Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed midfielder Emre Can will miss the rest of the 2017-18 season. The Germany international has been sidelined with a back problem recently. Amid rumours he was set to miss the rest of the campaign, Klopp was asked by Sky Sports whether Can's term was over.
If you were a fan of Nigerian football in the early 1980s, you would remember Tunji Banjo, John Chidozie and John Orlando.
They were among the first generation of “professionals” — as foreign-based players were called at the time — to play for the national team, then called the “Green Eagles” before they were rechristened “Super Eagles” by the military government in 1988.
Banjo, now 58, played nine international games for the Green Eagles, his debut coming on July 12, 1980 in a World Cup qualifying match against Tunisia.
Lagos-based MFM FC suffered a shock defeat in the hands of visiting Djoliba FC of Mali and they will face an uphill task overturning the 0-1 defeat in the elimination match when they lock horns in the weeks to come. The Olukoya Boys tasted the first home defeat this season and also became the first to lose at home to the visitors.
Bayern Munich secured a record sixth successive Bundesliga title thanks to a 4-1 win away to Augsburg on Saturday. Jupp Heynckes’ men could have won the title with last weekend’s 6-0 Klassiker crushing of Borussia Dortmund had Schalke not beaten Freiburg, but there was to be no denying them this time around.
Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane, has calmly dismissed any insinuations that his team will give the traditional guard of honour to Barcelona should they win the LaLiga title before next month’s El Clasico clash. The two Spanish powerhouses will meet at the Nou Camp on the weekend of May 5, just four matches before the end of the league campaign.
The Super Falcons of Nigeria were hammered 8-0 by France senior women’s national team in an international friendly game played inside the MMArena in Le Mans, France on Friday. The friendly is part of preparations for the Falcons ahead of the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations qualifiers. It was new Swedish coach Thomas Dennerby’s first game with the main team of the Super Falcons.
