Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said his team is solely focused on lifting the Spanish Super Cup trophy ahead of this week’s revamped four-team competition taking place in Saudi Arabia.
“We’re not coming here for a walk,” Zidane said at a news conference Tuesday, on the eve of his team’s semi-final against Copa del Rey holders Valencia in Jeddah.
“It’s the first edition in Saudi Arabia and the competition is a great hope. It’s an important competition and we want to give our all to play a good match tomorrow (Wednesday),” said Zidane.
“It’s a one-off match. It’s not like …
Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen will miss the derby match against Espanyol on Saturday through injury and is unlikely to play in next week’s Spanish Super Cup.
“It is true that he has some problems in the tendon,” said coach Ernesto Valverde in a press conference on Friday. “He will not be available tomorrow and for the Super Cup it will be difficult too. He will return after the Super Cup.”
The club had said on Monday that Ter Stegen is undergoing treatment on a problem with his right knee. Barcelona said the decision to begin treatment was made after …
Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde pushed Dominik Paris into second place after the super-G run of the men’s alpine World Cup combined event in Bormio on Sunday.
World super-G champion Paris had claimed back-to-back downhill wins on Friday and Saturday on his home piste.
But the 30-year-old Italian was pipped by just 0.03sec by Kilde who led the first run down the ‘Stelvio’ in the Italian Alps, with the slalom to come later on Sunday.
“I felt very tired. I made a mistake at (diagonal) Carcentina, now let’s see what the slalom legs will be like,” said Paris.
Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr …
Nigeria finished 2019 as the third ranked team in Africa behind Senegal and Tunisia.
The other top seeded teams are 2019 AFCON champions, Algeria, Morocco, Ghana, Egypt, Cameroon, Mali and DR Congo.
These 10 teams will, thus, head the 10 qualifying groups.
The draw will be staged on January 21, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, from 6pm.
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African champions, the Super Falcons have dropped three places in the latest FIFA Ranking from Zurich, Switzerland.
In the new ranking, Nigeria got 1,614 points as against her previous 1,643 to placed 39th in the world and number one in Africa ahead of Cameroon, South Africa and Ghana.
USA will end 2019 as they began it on top of the FIFA Women’s World Ranking. Brazil also head into 2020 in familiar territory, having made an immediate return to the top 10 – after dropping out in September for the first time in their history.
Having been rewarded for recent friendly …
Technical director of the NFF, Bitrus Bewerang reveals that there are plans to review the template for paying Super Eagles stars’ match bonuses.
“The present NFF started the policy of paying players a percentage of tournament bonuses during the 2018 FIFA World Cup just to motivate them, outside their bonuses and allowances,”Bewerang stated.
“We did not pay any bonus for the 2021 AFCON qualifying matches against Benin Republic and Lesotho because we are in the
The three-time African champions started their qualifying campaign with a 2-1 home win against neighbours Benin Republic at the Akwa Ibom International Stadium, Uyo on Wednesday.
Musa played the last six minutes of the game, replacing Victor Osimhen who scored the opening goal for Nigeria from a spot kick.
Victory against Lesotho who held Sierra Leone to a 1-1 draw in Freetown
Sessegnon put the Squirrels ahead from Jodel Dossou’s cross in the second minute but the Super Eagles rallied back to win the game courtesy of goals from Victor Osimhen and Samuel Kalu.
The Genclerbirligi of Turkey midfielder admits the Super Eagles’ superiority in the encounter and hints that the experience will prepare them for the next game.
“We played against a good
“The content of what the men submitted to the player (Stamatopoulos) was so clear that it should be considered a criminal offer of bribe,” the court said.
Etuhu escaped a jail sentence but
Nigerians may have been surprised to find their darling team, the Super Eagles dropping instead of rising in the latest International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) ranking released on October 24, 2019. Since in 1994 when the Super Eagles rose to fifth in the world, its best ever ranking, they have not gotten anywhere near that rank. In the one released on September 19 (incidentally my birthday), the Super Eagles gained points to be placed 34th in the world. Nigerians believed that there will be an improvement for that of October because in the month under consideration, the Super Eagles
Top policewoman, Cordelia Nwawe is a year older today. DSP Nwawe popularly known as ‘The Tigress’ is a graduate of Law from the University of Benin. She hails from Ubulu-Unor, Aniocha South LGA, Delta State. The hardworking Police Officer was the First Female PRO of the Sokoto and Akwa-Ibom State Police Commands respectively.
She is currently the First Female PRO of the FCID Alagbon Police Command, where she currently serves.
DSP Cordelia has bagged several awards from the Media and other revered organizations, the most prestigious being the “Akwa Ibom Most Trending Person of the Year”.
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Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr will have to do without Francis Uzoho, one of his most improved players for the Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against the Benin Republic following the confirmation that he has been ruled out for six months, reports soccernet.com.
The AC Omonia goalkeeper picked up the injury in Super Eagles draw against Brazil last Sunday at the Singapore National Stadium on Sunday.
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The 20-year-old Uzoho was trying to deal with a cross only for him to land awkwardly, which has now resulted in knee ligament damage. …
