Chelsea Football Club and IFS have announced a multi-year global partnership, which the club describes as an attempt to integrate cutting-edge artificial intelligence into its football operations and performance. The Premier League team announced on its website on Friday that IFS would be promoted to Principal Partner effective immediately and would be featured on the […]
Soccer, or football as it is known in many parts of the world, reigns supreme in Africa. Its widespread popularity across the continent isn’t just a coincidence. It results from a unique blend of accessibility, fandom, and betting expansion. Accessibility: The Beautiful Game for All The beauty of soccer lies in its simplicity and accessibility. […]
Manchester City midfielder, IIkay Gundogan is the third player to contract coronavirus in recent weeks. READ ALSO: Carabao Cup: Liverpool to meet Arsenal or Leicester City A statement from City read, “Ilkay is now observing a 10-day period of self-isolation in accordance with Premier League and UK Government protocol on quarantine, “ “Everyone at the club wishes […]
Alexandre Lacazette has cleared the air that he has no intention of leaving Arsenal this summer. READ ALSO: EPL: Giroud reveals why he chose Chelsea over Juventus Lacazette says he’d be unhappy if rumours of the club trying to include him in a swap deal for Atletico Madrid’s Thomas Partey were true. Daily Times gathered […]
Paris Saint Germain captain Thiago Silva wants to move to the Premier League before he retires from football. Silva will be a free agent next week after refusing to ink a deal with the French champions. There had been rumours last week that Silva would like to join Carlo Ancelotti at Everton but there is interest […]
The Major League Soccer announced on Thursday that an unidentified Inter Miami player tested positive for COVID-19, following a round of mandatory club testing this week. The MLS said that the player was asymptomatic and will be isolated from the rest of the squad. The player has also been observing isolation protocols since he self-identified […]
Manchester City registered an easy 3-0 win over Arsenal at Eithad Stadium on Wednesday. The EPL match saw Raheem Sterling opening the scoring at the stroke of half time before Kevin De Bruyne added the second through a penalty kick and Phil Fodden wrapped up the three points deep in injury time. Substitute David Luiz […]
Nigerian forward, Taiwo Awoniyi, is ‘conscious and responsive’ after suffering a head injury while in action for Mainz in Sunday’s 1-0 loss at home to Augsburg, his coach Achim Beierlorzer has stated. Awoniyi was taken to the hospital on Sunday after he was knocked out after an aerial challenge with Augsburg’s Felix Uduokhai. Play was delayed for […]
Annual Forbes list released on Friday confirms Roger Federer is the world’s highest-paid athlete for 2020, sweeping Lionel Messi off the top spot. The 20 Grand Slam singles titles holder, earned 106.3 million dollars in the last 12 months, including 100 million dollars via endorsements. This helped him to move up four places and become […]
The English premier league will resume on June 17 with the two fixtures earlier postponed. The match between Aston Villa vs Sheffield United and Manchester City vs Arsenal was postponed earlier due to coronavirus pandemic. Fans have taken to their twitter handles to react; When those games are completed, every team in the league will have […]
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare has inaugurated a 12 -member committee virtually to ensure COVID-19-compliant infrastructure and protocols for the 20th National Sports Festival tagged “Edo 2020”. The minister urged members of the committee to interface with relevant agencies to ensure COVID-19-compliant infrastructure for the festival. “Your terms of reference include […]
German giants, Bayern Munich this weekend kept their four-point lead at the top of Bundesliga after beating Eintracht Frankfurt 5-2. Bayern Munich collected 61 points on Saturday, scoring their sixth consecutive win in the league at the end of Week 27. Second-place Borussia Dortmund on Saturday was defeated 2-0 in an away match, chasing the […]
Welsh professional footballer, Gareth Frank Bale appears to be the dominant mention, after a fan put up tweet asking who the greatest Welsh player is. see tweets below;
UK – Elite sport in England cannot return until at least June 1 and will have to take place without spectators present, a government document containing guidelines on easing lockdown restrictions said on Monday. Most professional sport in England has been suspended since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. English Premier League clubs are meeting […]
CAF has officially postponed the finals of the 2019/20 CAF Confederation Cup and CAF Champions League indefinitely due to the current coronavirus crisis. In a statement published on its website on Saturday, CAF said the decision was made after the semi-finals were postponed a week ago. READ ALSO: Abba Kyari death is a big loss […]
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has accepted he was in the wrong for holding a one-on-one training session with midfielder Tanguy Ndombele in a public park in London. Mourinho was pictured on social media flaunting government rules by meeting up with the midfielder Tuesday, even though they kept to social distancing guidelines. Fellow Spurs players Davinson […]
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday in Madrid’s La Caja Magica, Rafa Nadal punched the air as chants of “Rafa, Rafa” echoed around the arena and the Davis Cup Finals burst into life. After generally disappointing attendances so far at the glitzy new version of the 119-year-old competition, a sell-out crowd in the cavernous 12,500-seat stadium […]
Some sports stakeholders in Nasarawa state on Thursday observed that the use of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in local football fixtures in the country would fail due to certain obvious reasons. VAR is a match official in Association Football who reviews decisions made by the head referee. READ ALSO Nigerian Armed Forces shine at international […]
The Gov. Godwin Obaseki Kickboxing Championships will be used to assess the preparedness of the kickboxing community for the 2020 National Sports Festival (NSF), the Kickboxing Federation of Nigeria (KBFN) has said. Nelson Oluigbo, KBFN Board Member, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the championships would hold in the Samuel Ogbemudia […]
Mesut Ozil has sent a birthday message to former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger – less than a day after being snubbed by Unai Emery again. The German was left out Emery’s matchday squad for the visit to Sheffield United on Monday night, the fourth time in a row that his Spanish manager has decided to […]