Super Eagles of Nigeria have maintained the 31st position in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola world rankings. According to the list released on Thursday by the world football body, the Super Eagles also took 3rd position in the continent. Belgium secured the FIFA ranking’s 'Team of the Year' for the second successive time after a record-breaking year for the global ladder. The Red Devils held on [...]
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John Obi Mikel, former Super Eagles midfielder, says Eden Hazard, his former teammate at Chelsea FC, "is the laziest player I have ever played alongside". The Belgian captain, who played alongside Mikel for five years at the Stamford Bridge, has been criticised by the ex-Eagles leader for his lethargic attitude in training during their time together. Hazard was the leading light in [...]
The Super Eagles of Nigeria maintained its 44th position in the latest FIFA world ranking released on Thursday. In the continent, the three-time African champions dropped a spot down from 3rd to 4th spot. The Super Eagles lost 14 points from October's 1441 to 1427. While the Teranga Lions of Senegal have overtaken the continent's number one position from Tunisia. Senegal and Tunisia are [...]
The Super Eagles moved four spots up from 48 to 44 in the latest FIFA world ranking released on Thursday. On the continent, the three-time African champions now occupy the third position. The Super Eagles also gained 16 points from September's 1415. Belgium overtook world champions France who dropped a spot down from first to the second spot. The top 10 teams are: Belgium (1) France [...]
The Global Fire Power (GFP), an institution which ranks the military of different countries, has rated the Nigerian military as the 43rd best in the world, in its 2018 survey. This places Nigeria above 18 European countries namely: Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland, Macedonia, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Egypt leads the African military [...]
KAA Gent have reportedly agreed to sell Samuel Kalu to Bordeaux in a deal worth around €8m. Gustavo Poyet had identified Kalu as the player who can bring more speed and creativity to his squad, following the departure of Malcom to Barcelona. The Les Girondins had an initial bid for the Nigerian rejected by Gent with the Belgian side reportedly looking for around [...]
Romelu Lukaku, Belgian and Manchester United striker, says his family was so poor the borrowed bread from the bakery to eat, and pay later. [...]
Belgium defeated World Cup debutants, Panama 3-0 this afternoon with two goals from Romelu Lukaku, and the opener from Dries Mertens. [...]
Ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, TheCable takes a look at the track record and best performances of the 32 countries that will be in Russia for the tournament. Group A Russia's best World Cup performance was a semi-final appearance in 1966 in England. Saudi Arabia has never gone past the round of 16. The Pharaohs of Egypt have also never progressed beyond [...]
The weekend was packed with highs and lows for Nigerian players in several leagues across the world. While some hugged the headlines for netting crucial goals, a reverse was the case for others. TheCable takes you on a voyage around the top leagues across the world to see how Nigerian players fared. England Alex Iwobi dazzled at Emirates Stadium in Arsenal's 5-1 thumping of Everton. [...]
Carles Puigdemont, ousted leader of Catalonia, has surrendered to the police in Belgium. Puigdemont fled to Belgium after Spain imposed direct rule on Catalonia, following an independence referendum. BBC quoted Gilles Dejemppe, a spokesman for Belgian prosecutors, as saying Puigdemont and four of his associates surrendered to Belgian federal police. A Madrid high court judge had asked Belgium to arrest after they ignored a court order to [...]
He came, fought but could not make it past the quarterfinal. Nigeria's Aruna Quadri on Saturday crashed out of the 2017 ITTF World Cup in Liege, Belgium. Having worked his way into the main draw (round of 16) of the tournament, Quadri’s dream of repeating the 2014 quarter-final feat was extinguished by Japan’s Jun Mizutani. Quadri fell 4-0 (6-11, 7-11, 6-11, 7-11) to the [...]
All things being equal, yet another talented Europe-born footballer may soon be playing for the Super Eagles. His name is Cyriel Dessers, and he was born in Belgium - a country blessed with the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Christian Benteke. Owing to the array of talents in the Belgian national team, Dessers has hinted on the possibility of pitching his tent with [...]
Jan Jambon, Belgium's interior minister, on Thursday confirmed the media report which said Najim Laachraoui, one of the suicide bombers was a previous airport employee. The report revealed that Laachraoui spent five years working under a temporary contract with a company active on the site. He retained his job at the airport until the end of 2012. “This would have allowed him to get informed [...]
Twin explosions brought down chaos to the departure hall of Brussels airport on Tuesday morning, less than 96 hours after the arrest of Salah Abdelsalam, the last living suspect involved in the Paris attack, which killed many in the French “city of love”. Belga, the Belgian news agency that first confirmed the attack, initially said one person was killed bile many sustained injuries. The [...]
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