Former France defender Jean-Pierre Adams has died aged 73 after almost 40 years in a coma, his former club Nimes announced on Monday. Adams, who made 22 international appearances in the 1970s, slipped into a coma after a mistake by…
Players of the senior men’s national football team and their officials on Monday arrived in Cape Verde bubbling with enthusiasm, ahead of Tuesday’s 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying match. Reports said that the Super Eagles players and officials arrived at…
England marked their return to Wembley for the first time since their Euro 2020 final heartbreak by seeing off minnows Andorra 4-0 on Sunday to preserve their perfect World Cup qualifying record. Manager Gareth Southgate changed the entire starting XI…
Gareth Bale scored a hat-trick, including a 93rd-minute winner, as Wales fought back to beat Belarus 3-2 on Sunday in World Cup qualifying. The victory was Wales’ second in three games in Group E and moves them up to third,…
Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has confirmed that members of his squad who play in the UK have left for their clubs. This is because of the UK government’s strict regulations on Red List countries, with Nigeria…
Barcelona and Real Madrid have submitted their squads for the 2021-22 Champions League group stages, listing plenty of young talents as published on the UEFA website. While Barcelona is drawn in Group E alongside the likes of Bayern Munich, Benfica,…
Manchester United striker, Edinson Cavani, has said he is “sad and upset” over the club’s decision to prevent him from representing Uruguay during this international break. The 34-year-old was one of 50 players affected by the Premier League’s decision not…
Nigeria began their quest to qualify for the 2022 World Cup with a 2-0 win over Liberia on Friday. The game was played at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos. Leicester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho scored a first-half brace to seal…
Novak Djokovic insisted he was not acting like a “spoiled brat” after complaining about a noisy spectator during Thursday’s routine second-round win over Tallon Griekspoor at the US Open. The Serbian’s quest for a calendar grand slam rarely looked like…
Football’s ruling body FIFA on Friday promised “adequate actions” in response to the racist abuse, which marred England’s World Cup qualifying win in Hungary. England players, Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham were targeted by monkey chants by home supporters during…
