After a 25-year of partnership with Nike, the Premier League has confirmed that Puma will be replacing NIKE as its official match ball supplier starting from the 2025-26 season. Recall during the summer of 2023, it was rumored that the Premier League was considering dumping Nike and transition to Puma once the American manufacturer’s contract expired this summer.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) former President, Amaju Pinnick, has lost out on a return to the FIFA Council Seat to Ahmed Yahya and Souleymane Waberi, while Patrice Motsepe from South Africa was re-elected as the CAF President, in the principal decision-making organ of the federation in the intervals of the FIFA Congress.
Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that he will be returning to Liverpool on the final day of this Premier League campaign as he is being invited back by his successor, Arne Slot. At the end of last season, Klopp has not been back at Anfield since he left.
FIFA has concluded plan to give more than $1bn revenue to clubs that will be participating in the World Cup as the European Club Association (ECA), negotiating on behalf of clubs in Europe including Chelsea and Manchester City is close to sealing the deal. BBC Sport and others have confirmed that the 32 clubs involved, including 12 European clubs, will take the lion share of what is anticipated for the club football across a seven-match format.
Nigeria’s U-17 girls a.k.a Flamingos, will today fly out of the country to South Africa for the first of their two-leg FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup qualifying match against the U17 girls of South Africa, known as Bantwana. The match, for which the Confederation of African Football has selected Kenyan officials to superintend, will kick off at 3 pm South Africa time (2 pm Nigeria) on Saturday, 8th March at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital.
Fulham have condemned racist abuse targeted against, Calvin Bassey following the victory of Emirates FA Cup against Manchester United at the Old Trafford yesterday. Bassey was racially and homophobic trolled on the social media after the game.
