Group B battle at the 2022 African Nations Championship comprises two West African countries and one country each from Central and Eastern Africa. West African giants Senegal and Ivory Coast will battle it out against the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, who both have the joint-most appearances at the biennial tournament with six each. All the matches in Group B will be played at the...
Nigeria Professional Football League club Akwa United have promoted two players from their youth set-up to the first-team ahead of the commencement of the 2022–23 season. Left-back and the club's Under-15 captain Nsikan Alloyisus, alongside goalkeeper Covenant Bassey, who participated in the 2021 NPFL/La Liga Promise tournament, were both invited to the National U-15 camp. Alloyisus recently completed his secondary school education at the Government Technical...
Italian football legend Gianluca Vialli has passed on following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The 58-year-old died at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London after battling the disease for a second time. Vialli had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for months after initially overcoming the illness in 2018. In April 2020, he revealed that he had been given the all-clear for the disease. However, in...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has sent out a stern warning to match commissioners and referees ahead of the new Nigeria Professional Football League season, stating that "it would no longer be business as usual". He reiterated the federation's resolve to immediately eject and sanction officials who fail to meet the high standards newly put in place. Mr. Gusau made...
Defending champions Bayelsa Queens cruised to a 4-0 win over Osun Babes in their Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) clash at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenegoa on Wednesday. Falconets striker Flourish Sabastine put the Queens ahead in the fourth minute with her second goal of the season while Etim Edidiong opened her goal account for the season, doubling the lead for the five-time champions. Zambian...
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