Football legends, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, for the first time since the 2004-05 season, have bowed out of the UEFA Champions League before the quarter-final stage, signaling a possible era change for the dynamic duo who have lit up our football screens for the last two decades. Juventus crash out on Tuesday, March 9following…
Israel Adesanya has suffered his first career loss after he was defeated by Jan Blachowicz at UFC 259 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, March 6. The New Zealand-Nigerian middleweight champion was bidding to become the fifth fighter to hold two UFC titles simultaneously after a 20 – 0 record. In the fight, Adesanya showed…
Israel Adesanya, the reigning UFC middleweight champion honored his father, Oluwafemi, at the UFC 259 pre-fight press conference ahead of his highly-anticipated clash with light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz in Las Vegas on Saturday night, March 6. The 31-year-old arrived for the press conference on Friday, March 5, rocking a white ‘Dadesanya’ t-shirt with his…
Thomas Tuchel has said that his target is not just qualifying the team for next season’s Champions League but to win the Premier League this season. Tuchel is now 10 matches unbeaten since taking over at Stamford Bridge. The German said that moving into the top four (as his team did after beating Liverpool at…
A football match in Ghana took a sad twist as a female referee was reportedly assaulted by a female footballer. Referee Faizatu Jakpa was attacked and beaten up by a player of the Fabulous Ladies in the Ghana women’s league match between Fabulous Ladies and Kumasi Sports Academy. The incident left Jakpa with a swollen…
The British-Nigerian boxer, 31, who defeated Kubrat Pulev in December, will place his WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF belts on the line for the biggest British fight of all time. “June should be the date,’ Joshua said during a JD Sports live stream on Sunday. ‘Trust me. For the fans, for the people that have…
The driver of Adamawa United Football Club, Kabiru Mohammed, who was kidnapped in the early hours of last Saturday, has regained his freedom. Kabiru was set free Wednesday night, GIOTV learned Thursday morning. The driver was kidnapped along Benin-Ore-Lagos road when the bus in which he was driving the players and officials of the football…
The father of Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker drowned in a lake near his holiday home in southern Brazil on Wednesday, February, 24. Jose Becker, 57, had been swimming at a dam on his property when the accident happened, Doroteo Machado Filho, a police inspector in the town of Lavras do Sul, told Reuters. He was…
Nigeria national team coach, Gernot Rohr has confirmed that Nigeria will take on Lesotho in the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, in Lagos State next month. According to Rohr, it will be an opportunity for players like Joe Aribo and Leon Balogun who were not born in Nigeria to…
Former Barcelona midfielder, Martí Vergés, is dead. Vergés died at the age of 86. Barcelona announced in a statement on its website on Wednesday, following their Champions League round of 16 first leg 4-1 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night. The statement read in part, “The former FC Barcelona player from the 1950s and…