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AFCON 2025 qualifiers: Is the Super Eagles’ wealth of attacking talent turning into a curse and not a blessing?

Augustine Eguavoen will once again be in the dugout as interim head coach when the Super Eagles take on Libya in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers on October 11 and 15. The former Nigeria international did not do too badly in his fourth stint in the dugout with a 3-0 win over Benin and a goalless draw against Rwanda last month. The games against Libya are...

Nigeria’s Muritala outshines compatriot Olatunji as Sigma Olomouc stuns Sparta Prague

Nigeria’s Muritala outshines compatriot Olatunji as Sigma Olomouc stuns Sparta Prague

Yunusa Muritala edged fellow countryman Victor Olatunji in the battle of Nigerians when defending champions Sparta Prague and Sigma Olomouc met in the Czech First League, the Chance Liga, on Friday. Muritala, 24, scored one goal, his first in the division, and provided another as 10-man Sigma stunned hosts Sparta 3-2 inside a rainy epet ARENA to win the matchday 10 opener. Sigma vyloupila Letnou! 😱🤯...

Afrosport UCL Team of the Week: Kane, Olatunji & the nine others make starting XI

Afrosport UCL Team of the Week: Kane, Olatunji & the nine others make starting XI

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...

‘I’m a chosen, who are you?’ – Nigeria’s Victor Olatunji joins viral social media trend

‘I’m a chosen, who are you?’ – Nigeria’s Victor Olatunji joins viral social media trend

Nigerian forward Victor Olatunji has jumped on the viral train going on in the country following his history-making performance in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday. The 25-year-old starred for Sparta Prague in their 3-0 throbbing of Austrian side RB Salzburg at the epet ARENA, scoring one goal and providing another in the Czech’s club long-awaited return to Europe's premier competition. Olatunji, who scored Sparta's second...

UCL: Man City held by Inter Milan; Bynoe-Gittens, Guirassy on target in Dortmund win

UCL: Man City held by Inter Milan; Bynoe-Gittens, Guirassy on target in Dortmund win

The UEFA Champions League continued with another round of matches in its new format on Wednesday and unlike the opening day, where there were goals scored in all the matches, two games ended goalless this time around. In a battle between two domestic champions, Manchester City and Inter Milan, at the Etihad Stadium, neither team found the back of the net in a rematch of the...