Al Ahly SC sealed a first leg victory against rivals Esperance de Tunis in the CAF Champions League final on Friday.The Egyptian Premier League champions won 3-1 at the Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria.Nigeria international Junior Oluwafemi Ajayi was left out of the game due to injury.In the 34th minute, Walid Soliman scored from the penalty spot to give the hosts [...]
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Essam El Hadary has retired from international football at the age of 45.The Egyptian football legend was handed his debut in 1996 and went on to play in 159 matches in a career that spanned over two decades.El-Hadary made history at the 2018 World Cup in Russia as he became the oldest player to feature in the mundial.He was in [...]
Junior Ajayi, newly invited Super Eagles forward, will be unavailable for the team's upcoming game against Poland owing to visa hitches.The Eagles players are expected to start arriving Wroclaw on Monday, ahead of the international friendly with the Polish side.The Nigerian team will trade tackles with Poland on Friday and face Serbia three days later.Ajayi, who recently emerged as the best [...]
Junior Ajayi has described his call-up to the Super Eagles as the "greatest source of satisfaction".The Al Ahly striker is among the 28 players invited for the Eagles' friendly games against Poland and Serbia.He will link up with the likes of Odion Ighalo, John Obi Mikel, Victor Moses and Wilfred Ndidi.Ajayi told TheCable that he's "in shock" to have been invited, saying [...]
The Egyptian authorities have seized assets of former national football hero Mohamed Abou-Treika after he was accused of funding the banned Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood.The country’s central bank had acted upon the instructions of a committee drawn up to seize and manage the outlawed Brotherhood’s funds and properties following the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.Abou-Treika [...]
Peter Ebimobowei is proud to have completed “the biggest move of my career” after signing for Egyptian giants and eight times CAF Champions League winners Al Ahly.The forward, who scored 18 goals for Bayelsa United to finish as third best scorer in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), signed a three-year contract with the club.“This is the biggest move of [...]
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