THE Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande,said the Federal Government had conveyed to FIFA a letter recognising Amaju Pinnick-led Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the substantive board of the federation. Akande, who tweeted this on his tweeter account, said that the Pinnick-led NFF ...
NIGERIA’S Under-20 Women’s team have crashed out of the ongoing Women’s World Cup in France. The Spanish team beat the falconets, 2-1 to advance to the semi-final stage of the competition. Spain scored the first two goals of the match in the first half before Nigeria’s Peace Efih responded ...
PHOTO: New York Times The first France goal came off a Croatian’s head. The second was scored with the aid of the Argentine referee, and became the first video-assistant-reviewed goal in World Cup history. But the next two — hard low shots by the young French stars Paul Pogba ...
Pinnick FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, says the world football ruling body recognises only Amaju Pinnick as president of Nigeria Football Federation, and will not accept any outside interference in NFF’s affairs. Infantino, while responding to questions at a press conference in Moscow on Friday, said Pinnick was duly elected ...
PHOTO: Skysport NOVAK Djokovic insists it’s only fair that he should play his Wimbledon quarter-final on Centre Court on Wednesday, handing the All England Club a dilemma over relegating Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal to Court One. Despite being a three-time champion, Djokovic has featured just once on Centre ...
STAN Wawrinka’s poor run at recent Grand Slams continued on Thursday when the Swiss lost 7-6(7) 6-3 7-6(6) in the Wimbledon second round against Italian, Thomas Fabbiano. Wawrinka, winner of three Grand Slams, trailed by two sets overnight but was 6-5 ahead in the third when play resumed in ...
THE FIFA Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the Argentinian Football Association with a fine of 105,000 Swiss Francs and a warning. The Football Association was sanctioned for the violation of article 67 paragraphs 2 and 3 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. Argentinian supporters had been involved in fights, throwing objects ...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin of Russia on Wednesday, thanked FIFA president Gianni Infantino and the football community, for keeping politics out of sport, the day before the start of the soccer World Cup. Putin said this while welcoming delegates from more than 200 countries at the FIFA Congress at Moscow’s ...
Fifa president Gianni Infantino, right, delivers a speech after the presentations of the bids to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup © Reuters The 2026 World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico after their joint bid beat Morocco’s proposal to host it. The ‘United ...
OUTGOING Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was on Tuesday banned for three European matches for his red card and comments about referee Michael Oliver after the Italian side’s dramatic Champions League quarter-final loss to Real Madrid last month. The 40-year-old had been charged both with breaching UEFA’s “general principles of ...