Friday, November 15, 2024

Football

The beautiful game played in Africa. News, events, results, analysis, statistics, profiles, colour stories and more, from across the continent.

Setien voices concern over La Liga’s “five substitutions” rule

Barcelona manager Quique Setien says that his side will be hurt by new rules allowing five substitutions per game instead of three.La Liga has been suspended since March due to the coronavirus pandemic but is eyeing a return on...

PSG and Inter reach agreement over Icardi deal

French champions, Paris Saint-Germain have reached an agreement with Italian giants, Internazionale, for the services of Mauro Icardi.The Argentinian striker spent the season on loan at PSG and has impressed at Thomas Tuchel's side. Icardi's displays relegated usual scorer Edison...

Bosz allays fears over Havertz injury

Bayer Leverkusen head coach Peter Bosz has moved to allays concerns over the state of the club's star, Kai Havertz.Havertz suffered an injury late in Friday night's 1-0 Bundesliga win at Freiburg.The in-form midfielder netted as Leverkusen won an...

Real Madrid again world’s most valuable club

Thirteen-time European champions, Real Madrid have held on to their record of being the most valuable football club in the world for the second year in a row, after increasing their value by eight percent in 2019. Friday’s edition of Dario AS Los...

UCL ref, Vincic embroiled in drugs, prostitution ring controversy

UEFA Champions League referee, Slavko Vincic has been arrested by police in Bosnia and Herzegovina for his alleged involvement in a drugs and prostitution ring. Vincic refereed the 2019/20 Champions League game between Genk and Liverpool as well as two...

FA Cup gets green light

The oldest football competition in the world, the FA Cup was on Friday (May 29), given the green light to return to action. Football Association officials confirmed that the quarter-final ties will be played on the weekend of June 27...

Tech brings fans to the stadium

Denmark’s Superliga became the second league in Europe to make a return following the coronavirus-inflicted halt on proceedings, and one club – AGF Aarhus- looked to ensure their fans were as close to the action as possible. Aarhus, founded in...

Premier League returns on June 17

The Premier League looks set to return with games scheduled to commence from June 17. Two games will be played initially, both fixtures that had been delayed before the break. That will ensure that all teams will have played...

Adah calls for decisions on NPFL winners and losers to be made “on the...

Kwara United attacking midfielder, Stephen Adah has called for decisions over which teams should be declared winners and which the losers of the suspended Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) to be made on the pitch rather than in boardrooms. While...

Former Roma midfielder, Joseph Bouasse dies

Former AS Roma midfielder, Joseph Bouasse Perfection has died at the age of 21. The Cameroon-born player suffered a heart attack on Sunday night (May 24) and died soon after.  Perfection never played for the first team of the Giallorossi...
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