Foreign-based professionals will join the Flying Eagles camp in Abuja next week ahead of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. Head coach, Ladan Bosso called up 35 players for the second phase of their camping exercise on Saturday. Bosso has also pencilled down foreign-based quartet, Ibrahim
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By Kunle Awosiyan Like many of those who came before him, boxing rescued Anthony Joshua from the street, took him to the gim and made him a star in the ring for the world to see. Perhaps boxing had not come, this British-Nigerian could have succeeded as a body builder due to his God given […]
By Kunle Awosiyan Just as tourists trooped to Muhammad Ali Centre at Louisville, Kentucky USA after the death of the boxer, the Pele Museum in Santos, Brazil is wide open to tourists after the death of the soccer legend on Thursday. Edson Arantes de Nascimento, (Pele) played his last game without kicking a ball but […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele who died on Thursday. The world’s greatest ever football player succumbed to death after suffering a debilitating bout of cancer. He won three World Cups and scored over 1,281 goals, becoming […]
Brazil legend, Pele, was seen making a video call from his hospital bed and the caption on the video claims he is saying goodbye to family and friends The condition of the three-time world champion has deteriorated. A viral video shows him struggling to breathe. The 82-year-old, who had a tumour removed from his colon […]
By Abubakar Sadiq Salisu In the aftermath of the 1986 World Cup, won almost single-handedly for Argentina by Diego Maradona, there were outpourings of debates as to who deserved the title of “Greatest Footballer of All-Time” between Maradona and Pele. As the debate raged on, a cousin of mine gave me a clipping from the […]
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