Luciano Spalletti has confirmed that he will stay on as Italy head coach after the Azzurri were knocked out of the Euro 2024 championship by Switzerland. The round of 16 defeat cast a doubt over the former Napoli manager's future in leading the Azzurri who were defending champions heading into Germany. All that has now been put to bed as he aims to rejuvenate the squad....
Napoli midfielder Michael Folorunsho, currently on loan at Hellas Verona, has been named to the Italian national team's 30-man provisional squad list released on Thursday for this summer’s European Championship. The 26-year-old, born in Italy to Nigerian parents, has scored five goals and provided one assist in 35 Serie A matches this season, including finding the back of the net against Juventus and Roma. Folorunsho, currently...
Bayern Munich forward Harry Kane was at the double, while Manchester United’s talisman Marcus Rashford scored one as England came from behind to record a 3-1 win over Italy in a rematch of the EUR0 2020 final at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday night. The Three Lions improved their unbeaten run at Wembley to 19 matches as they booked a place in next year’s European Championships in...
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...
Following the promise of allocating houses to the triumphant 1994 Super Eagles squad, the Federal Government of Nigeria presented a three-bedroom flat each to former Super Eagles stars Ike Shorunmu, Mutiu Adepoju, and Finidi George, as well as former team Doctor Akin Amao, in Oyo state. However, reports affirmed that the keys to the apartments along the Ibadan-Oyo Road were later retrieved from the former internationals...
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