*Feeders Star promoted By Okhide Em’ya David Bendel insurance Football Club players and officials, on Monday morning resumed work as they trained at the Crescent Club Football Field at Iriri-Ogba in Benin City. The Benin ‘Arsenal’ proceeded on Christmas holiday on December 23, 2021 and has returned to the field to intensify preparations for on-coming Nigeria’s second tier football season …
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Kenya is seeking the postponement of this month’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Group G leaders Comoros, due to an international travel ban placed on athletes as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The Kenyan sports ministry on Tuesday issued a one-month travel suspension for Kenyan athletes to international competitions following the global outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. …
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Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world’s most recognisable sportswomen, on Wednesday announced her retirement at the age of 32. “Tennis — I’m saying goodbye,” Sharapova said in an article for Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. “After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I’m ready to scale another mountain — to compete on a different type …
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The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed former Super Eagles’ defender and captain Joseph Yobo as assistant coach of the team. He replaces Imama Amapakabo in three-time African champions’ technical crew. This was contained in a press statement by the spokesperson for the NFF, Ademola Olajire, on Wednesday. Yobo, who played for the Nigeria U20 – Flying Eagles – during the …
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The Super Eagles of Nigeria started their campaign at the Africa Cup of Nations on a winning note as they pipped debutants Burundi 1-0 on Saturday. While many expected a shelling of Burundi, it was the solitary strike from Odion Ighalo that saved the day for the Super Eagles. Gernot Rohr’s side are 89 places above Burundi in FIFA’s world …
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With the women’s World Cup entering the knockout rounds, football’s international authorities have decided not to apply a new rule that could have led to a succession of red cards for goalkeepers in penalty shootouts. Three times in France, goalkeepers have been shown yellow cards for coming off their lines under a heavily-criticised new rule that they must have at …
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Gianni Infantino was re-elected Wednesday by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the Congress of world football’s governing body in Paris. The 49-year-old, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 after the departure of the disgraced Sepp Blatter, stood unopposed for a new four-year term which will run until 2023. Earlier, Infantino had insisted that FIFA …
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Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has charged athletes representing the state in the ongoing National Sports Festival, to restore the sporting glory for which the state was known, assuring that his administration has the capacity to host the 2020 edition of the festival. Obaseki, who gave the charge during the opening ceremony of the 19th National Sports Festival, holding …
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Nigerian young sprinter Rosemary Chukwuma, said on Saturday that her aim was to win more medals for the country and surpass Blessing Okagbare’s record. She told newsmen at the ongoing Africa Senior Athletics Championships in Asaba that the aim of every athlete was to exceed past records. Chukwuma was part of the country’s 4×100 women’s team that won gold at …
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