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Victory for Nigeria at the CAF awards gala in Marrakech as Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala won the major prizes on the night, making the country the first-ever to produce winners of both CAF Men's and Women's Best Players in the same year. Victor Osimhen crowned Africa's Best For the first time since Kanu Nwankwo 24 years ago, a Nigerian player has won the most prestigious individual accolade in African football with striker Victor Osimhen beating Mohamed Salah and Achraf Hakimi to the CAF Men's Player of the Year award. Osimhen, who enjoyed a sensational year with Napoli, delivering their first Scudetto in 33years and helping them to a first-ever quarter final place in the UEFA Champions League was always front-runner for the award, moreso after Riyad Mahrez failed to make the final three. Aside his conquests with Napoli, the 24-year-old striker was also unplayable in the AFCON qualifiers, scoring ten goals in six games and finishing as top scorer of the qualificatio

Seems the storm is never getting over for Mauricio Pochettino's side as they sufferer a 4-1 defeat to an impressive Eddie Howe's Newcastle United on Saturday evening. Headed into the game on the back of a 4-Star performance at the Tottenham stadium and the stellar performance against defending champions Manchester City, The blues thought they could have a proper redemption against the Magpies. Alexandar Isak drew the first blood at the 13th minute, then Raheem Sterling responded with a spectacular free kick to draw the visitors level just 10 minutes after going behind. He became the first Chelsea player to score a free-kick in the Premier League since Mason Mount in October 2022 against Aston Villa. At the start of the second half, Chelsea had hoped to hit the front foot but things went the other way as Jamal Lascelles gave the home team the lead for the second time in the match, heading home an Anthony Gordon's cross from the left to make it 2-1. There was no respite for C

They've created a rivalry of their own, and albeit Manchester City has been more consistent, Liverpool have surely returned to the good days since the start of the season. Now first and second in the league, City and Liverpool resume hostility in the early kickoff on Saturday. In recent times, the meetings between these two have been the most anticipated in the Premier League not only because of the club but the rivalry that has also risen between the manager of each team. Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp have come a long way and have both become two of the best in the job. Their rivalry started far back decades ago when Pep Guardiola joined Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga while Klopp was in charge at Dortmund. Aside from the two managers, the players in these teams also stand out in English football. In the last six seasons, winners of the Player of the Season in the Premier League have come from either club. Till date, they still maintain the status as even so far this campaign, Al

Gavi has torn his Anterior cruciate ligaments in Spain's final group game of the European Championship qualifiers against Georgia. It was a game only for the culture as Spain had already secured a place in the finals, and even securing top spot was not so risky because they have the advantage over Scotland, who eventually failed to beat Norway. Gavi, who had started six of the seven games before last night was again in the starting XI, making him the only player to feature in all of the country's eight game of the qualification campaign. At 19, he has been exposed to too much and unnecessary appearances whilst occupying a position where Spain has lot of alternatives, many of them even better players yet have not enjoyed minutes with the National Team. Martin Zubimendi, Oihan Sancet, Aleix Garcia and Mikel Merino were all named on the bench against Georgia, while Rodrigo Riquelme, who made his debut as a substitute against Cyprus could have also been handed a first start. Howeve

Brazil coach Fernando Diniz has backed his decision to invite Gabriel Jesus to the national team camp for the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers despite amidst recovery from injury. A lot must have gone on behind the scenes between Diniz and Mikel Arteta due to the decision to call up the striker, who has sit out of Arsenal's five previous games before the international break. Jesus picked up a hamstring injury in the final minutes of Arsenal's UEFA Champions League win away in Seville and Arteta never declared a date he is expected to return. Speaking ahead of the club's 5-0 win over Sheffield United late October, Arteta said he does not know when the Brazilian will return as he had once predicted in the past but things went wrong. When asked if Jesus should play in Brazil's upcoming World Cup Qualifiers: ‘I don’t know. I’m going to talk to the doctors and Gabriel because he didn’t do any training with us.  ‘He’s far from working with the team, but it’s an internal com

Former Ghanaian winger Raphael Dwamena has lost his life on Saturday due to heart failure during a match between his Albanian club, KS Egnatia and Partizani. Raphael Dwamena dies aged 28 while playing for his Albanian club KS Egnatia.  The 28-year-old collapsed in the 24th minute of the match and was rushed the hospital, where he eventually gave up the ghost en route. Dwamena had been a very vital player for Egnatia this season having joined on a free transfer in December 2022. In ten league games he has played a direct involvement in as many goals, nine goals and one assist. Raphael Dwamena’s battles with heart conditions In the summer of 2017, Dwamena was set to join Brighton in the Championship from Austrian club FC Zurich but failed a medical after the club detected a serious heart conditions hence did not push through with the deal. Just over two years later in October 2019, he was on loan at Real Zaragoza from Levante and Doctors recommended that he retires due to the severeness