Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal combined as Spain defeated England 2-1 to lift the Euro 2024 championship in Berlin on Sunday night. La Roja were making it to their first final since 2012 when they defeated Italy while the Three Lions were in back-to-back finals after losing to the Azzurri on penalties at Wembley three years ago. After a goalless first half at the Olympiastadion, Luis...
Nigerian champions, Rangers International have been drawn against Comorian league winners, US Zilimadjou in the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League. Rangers will travel to Comoros for the first leg between August 16-18 before playing host to US Zilimadjou the following week in Nigeria. The winner of the encounter will face either Angola’s GDSE or St. Louis of Mauritius in the next round. Nigeria’s second...
Former Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Rulani Mokwena has taken over as Wydad Casablanca manager on a two-year contract. Mokwena part ways with Sundowns at the end of the last season after lifting South Africa’s Premier Soccer League for second successive season. The 37-year-old tactician also won the inaugural African Football League with Mamelodi Sundowns in 2023 but the club revealed that he did meet their objectives...
Kylian Mbappe has labelled France's Euro 2024 semi-final exit as "a failure". Les Bleus battled Spain in Munich on Tuesday night and went ahead through Randal Kolo Muani early in the first half. They could however not hold on as La Roja fought their way back to take the lead before the end of the first half which they held on till the conclusion of the...
Lamine Yamal has revealed that his mother had a dream he would score at the Euro 2024 championship, which came to pass in Spain's 2-1 semi-final victory over France on Tuesday. The 16-year-old found the back of the net in La Roja colours for the very first time with a long range curler that gave goalkeeper Mike Maignan no chance of stopping. Yamal became the youngest...
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