Category: Sports
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JUST IN: Finidi George Gets New Appointment After Resigning As Super Eagles Coach
Former Super Eagles coach, Finidi George, has been unveiled as the Rivers United coach. He signed a two-year contract. The unveiling took place at the Rivers United’s secretariat in Port Harcourt. The 54-year-old will now take over the reign at the former Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) champions following Stanley Eguma’s sack towards the end…
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Oliseh declares interest in Eagles job
Former Nigeria midfielder Sunday Oliseh has said he would be interested in taking over the national team. The role is vacant after Finidi George resigned last month. Oliseh himself succeeded the late Stephen Keshi as Eagles coach in 2015 and quit in 2016. The ex-Borussia Dortmund midfielder has said if the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF,…
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LATEST FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024 UPDATES -Xavi Simons is the youngest player to provide an assist in a European Championship knockout round game for the Netherlands in a game he started. 21 years and 72 days old. -Cody Gakpo is the third player to score 3+ goals at two different major tournaments for the…
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LATEST FOOTBALL UPDATES
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024 -France have scored three goals at EURO 2024: Own Goal, Penalty and Own Goal. -Kanté breaks the record of Xavi as France have not lost any of their 19 games at major tournaments when N’Golo has played. It’s 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 by any European player with 13 games won…
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FOOTBALL UPDATES
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024 -England have won their last four games when conceding first at the Euros, with only France (5) winning more after conceding the opener. -England have reached the quarter-finals in back-to-back Men’s European Championship tournaments for the very first time, but they needed two record-breaking goals to do it.Jude Bellingham’s…
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EURO 2024: Two teams book quarter-finals place The first two teams to qualify for the quarter-final stage at Euro 2024 have been confirmed. This follows the completion of two Round of 16 fixtures on Saturday. Germany booked their place, thanks to a 2-0 win over Denmark in Dortmund. There were no goals in the first…
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FOOTBALL UPDATES
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024 -Italy have failed to reach the Quarter-Final of a UEFA European Championship Finals for the first time since 2004 (eliminated at the Group stage in that case). -Yann Sommer has kept his first clean sheet at EURO 2024.He only had to make one save against Italy. -Granit Xhaka has…
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FOOTBALL UPDATESCompiled By Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024
UPDATES -Kobbie Mainoo is set to make his first Euro 2024 start against Slovakia. Gareth Southgate is unlikely to make many changes, with a late check on Kieran Trippier’s fitness, but only minimal changes are expected. -Croatia created more xG (7.27) than any other team in the EURO 2024 group stage and still got knocked…
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EURO 2024: FOOTBALL UPDATES
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde -Kobbie Mainoo is in line to be handed his first major tournament start for the Three Lions against Slovakia on Sunday. -Former Georgia Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is set to give over $10M to the Georgian national team for qualifying for the Euro 2024 Round of 16. The Georgian oligarch announced…
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FOOTBALL UPDATES
Compiled by Miracle Ogunde EURO 2024 -The FA confirmed that Phil Foden has temporarily left the England camp at EURO 2024 and returned to the UK for a ‘pressing family matter.’ -Romelu Lukaku has more goals disallowed (3) than England have scored goals (2) at the Euros. -UEFA confirmed that Denmark finished ahead of Slovenia…