The Football association of Cote d’Ivoire has rubbished the stories doing rounds in the African media that the 2021 edition of the AFCON is not going to take place in the country and is rather going to take place in Cameroon.
Barcelona defender Moussa Wague has been unable to feature for the Catalans since his move in the summer from Eupen due to his difficulty to obtain a work permit.
He will remain ineligible to represent the Barcelona senior team in any official matches until January, according to RACI journalist Gerard Romero. Continue reading “WAGUE UNABLE TO PLAY FOR BARCELONA”
Nigerian forward Isaac Success has been rewarded with a fresh long-term contract to keep him at Watford until the summer of 2023. The 22-year-old had struggled to make a notable impression during the backend of the previous season under manager Javi Gracia but the current campaign has fared much better for him with gametime in each of the opening 13 league matches.
Nigeria international Alex Iwobi has indicated that the team are going through a stiffer training regime under the tutelage of new head coach Unai Emery. The Gunners begun the season with back-to-back losses in the Premier League but they have since built up a six-match winning streak across all competitions which has included four-straight Premier League wins.
Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Ahmad Ahmad has asked that the member associations increase their commitment to anti-corruption. He said corruption was one of the major issues bedeviling the work of governing bodies.
West Ham manager David Moyes has admitted that Wigan Athletic were too good for them when they met in the FA Cup. Wigan knocked out the Premier League side in the fourth round of the FA Cup over the weekend, further compounding the woes of the Hammers this term.
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has hailed his side’s thumping 5-0 win over Astana in the first-leg of their Champions League playoff. \
The Hoops had a tough outing against their Kazakhstan counterparts last time around as they drew 1-1 away at Astana before clinching a 2-1 victory at home in the third qualifying round. Rodgers had recently admitted that his team has made significant from the previous year, and their improvement was on show on the playing field as they bagged a convincing 5-0 victory which included a Scott Sinclair brace.
Following the game, Brendan Rodgers said: “We want to go there and win the game. We want to perform well. It was a brilliant performance and now we need to get the job done there. It’s a great demonstration of the work the players have made and progressed over the course of the last season. It was an outstanding team performance, creativity, pressing, really good structure to the team. We scored five goals and missed one or two chances. To do that at this level of competition for a Scottish team, I was really proud of the team.” Continue reading “Brendan Rodgers praises Celtic’s performance against Astana”
Andre Ayew, son of Ghanaian legend Abedi Pele Ayew can be said to have had a decent run at filling the big boots left by his dad.
Impressive outings with the Black Stars of Ghana would soon follow at the senior World Cup hosted in South Africa the following year where they were a Luis Suarez handball and a crossbar away from making history as the first African team to advance to the semifinals.Later on he clinched the BBC African Player of the Year.
However after eight years at the Stade Valedrome, Marseille decided to offload the Ghanaian as they looked for a way back to being a force to be reckoned with as far as French football went. Continue reading “AYEW DIDN’T BLEND IN AT WEST HAM”
Manchester City playmaker Yaya Toure is set to get a year extension after Coach Pep Guardiola had a change of heart, reports in England say.
Guardiola eventually handed the Ivorian a start and he showed his quality as he grabbed a brace in the 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace in November. With time, Toure failed to keep it up and the former Barcelona and Bayern manager suggested that Toure’s fitness levels were low. Continue reading “TOURE TO GET ONE YEAR EXTENSION”
Uli Stielike doesn’t want his team to mess their current situation in terms of WC qualification.
In case it doesn’t happen to be so and South Korea comes three, it will have to play one more round which will actually be a tie against the team finishing no. 3 in the other group.
Stielike hopes that his team escapes that extra round and actually secures the direct qualification with a game or two in hand because it’s never a comfortable situation when it’s down to a do-or-die clash at the end. Continue reading “Uli Stielike asks Team to Continue Performance”