Premier League champions Chelsea will be the first opponents for runners-up Tottenham at their temporary home of Wembley on the second weekend of the 2017/18 campaign it was revealed on Wednesday when the fixtures were published.
Chelsea and Ivory Coast Legend, Didier Drogba enjoyed a dream debut for United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising FC, scoring and assisting as they beat Vancouver Whitecaps.
Drogba is also part owner of the US club.
England won their biggest international title since 1966 by beating Venezuela 1-0 in the Under-20 World Cup final, with a team featuring as much as six players of Nigerian decent.
Bafana Bafana of South African on Saturday, defeated the Super Eagles of Nigeria in a 2019 AFCON qualifier, played at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a Ghanaian football player in Sweden's second division to two years in prison for raping and beating his wife. After serving his sentence, 22-year-old Kwame Bonsu, who played for the Gefle IF club, will be expelled from the Scandinavian country where he has lived in since 2013, the Gavle District Court said.
South Africa’s Bafana Bafana landed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom Thursday afternoon ahead of Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium.
