World football governing body, FIFA, has announced that the next edition of its flagship tournament, the FIFA World Cup, which would be held in Qatar would feature 32 countries, and not 48 being proposed. This was made known in a four-paragraph statement released on the soccer body’s website on Wednesday evening. FIFA, headed by Gianni Infantino has been looking at the possibility [...]
Eighteen polo teams from across Nigeria are set to compete in the 2019 Access Bank-UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament which gallops off at the Fifth Chukker Lawns of Kangimi Resort, Kaduna from June 6 to 15.Victor Etuokwu, executive director, retail banking, Access Bank Plc, who announced the dates for the annual tournament in Lagos on Tuesday, said the regular teams [...]
Femi Otedola, billionaire businessman, has assured that money will be no impediment in the way of providing Christian Chukwu, former captain of the Super Eagles, with adequate medical and post-medical care.The business tycoon and chairman of Forte Oil, was speaking when he paid Chukwu a visit at the Wellington hospital, Circus road, St. John’s woods in London.TheCable had broken the news of [...]
Solomon Ogbeide, the coach of Lobi Stars football club, has slumped and died, barely hours to his team’s match against Wikki Tourists of Bauchi.Edema Fuludu, a member of the Tunisia '94 Super Eagles winning team, told TheCable that he died on Monday from low blood pressure."Low BP. I was told," Fuludu said."We just lost Coach Solomon Ogbeide of Lobi Stars. So sad. [...]
Twenty-one young Nigerians will be flying the nation's green-white-green flag in Poland this summer as the nation seeks to bring home the U20 Fifa World Cup. Anticipating the championship, TheCable will begin profiling the Flying Eagles World Cup squad by starting out with the three goalkeepers who have been picked to travel to Poland.Coach Paul Aigbogun picked his 21-man team with [...]
The Agege Stadium in Lagos was buzzing with excitement on Saturday as top African and Nigerian football legends honoured Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, with a testimonial match ahead of his exit from office.Among the players on the Nigerian legend team coached by Olympic gold medal winning coach, Bonfere Joe, were Jay Jay Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu, Samson Siasia, Daniel Amokachi, [...]
Nigeria swept to glory in the 2019 WAFU Women’s Cup tournament in Abidjan on Sunday as the Super Falcons edged host nation Cote d’Ivoire 5-4 after a penalty shootout at the Stade Robert Champroux.The Ivorians took the lead in the 43rd minute of the encounter when Spain–based Ange Koko N’Guessan, who also scored for the Dame Elephantes against Mali in [...]
Olympique Lyonnais Féminin thrashed Asisat Oshoala's Barcelona 4-1 to clinch their fourth back-to-back Champions League trophy at the Ferencvaros Stadium, Budapest.Oshoala's dream of a victory over Lyon to make the Catalan side the first club to win the Champions League with both their male and female sides was dashed.Lyonnais have now won six Champion League title within nine years.Barca, who [...]
Manchester City broke a 116-year record by thrashing Watford FC 6-0 to win the FA Cup final at the Wembley on Saturday.Man City victory over Watford saw them achieve the biggest FA Cup final win since Bury beat Derby 6-0 in 1903Guardiola's men added the FA Cup to their Premier League title and Carabao Cup win, becoming the first English men's [...]
Nigeria's Ahmed Musa has won the Saudi Arabia Professional Football League (SAPFL) title with Al Nassr, which recorded a 2-1 victory over Al Batin at the King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh.Musa featured for 62 minutes before he was substituted with Matheaus Petros on Thursday.Abderazak Hamed-Allah got Al Nassr ahead from the spot in the 26th minute.Zaid Ounalli leveled for Al [...]
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