The UEFA Champions League makes for a great football spectacle, and the new 36-team league format has the whole world talking after the competition's opening matchday. 57 goals were scored in 18 matches and across 18 different venues as some of Europe's big hitters lived up to expectations in an entertaining round of matches. Put together by insights from its journalists and researchers, Afrosport has come...
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said the 15-time European Champions are not at their best despite claiming a 3-1 win over German side VfB Stuttgart in their opening match in the new Champions League format on Tuesday. The defending champions needed late goals from Antonio Rudiger and Endrick to get them across the line after German forward Deniz Undav cancelled out Kylian Mbappe’s opener for the...
Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger has tipped Jude Bellingham as the future captain of the England national team. The 20-year-old midfielder joined Los Blancos last summer from Borussia Dortmund and has already established himself as one of the club's top players, jointly leading the La Liga scoring charts with 16 goals and another four in the Champions League. Rudiger also praised Bellingham for his maturity which...
Ivory Coast international Franck Kessie was the hero as Catalan giants Barcelona edged their eternal rivals Real Madrid in the El Clasico at the Spotify Camp Nou on Sunday night. The former AC Milan midfielder, who came on as a 77th-minute substitute for Barca’s other goalscorer Sergio Roberto, finished off a brilliant team move with a sublime strike in second-half stoppage time, helping Barcelona to their...
Any doubts about a World Cup played in the winter and in the middle of the club football season being a spectacle, have surely been put to bed in Qatar. The 2022 World Cup has offered nothing but thrill, shock, excitement and all-around action. African countries at the Mundial started on a poor note with all five representatives in Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon and Ghana failing...
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