for the great feat. Mr...
Napoli coach Luciano Spalletti broke down in tears after his side claimed their long-awaited third Serie A title with a 1-1 draw against Udinese on Thursday. Spalletti explained that it is the club’s fans who deserve this joy the most after 33 years of waiting. “Seeing the Partenopei smiling...
Napoli won their third Serie A title, and their first in 33 years, on Thursday after a 1-1 draw at Udinese gave the Naples side an unassailable lead in the standings. Napoli’s triumph ended the city’s long wait for the Scudetto since Argentine great Diego Maradona led them to...
Organisers of the inaugural African Heroes Penalty Cup have announced the participation of some of Africa’s finest football stars in the tournament scheduled to hold in Lagos later in the year. The organisers of the event, ABAJ Multilinks, at a press briefing on Wednesday in Lagos, said the competition...
A former Super Eagles Captain, Austin Jay Jay Okocha, on Thursday urged the Super Eagles to be more consistent and stable in their quest to maintain the team’s status as Africa’s number one. The mercurial midfielder gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets on Wednesday in Constantine lost 0-1 for Morocco to earn all three points and sail into the quarter-finals of the Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations. The Golden Eaglets wasted a basketful of opportunities in a match they dominated for large periods in the Algerian city. An...