Category: Sport

Manchester United were outclassed as Spanish and European champions Real Madrid retained the Uefa Super Cup with victory in a sweltering Skopje. Madrid dominated from the start and led when Casemiro – who earlier hit the bar – slid in a half volley. They doubled their lead when Isco calmly slotted in from eight yards after a neat one-two with Gareth Bale, who started ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo. New £75m striker Romelu Lukaku tapped in before Marcus Rashford scuffed wide. The Europa League winners were given encouragement by Lukaku’s strike,…

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Owen Hargreaves has backed Eden Hazard for the EA SPORTS Player of the Season award for 2017/18. The former Manchester United midfielder believes that Hazard can follow N’Golo Kante’s 2016/17 triumph, albeit with competition from a fellow Belgian at Manchester City. “Hazard, for me, was the player of the year last season – if he’s here this season then he’ll win it,” says Hargreaves, the third pundit after Phil Neville and Michael Owen to reveal his predictions for the fortcoming campaign. “Kevin De Bruyne looks like he’s playing with kids;…

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Brazilian superstar, Neymar has completed world record move to Paris Saint-Germain on Thursday when the French club confirmed he had signed a five year-deal, earning him an estimated 30 million euros ($35.5 million) a year. The deal was signed just hours after the 25-year-old paid off his 222 million euro ($264 million) buyout clause to Barcelona. “I am extremely happy to join Paris Saint-Germain,” said Neymar. “Since I arrived in Europe, the club has always been one of the most competitive and most ambitious. And the biggest challenge, what most…

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Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Information and Culture Minister, has said that the Federal Government will amend the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Code to compel brands to sponsor Nigeria Professional Football League. The Minister made the assertion at the close of the “Two-Day Creative Industry Financing Conference’’, sponsored by the ministry in conjunction with “Think Tank Media and Advertising’’ which closed on Tuesday in Lagos. “We will amend the NBC code to ensure that our Premier League improves. “We will make sure that in the Code, if you spend one million dollars…

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The 1st Afolabi Ayantayo football Championship will kick off on the 18th of July 2017 with four teams gunning for glory. The championship is been put together and sponsored by Hon Dipo Liadi and a few of his friends. Hon Dipo Liadi stated that the Orile Agege APC chairmanship Aspirant Hon Afolabi Ayantayo has expressed his delight when he was briefed about the championship. Hon Dipo also stated that the championship was been sponsored in order to support youth development in the LCDA and to also encourage the incoming chairman…

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Super Eagles’ number one goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme, has been diagnosed with acute leukemia. The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed shock at the news on Thursday evening. NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, was lost for words after the sad news broke in the international media. “What? This is very, very sad. Carl Ikeme diagnosed with acute leukemia? This is harsh.” Sanusi stated that the NFF and the Nigerian Football family would rally round the energetic shot –stopper in his difficult period. “Our thoughts are with Carl at this difficult period.…

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Lionel Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo his childhood sweetheart and mother of their two children said “I do” on Friday in his Argentine hometown Rosario, where footballers and celebrities gathered for the “wedding of the century.” Following the private ceremony, the couple appeared happy and relaxed as they walked a red carpet before hundreds of journalists at a hotel and casino complex, Roccuzzo donning a tight, mermaid-style gown by Spanish designer Rosa Clara. The couple’s children Thiago, four, and Mateo, one, had front seats at the ceremony attended by some 260…

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The 2017 GTBank Masters Cup has produced Saint Finbarr’s College Bariga and Queens College Yaba as winners in the male and female champions category. The final matches were decided at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos Thursday where the two schools triumphed over their challengers in a classical manner. In the female final, which preceded the boys’, Queens College put everything to play when they trounced Ansar-Ud-Deen Girls High School, Itire 2-0 in an exciting match that attracted a near capacity crowd which was dominated by students from various schools. The first…

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Students and football lovers in Ogun State defied the torrential rainfall as they trouped out enmass for the semi-final fixtures of the GTBank Ogun State Principals Cup at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Makun High school, Sagamu and Muslim high school, Isolu kicked off the female fixtures and remained inseparable after extra-time before Muslim High school narrowly secured their ticket to the finals by winning 3-4 on penalties In the second game of the female fixtures, Iko Gateway Grammar School, Idiroko secured the only goal…

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The finals of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank Plc) Lagos State Principals Cup holds today in both the boys and girls’ categories at the Teslim Balogun Stadium. Highly enterprising Ijaiye Housing Estate Senior Grammar School, Ojokoro will square up with Ikotun Senior High School, Ikotun, as Isale Eko Grammar School, Lagos Island will meet Government Senior College, Agege in the boys and girls’ group respectively. This year’s finals is part of the state official event to commemorate the Golden Jubilee celebration of Lagos at 50. The competition is seen as…

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