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Former Super Eagles star Daniel Amokachi has contributed his own little quota in the fight against coronavirus as he donated some foodstuffs to Kaduna residents amid lockdown. The 47-year-old Super Eagles star who was named Nigeria’s Football Ambassador by the presidency earlier this year distributed relief materials to about 1100 families in Kaduna. Since the coronavirus pandemic was discovered in Nigeria, the country has discovered over 7500 cases and registered a total number of 249 deaths as at 27th of May 2020. The government of Nigeria declared a lock-down in some part of the country to help control the spread…

All English Premier League (EPL) clubs have unanimously voted for a resumption of the league, they also agreed that they will start contact training as ‘Project Restart’ moves to phase two. Players will be able to “train as a group and engage in tackling while minimising unnecessary close contact,” a statement said. the EPL are now discussing on how to resume the season proper when “conditions allow”, though, the English Premier League (EPL) players and staff will continue to be tested twice a week for the coronavirus. So far eight people have tested positive after a total of 1,744 tests…

Morecambe and former Motherwell player Christian Mbulu has died, the 23-year-old defender who began his professional career at Millwall and also represented Brentwood, Braintree and Crewe died recently. Christian Mbulu is a London-born player, he moved to Morecambe in January, after a short spell at Crewe in the English League Two division. In a statement released recently, Morecambe described Christian Mbulu as an “extremely popular member of the squad” and said, “news of his sudden and untimely passing has been a shock to us all”. The club also said: “His loss will be painfully felt by all who had the…

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is reportedly prepared to sell three players in the next transfer market, he is set to offload three centre-halves defenders when the summer window opens. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta who joined the North London side in December 2019 succeeding Unai Emery who was sacked after registering a string of poor results. Mikel Arteta is desperate to bring back the good old days to Arsenal, he wants to make the Gunnars team a major league contender and possibly a squad that can challenge for Champions League. Mikel Arteta is just half-a-year into his contract with the club…

Liverpool and England captain Jordan Henderson has said lifting the trophy without fans is no fun at all, he further said playing at Anfield and lifting the Premier League trophy without any fans will be “pretty strange”. Liverpool is currently topping the league and hopes to lift the 2019/20 English Premier League trophy. The Reds are left with just six points which can come from two wins from the last nine games for them to lift the England top-flight title since 1990. The league is hopeful of a June restart having been suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic. Liverpool…

Haiti football president Mr Yves Jean-Bart has been suspended from his post by football governing body Fifa. Fifa suspended the president of the Haitian Football Federation after allegations emerged that he force female teenage players to have sex with him before they can gain access to the various national league clubs in Haiti. Mr Yves Jean-Bart allegedly threatened the girls with losing their spot at the national training centre if they refuse to comply or reveal it to anyone. the Haiti football president, however, denied all the allegations levelled against him although the country’s Police are still investigating the allegations.…

Manchester United pair Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba will be available for selection when the Premier League season resumes, this was made known by the club’s manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Both Rashford and midfielder Pogba were both out with long-term injuries when the league was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic in March. Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba have now returned to training as they were seen in their small group training with the rest of the United squad last week. According to the manager, he said: “They’re looking good.” “They’ve joined training now and they’ve done everything the other…

Bournemouth goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale says he was one of two players who tested positive for coronavirus in the latest round of Premier League tests. The English Premier League has conducted a total of 996 tests which includes players and club staff, in the second round of testing last week. The first round of testing included the positive tests of Watford defender Adrian Mariappa and Burnley’s assistant manager Ian Woan. They reported that some players tested positive to the coronavirus of which Watford defender was one of the players and it was also reported that two people in Bournemouth camp tested positive to the…

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been reported to have sustained a calf injury during their Monday morning training, the report was given by the club. Reports have it that the 39-year-old Swedish international may not be able to start the opening games with AC Milan when the league resume because of the injury. in a statement released by AC Milan about Zlatan Ibrahimovic says: “We will know the entity of the problem [then].” The Former Manchester United striker Ibrahimovic rejoined Milan on a six-month deal in December and has since scored four goals in 10 appearances. Following the current…

Bayern Munich head manager Hansi Flick has come out to speak ahead of the Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund clash, he said the match is not the German Bundesliga 2019/20 title decider. Hansi Flick says Tuesday’s top-of-the-table game against second-placed Borussia Dortmund is not a Bundesliga title decider. A win for leaders Bayern at the Allianz Arena would move them seven points clear of Borussia Dortmund with six games left to play. However, head coach Hansik Flick is not seeing the whole point gap as clear league divider as he said: “Regardless of the result, nothing will be decided.” Borussia…

