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Ninety minutes at the Stade Olympique de Rabat tonight will determine whether the most decorated team in African women’s football survives a group stage it has never before failed to clear. Nigeria’s Super Falcons meet Egypt at 9:00 p.m. Nigerian time in the final round of Group C fixtures at the 2026 Women’s Africa…
Nigeria’s bid to defend their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations crown enters its final group stage test on Wednesday without two players who helped keep their campaign alive, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) handed down suspensions that will shape team selection for the must win clash against Egypt. Defender Oluwatosin Demehin and…
Real Madrid have moved to fix the most obvious gap in their squad, completing the signing of Levante striker Carlos Espi on Thursday for a reported 25 million euros, roughly 29 million dollars, on a five year contract that ties the forward to the Santiago Bernabeu until June 30, 2031. The deal, which the…
Brazil’s all time leading goalscorer Neymar has confirmed that he will not play for the national team again, closing a 16 year international chapter that rewrote the record books yet never delivered the World Cup crown he chased across four tournaments. The 34 year old Santos forward settled the lingering question on Tuesday, July 29,…
Malawi’s Scorchers announced themselves on the continental stage in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night, handing defending champions Nigeria a three goals to two defeat in their opening Group C fixture at the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat, Morocco, in what ranks among the biggest upsets in the competition’s history. The result…
A landmark moment in African women’s football arrived in Casablanca on Monday as South Africa’s Robyn Moodaly-Salgado and Gabriela Moodaly-Salgado became the first married couple to feature together in a single Women’s Africa Cup of Nations fixture, even as the defending champions stumbled to a surprise defeat. Both players were named by head coach…
Andrea Pirlo’s widely expected appointment as head coach of Italy’s national team collapsed on Monday, July 27, 2026, after the 47 year old confirmed he was no longer in contention, ending a candidacy undone not by his coaching record but by his commercial links to a Russian bookmaker. “After learning last night that I…
Victor Osimhen remains firmly on Manchester United’s list of striker targets even as Galatasaray dig in against any sale, setting up one of the summer’s most closely watched standoffs between a cash conscious English giant and a Turkish champion determined to build its project around the Nigerian. The Super Eagles forward has become…
Lamine Yamal has done what no footballer before him managed, becoming the first player under the age of 20 to hold both the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup, after Spain edged Lionel Messi’s Argentina 1-0 in the 2026 final at the New York New Jersey Stadium on Sunday. The Barcelona forward,…
Lionel Messi has moved to the front of the adidas Golden Boot race and climbed to the summit of FIFA’s Creativity Power Ranking, positioning the Argentina captain at the centre of two individual contests that will run alongside Sunday’s 2026 World Cup final against Spain. FIFA published the revised Golden Boot standings and its…
