France Football, organisers of the Ballon d'Or, have cancelled the 2020 edition of the award due to the "exceptional circumstances" the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the season. In a statement on Monday, the organisers said the prestigious prize will not be handed out this season due to the “lack of sufficient fair conditions”. The development makes it the first of its [...]
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Manchester United and Juventus enjoyed comfortable wins, while Lionel Messi scored his 700th career goal as Barcelona managed a draw in three different league matches played on Tuesday night Man United won 3-0 at Brighton, Juventus wore down Genoa before prevailing 3-1 while Barca, once again, fumbled in their La Liga title challenge to draw 2-2 at home to Atletico Madrid. In [...]
Roger Federer, Swiss professional tennis player, is the world's highest-paid athlete for 2020, according to the annual Forbes list released on Friday. The 38-year-old tennis legend, who ranked fifth on last year's list, overtook Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, two football stars, to take the number 1 spot -- a feat that makes the Swiss the first player from his sport to top the list. Federer’s $106.3 million earned [...]
Pedro Sanchez, Spain's prime minister, has given the La Liga go ahead to resume the league on June 8, after three months of shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 2019-20 Spanish league season has been suspended since March 12 when a state of emergency was declared in the country. But on Saturday, Sanchez gave the green light for football to return in [...]
As the debate on who is the better player between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi continues, William Troost-Ekong, Super Eagles defender, says the Argentine star player is "special". In an Instagram live chat with Super Eagles official handle, Troost-Ekong, while airing his opinion, said having played against both players, Messi stood out for him. "Messi. He is special," the Eagles vice-captain said. "I have [...]
Lionel Messi has been awarded the 2019 Ballon d’Or as Cristiano Ronaldo snubbed this year's edition of the awards. The Barcelona star won the award for a record sixth occasion, after previously lifting the prestigious individual trophy in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. He saw off strong competition from the likes of Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk and the Juventus star, who was one of the [...]
Samuel Chukwueze, Super Eagles winger, and Tom Dele-Ashiru, Flying Eagles midfielder, have been named in the 40-man list of nominees for the 2019 Golden Boy award. The annual award organised by Tuttosport, an Italian newspaper, recognises the most outstanding player in Europe under the age of 21. One of the criteria for nomination is that the players nominated must be playing in top [...]
Lionel Messi, Barcelonian forward, has set a record of winning the FIFA best male footballer of the year six times. The 32-year-old was announced the winner at a ceremony on Monday; beating his arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk, who was recently named UEFA player of the year. Having missed the cut last season, Messi scored 36 league goals to clinch [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese professional football player who also plays for Juventus, says he has to win more Ballon d'Or awards before he retires. This, he said, would ensure he retires as the greatest player of all time; ahead of Lionel Messi, an Argentine footballer who also plays for Barcelona. The Ballon d'Or is an annual football award presented by France Football, [...]
Virgil van Dijk beat Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to claim the men’s UEFA Player of the Year award. The winner was announced on Thursday night during the Champions League draw ceremony in Monaco. The talismanic centre-back helped guide the Reds to European Cup glory, keeping a clean sheet as Jurgen Klopp’s men defeated Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid. Messi, the top scorer in [...]
Lionel Messi came off the bench to hand Barcelona its fourth La Liga title in five years in a 1-0 defeat of Levante. Messi broke Andre Iniesta's record as the player with the most La Liga titles with Barcelona, setting a new record at 10 titles, one title ahead of the Spanish midfielder. Messi broke the deadlock in the 61st minute when he picked up [...]
Liverpool retained first spot on the EPL log with a dominant 3-1 win over Manchester United at Anfield, thanks to goals from Saido Mane and Xerdan Shaqiri. Jurgen Klopp's boys pinned Jose Mourinho's timid side from the start and got a reward through Mane's volley after the Senegalese controlled Fabinho's pinpoint pass with his chest. A mistake from Liverpool keeper, [...]
Croatia and Real Madrid’s Luka Modric broke the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo ten-year supremacy once again as he clinched the 2018 Ballon d'Or on Monday. Messi and Ronaldo were the two who had won football's top individual prize for the last decade but Modric changed it all this year. He helped Croatia get to their first ever World Cup final in Russia during [...]
Liverpool returned to the top of their Uefa Champions League group with a 4-0 thrashing of Red Star Belgrade at Anfield, with the goals scored by their fearsome attacking trident of Roberto Firmino, Saido Mane and Mohammed Salah. The Reds dominated from start and went ahead on 20 minutes through Firmino. The Brazilian striker controlled Andrew Robertson's cross before dispatching for [...]
Neymar and Lionel Messi were the stars on Wednesday as Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona earned commanding wins. Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund also emerged winners but Liverpool lost at Napoli. PSG 6-1 Red Star Belgrade Brazilian maestro, Neymar, was at the heart of an imperial performance as PSG steamrolled Red Star Belgrade to earn their first points of the UCL season. The [...]
Barcelona started their UCL season with a 4-0 win over PSV Eindhoven at the Camp Nou stadium, thanks to a Lionel Messi hat trick and a brilliant individual strike by Ousmanne Dembele. The first goal was a brilliant free kick just outside the penalty area while the 30-year old's second and third were first-time shots from the six-yard box off two [...]
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