The Nigerian domestic cup competition, Federation Cup, will now be known as the Aiteo Cup after the energy group signed a sponsorship deal with the Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday. The deal is expected to bring the necessary funds that has been lacking in the competition for so many years. According to the details of …
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The Video Assistant Referee is the latest football innovation to be introduced by world governing body Fifa. It involves two referees sitting in front of a television monitor to review decisions made by the head referee through headset communication. There are four kinds of decisions that can be reviewed; 1) Goals, 2) Penalty decisions, 3) …
Football is a team sport as well as one filled with individual skills in taking set-pieces or even extra-ordinary ones like Ricardo Quaresma’s rabona way of assists. The beautiful game is one that has its unique skills associated with different teams, who often use them in unorthodox fashion to acquire results in difficult situations. This …
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That’s the question on everyone’s mind since reports surfaced that Cristiano Ronaldo wants to quit Real Madrid. This came after he was alleged to have avoided paying tax worth €14.7 million to Spanish authorities between 2011 and 2014. After such a successful year in which he won the Euros, the Club World Cup, the Ballon …
20th June 2016 was a dark day for the Golden State Warriors as they lost the NBA finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-3 in the best of seven series. They became the first team to lose a 3-1 lead in finals history, after a regular season in which they broke the record for most wins …
The transfer market is arguably the most exciting aspect of the football calendar because it affords clubs the ability to strengthen and challenge season objectives. However the current market is so hyperinflated such that clubs especially top guns have to dig extra deep to get their targets. Gone are the days when a good bargain …
Cristiano Ronaldo is someone who has been at the forefront of the footballing world for the last 15 years, either winning the Champions League with Manchester United, becoming the first player in English football to win the FIFA World Player of the Year or his then world record transfer of £80 million to Real Madrid. …
Rewind to the summer of 2013 and Mario Mandzukic was on top of the footballing pedestal, winning the treble of the German Bundesliga, the DFB Pokal and the UEFA Champions League, with Bayern Munich. The Croatian international was pivotal in this run for the treble, scoring a total of 22 goals in all competitions. Fast-forward …
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