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Manchester City were perfectly prepared with the right mix of calmness and tension for their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, manager Pep Guardiola said on Wednesday. The English champions dismantled the holders 4-0 with a ruthless display to secure a 5-1 aggregate win. The result meant Manchester City secured...

FC Barcelona claimed their 27th LaLiga title on Sunday after two first-half goals from Robert Lewandowski spurred them to a 4-2 thrashing of city rivals Espanyol. Barca moved to 85 points from 34 matches and extended their lead to an unassailable 14 points over second-placed Real Madrid. They were the...

City Football Club of Abuja on Sunday defeated visiting Green Berets FC of Zaria 1-0 in a 2022/2023 Nigeria National League (NNL) Northern Conference Group A2 Match Day 8 fixture. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match played at the Area 3 pitch saw City FC controlling...

Juventus grabbed a comfortable 2-0 win against second-bottom Cremonese in Serie A on Sunday, but the result was soured by another injury to midfielder Paul Pogba. Pogba, who returned to Juventus last summer, has struggled with injury since. He began the game well as he started a match for the...

Manchester City striker, Erling Haaland, 22, has been voted the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year. Haaland has scored up to 51 goals and won 72 per cent of the FWA vote, which gave him the victory since the Premier League competition began, Daily Mail reported on Friday. Bukayo...

By Mathew Bala Nigerian Football Academy based in Delta State, Jude Gbaboyor Academy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with two Turkish clubs at a ceremony in Lagos. The signing ceremony, which was held on Thursday at Stop Over Hotel, Airport Road Ikeja facilitated by a UK-based Nigerian, Mr...

Dolores Aveiro, mother of football star Cristiano Ronaldo, has refuted claims that her son and longtime girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, is having problems in their relationship. According to reports in Spanish and Portuguese media last month, the striker was “fed up” with the Spanish model and influencer and they were said...

Nigeria’s first Olympic Gold medalist, Chioma Ajunwa, was on Thursday decorated as a Deputy Commissioner of Police. The officer was decorated by her new boss, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Frank Mba. Ajunwa made history as the first Nigerian to win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and the...

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, in an interview with CNN Sports after winning the Laureaus World Sportsman of the Year award said he never had the idea of being considered in the top 10. While answering questions in the interview, Messi said, “The truth is that it is an honour today...

A throwback video re-emerged on Wednesday, where Nigerian striker, Victor Osimhen, stated that playing for Chelsea would be the greatest opportunity ever. The interview was conducted on TVC in 2016 after Osimhen became the all-time leading goal-scorer during the FIFA U-17 World Cup. When asked who his role model was,...