The draw for this season’s Champions League quarter-final has been confirmed on Friday. The blues of Chelsea will take on 11-time winners Real Madrid for a place in the last four. Manchester City face Atletico Madrid, who dumped Manchester United out of the competition. Villarreal have been drawn against Bayern Munich, while Liverpool play Benfica. […]
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English football team, Chelsea’s Bank accounts have been frozen, after the UK government sanctioned owner Roman Abramovich, the UK Times reports. The Blues have been given a special licence to continue with football related activities, but a proposed sale of the club has been put on hold. The special license expires on May 31 2022, […]
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A former Nigerian midfielder, Justice Christopher has died at the age of 40. OmaSports reports he passed away Wednesday morning in his hotel in Jos, Plateau State. Christopher made his debut for the Super Eagles in 2001 and went on to accumulate 11 appearances. He was part of the Nigerian squad that went to the […]
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Roman Abramovich has confirmed he would be selling Chelsea Football Club. Earlier this week, Labour MP Chris Bryant used Parliamentary Privilege to also reveal Abramovich is selling his UK home and another flat. Bryant had told the House of Commons that the 55-year-old is “terrified of being sanctioned”. Abramovich now wants to sell the Stamford […]
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Owner of English football team, Chelsea, Roman Abramovich, has handed the club over to a charitable organisation. Abramovich made this disclosure in a statement on Saturday. This followed the decision of Russian President, Vladimir Putin ,to go to war with neighbouring Ukraine. European Union, EU, are seizing assets belonging to Russians and the Russian government […]
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The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) on Friday announced the shift of the 2022 Champions League finals from Russia. The union moved the Champions League final from Russia to France. UEFA took the decision at Friday’s emergency meeting. It said the Champions League final which was scheduled for Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg on […]
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Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, has suspended Kenya and Zimbabwe for government interference, according to Gianni Infantino, the president of the world football governing body. Infantino made this known at a press conference on Thursday. Kenya’s Ministry of Sports in November 2021, suspended the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) and appointed a caretaker committee to […]
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Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been slammed with a ban for 10 years for multiple breaches of anti-doping rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday. Okagbare, who has an Olympic silver medal in long jump from the 2008 Beijing Games, was provisionally suspended before the 100 metres semi-finals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics […]
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Egypt beat tournament hosts Cameroon 3-1 on penalties after a goalless 120 minutes to set up an Africa Cup of Nations final showdown against Senegal. Cameroon had dominated the first half – Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui hitting the post in the pick of the chances – but let the game run away from them as Egypt took […]
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Arsenal has agreed to let Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang join Barcelona on free transfer, 18 months from end of his £350,000-a-week contract. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signed for Barcelona on a free transfer from Arsenal on Monday. Arsenal became willing to allow the 32-year-old to leave after stripping him of the captaincy in December following a disciplinary issue. Recall that the […]
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