Nigeria’s Female national team, Super Falcons will take on their Gambian counterparts in the first leg of the African Women Nations Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Stars including Asisat Oshoala, Desire Oparanozie and Francesca Ordega, are scheduled to flew out on Monday to Banjul, capital of Gambia, for the first leg encounter.
The super eagles on Monday commenced final preparations for the FIFA world cup in Russia. The team received a rousing welcome earlier on arrival and headed straight to their Avita Resort Base camp in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria. Once they settled in, the Eagles immediately commenced training at the revered resort.
Tunisia's World Cup football team has apparently found an ingenious way to fight fatigue as they fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In friendly matches against Portugal then Turkey, goalkeeper Mouez Hassen appeared to feign injury at sundown, when the fast comes to an end.
As he lay on the pitch receiving medical treatment, his teammates rushed to the sidelines to drink water and snack on dates.
The tackle which forced Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah to leave the pitch 30 minutes into the Champions League final last week has featured as a question in a law exam, it has been reported.
Syrian pages on Facebook circulated images from the General Penal Code exam sat by first-year students at the University of Damascus.
Ivorian footballer Yaya Toure has taken a dig at his club coach Pep Guardiola a couple of weeks before he leaves Manchester City.
Toure told France Football magazine that the Spaniard had a problem with black players but had been "too intelligent to be caught out".
The Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has explained why he always started Depotivo La Coruna reserved team goalkeeper, Francis Ozoho, in friendly matches over Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Daniel Akpeyi. The German tactician, who dismissed talk of a goalkeeping problem ahead of Nigeria’s 2018 World Cup opener against Croatia, at a post-match conference, said there was no cause for alarm.
