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Super Eagles’ goalkeeper Ikeme battle leukaemia?

Daily Dispatch July 6, 2017

Super Eagles’ England-based goalkeeper Carl Ikeme is to begin chemotherapy after being diagnosed with acute leukaemia, according to media reports in London on Thursday. The 31-year-old player of Championship side Wolves was said to have returned “abnormal blood tests” during pre-season testing

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Nwankwo Kanu to participate in FIFA U-17 World Cup Draw

Daily Dispatch July 6, 2017

World football governing body FIFA have honoured former Nigeria captain Nwankwo Kanu as one of the star players to participate in tomorrow’s draw for this year’s U17 World Cup in India. The draw ceremony will be staged at the Mumbai Sahara Star Hotel. Kanu scored five goals as Nigeria won the 1993 U17 World Cup […]

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We’ll continue to support the development football at the grassroots-Shell Petroleum

Daily Dispatch July 5, 2017

Buoyed by the gains of its secondary school football tournament in the past 19 years, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), says it will continue to support the development football at the grassroots. Osagie Okunbor, the company’s Managing Director and Country Chair, made the assertion on Tuesday at the final of 19th NNPC/ Shell Cup, an […]

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World Champion Germany Wins First Confederation Cup Title

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2017

World champions Germany secured a first Confederations Cup title after victory against Copa America winners Chile in Sunday’s final in St Petersburg. Lars Stindl hit the first-half winner following a mistake by Marcelo Diaz. Chile’s Arturo Vidal and Angelo Sagal both blazed over the bar in the closing stages. Germany’s Timo Werner was elbowed by […]

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Portugal claim third place in Confederations Cup

Daily Dispatch July 2, 2017

Portugal came from the dead to claim the third place in the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 campaign in a bad tempered match further marred by two red cards and the banning of the Mexican coach. The Cristiano Ronaldo-less team overcame Mexico 2-1 in extra-time at the Spatak Stadium in Moscow, after they had fallen behind via […]

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Ex-police chiefs six others faces criminal charges over Hillsborough disaster

Daily Dispatch June 29, 2017

Prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against six people including ex-police chiefs over the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium crush in which 96 fans died, Britain’s worst sporting disaster, Reuters reports. The victims, all Liverpool supporters, died in an overcrowded, fenced-in enclosure at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, northern England, during an