Football

Nigeria B head coach Salisu Yusuf has invited 23 players for May 22 hybrid friendly against newly crowned Europa League champions, Atletico Madrid.

The fixture billed for the Godswill Akpabio Stadium will see the Super Eagles battle Los Rojiblancos – who dismissed Olympique Marseille 3-0 to win the Europa League on Wednesday.

The squad is a blend of foreign and local based professionals with Netherlands based midfielder Kelechi Nwakali, Ojo Olorunleke, Musa Muhammed and Dayo Ojo making the cut.

Pep Guardiola signed a new contract to commit himself to Manchester City for another three years and immediately warned the rest of English football that his intention was to make his record-breaking team even more formidable opponents.

Guardiola has agreed a two-year extension to his present deal, which had another 12 months to run, meaning he will have until 2021 to achieve the club’s ambition of winning the Champions League for the first time.

“I am so happy and excited,” he said. “It’s a pleasure to be able to work here. I enjoy working with our players every day and we will try to do our best together in the coming years.

American sportswear makers Nike have claimed that they have received in excess of three million orders for the new World Cup jerseys of the Super Eagles. The jerseys were unveiled in February but are still not available on general sale. At a meeting with Nigeria Football Federation executives at Nike’s Europe headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the sportswear company also announced that the much-anticipated release of the jerseys into the global market would happen on Tuesday, 29th May, at a the cost of $85 (about N30,000).

Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu (68kg) has arrived in New York to join her teammates for the “Beat The Streets Invitational Wrestling Tournament’’ beginning on May 17. Oborududu was unable to travel on Sunday with her teammates due to visa problems. She joined Odunayo Adekuoroye (57kg) and Aminat Adeniyi (62kg) for the competition that will hold at the popular Times Square, New York.

With the Premier League season now over, the division has confirmed that its clubs earned an astonishing 2.8 billion euros (2.4 billion pounds) from television revenue over 2017/18. The below table shows the distribution and details of the income of each club, as commercial payments and international TV fees, are split evenly between all 20 teams.

Arjen Robben has officially signed one-year contract extension until the end of the 2018-19 season at German champions Bayern Munich. Robben, 34, joined the Bavarians in 2009 from Real Madrid and has won seven Bundesliga titles and four DFB Pokals during his time at the club.