Football A former Chairman of the League Management Company, Nduka Irabor, has said the company lacks the “modern sophisticated production capacity” for the coverage and to televise matches of the Nigeria Professional Football League. Irabor added that Nigeria’s over-reliance on foreign production companies for television coverage of NPFL matches has left the LMC “stranded” and Read more
By AFP Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions without kicking a ball on Thursday as Chelsea’s 2-1 win over Manchester City ended the Reds’ 30-year wait to win the English title. Jurgen Klopp’s men sealed a 19th league title for the club with a record seven games left to play after second placed City’s defeat Read more
Real Madrid stayed two points behind Barcelona after a 3-1 win over Eibar on Sunday in a game which saw Marcelo take a knee and Eden Hazard suffer another injury. In their first game in three months following the coronavirus suspension, Toni Kroos, Sergio Ramos and Marcelo all scored in the opening 45 minutes. Brazilian Read more
Report from Italy claims that Cristiano Ronaldo will cut short his stay at Juventus and leave the Serie A giants this summer. Ronaldo, 35, has two more years left on the monster four-year contract he signed in the summer of 2018 as he switched Real Madrid for Juve. According to the report from Radio Rossonera, Read more
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Sport/Football By AFP The Premier League season is set to restart on June 17, three months after it was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, British media reported on Thursday. No matches have been played since Leicester’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa on March 9, with Liverpool just two wins away from securing the title. Read more
Football By AFP Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on Saturday that La Liga can resume from its coronavirus lockdown on the week of June 8. “The resumption of major professional sporting competitions and in particular La Liga will be allowed from the week of June 8,” Sanchez told a press conference. More than two Read more
“It is FIFA’s duty to be there and support the ones that are facing acute needs…” By AFP FIFA will release $150 million (139 million euros) to its member football associations to help handle financial troubles caused by the coronavirus, the global governing body said on Friday. FIFA said that “all operational funding” for 2019 Read more
Some sponsors are beginning to cancel payments By AFP With stadiums dark, match shirts folded in closets and most players confined at home, football’s sponsors have lost all visibility and are growing restless. European clubs are struggling to offer their ‘partners’ a return on their investments as sport grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re trying Read more
By Segun Odegbami Everybody remembers the day of the final match in 1980. People recall where they watched the match, who captained the gallant team, who scored the goals and how they celebrated that victory that night and several nights after that eventful Sunday, March 22, 1980. For four decades, they have told and retold Read more