Just days after the sudden death of the father of Nigerian forward Victor Osimhen another sad news hits Africa as Joseph Bouasse of Cameroon dies of a heart attack. According to the report on UK Sun, Joseph Bouasse died on Sunday night, the 24th day of May. Joseph Bouasse is just 21-years of age and he he plays his club football with Italian top league side AS Roma. The young Cameroonian moved to Italy at the teenage age of 16 with the hopes of him getting his career better by playing football to the highest level. Before Joseph joined AS…

Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City have joined the list 86 clubs in European who are using their social media to help find missing children. The English Premier League current league leaders Liverpool and Manchester United are not the only the Premier League clubs who are doing this good work. Liverpool and Manchester United are not the only English teams, the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham are all also doing this great work, in Scotland Celtic and Rangers are also doing it. The ‘Football Cares’ initiative on International Missing Children’s Day sees clubs share videos of missing children all…

As resumption of the league is currently under discussion in the English Premier League and Spanish La Liga, transfer news is another thing football lovers are looking at. The summer transfer window will be open at the end of June and clubs are to sign in new players with other players looking to renew their contract as well. Arsenal Transfer News Arsenal has joined the race to sign Brazilian and Barcelona 27-year-old midfielder Philippe Coutinho. They are already in talks with the player’s agent, the Brazilian spent the season on loan at Bayern Munich but the Bundesliga champions will not pay the £105m required to…

English Championship side Hull City have confirmed two new cases of coronavirus in their camp, two people at the club have tested positive for coronavirus. The English Football League earlier said there were two positive cases out of more than 1,000 players and staff tested at the 24 second-tier clubs. This was made known in a statement, in the statement, Hull City said the pair were asymptomatic and feeling no ill effects, but would self-isolate for seven days in line with EFL guidelines. The two will still be tested again at a later date to further confirm the virus in…

Nigerian International Ahmed Musa is currently wanted by Turkish Super Lig Champions Galatasaray, they are interested in signing the Super Eagles captain who is currently playing for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia Professional League. The 28-year-old joined the Saudi Arabian side two years back after a failed spell at English Premiership side Leicester City. According to reports in the Turkish media, Galatasaray is already making plans to land the Nigerian in the next transfer window, they want to add the pacy of the winger to their squad. Ahmed Musa is a very experienced player, he can from both flanks and…

France and former Real Madrid player Zinedine Zidane has broken the lockdown rules in Spain, the Frenchman who is currently Real Madrid boss is likely to be punished by the Spanish government for the act. Zinedine Zidane reportedly broke lockdown rules as he paid a visit to his second home in the outskirt of the city. The Madrid manager like others was mandated to stay in their current locations becuaus of the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown rule has been in place for more than eight weeks now due to the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic across Europe. Spain is one of…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has given the notice that the Spanish La Liga can resume but all games will be played behind closed doors. The date given by the Prime Minister to resume is the 8 of June. Meanwhile, Portugal’s Primeira Liga is also set to resume on the 3rd of June, with Portimonense against Gil Vicente and Famalicao hosting leaders Porto. Should they resume on the said date they will be the second league in Europe to resume after German Bundesliga. The league’s president Javier Tebas had earlier said he had hoped the Spanish La Liga would restart…

Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says he has no intention of ever coming back to the Emirate Stadium on any capacity. The Frenchman left Arsenal in May 2018 after spending 22 years with the North London side. The manager was succeded by Unai Emery who sacked early this year before Mikel Arteta was named the new manager of Arsenal. Arsene Wenger is the only manager to have won the Premier League unbeaten in a season since the start of the English Premier League. Liverpool came close to breaking the record but Watford ended their unbeaten run after they beat The…

An unnamed Bournemouth player has tested positive to coronavirus ahead of the league resumption which comes up on the 12th of June with all things working as planned. The Bournemouth player is one of two new coronavirus cases to have been found in the latest round of Premier League tests taking the overall total to eight now. The Cherries said the player’s identity will not be disclosed but will place the player in seven days self-isolation. The other positive cases were recorded in different clubs with Watford having two cases and the players are not named except for Jamaican defender…

Former Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho seems to be the hottest player in the transfer market. The likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and Leicester City have contacted

Ex-Liverpool and Senegal striker El-Hadji Diouf has picked Austin Jay Jay Okocha over Chelsea and Ivorian striker Didier Drogba and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o. according to the former Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers striker, he said Jay Jay Okacha is the most talented player in African. El-Hadji Diouf and Austin Jay Jay Okocha were teammates at Bolton Wanderers between 2004 and 2006 English Premier League season. El-Hadji Diouf said even though Jay-Jay Okocha never won the African player of the year award, he said no one can argue that he is the most talented African footballer of all-time. The Senegalese football…