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Real Sociedad are set to become the first team in Spain to allow their players to return to training since the suspension of their league due to the coronavirus outbreak. Real Sociedad have given series of precautionary measures that will be used as they plan to resume to training which comes up on Tuesday. According to them they said players will be allowed to train but they will train in reduced groups, and the medical staff will be present as well to oversee the training. Real Sociedad said their players will be allowed to train with a maximum of two…

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Formal Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish who was admitted in the hospital because he tested positive to coronavirus has been dischrged. The 69-year-old former Liverpool forward was admitted to hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics. He was routinely checked for coronavirus and tested positive despite showing no symptoms. The former Celtic and Scotland forward was given immediate care and he has soon massive improvement. He was discharged today and he said: “People may think my name got me the best of care but every patient in the NHS gets the best of care.” “As a nation,…

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England international and Tottenham Hotspur skipper Harry Kane has penned down a new contract with the North London side. The 26-years English man is yet to win a trophy with the club and people has been advising him to leave to the club to a club with more ambitious goals. Harry Kane has not had the best of performance in the 2019/20 English Premier League season, he has so far scored 11 EPL goals and 6 Champions League goals. Kane has been in injury for some time now. He chose to pen down a new contract with the club until…

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Gadon International Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been advised by the soccer president of his country to leave Arsenal becasuse of trophy drought. The former Durtmund striker finished joint-top scorer in the English Premier last season with 22 goals. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s contract is set to expire at the end of the 2020-21 season and it dose not look like he will sign a new contract with Arsenal. According to Gabon soccer president Pierre Alain Mounguengui he said: “Right now, he’s at Arsenal, and he’s won nothing here, so it’s a collective failing.” “I don’t want to say that Arsenal isn’t ambitious, but…

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Ex Liverpool player Sir Kenny Dalglish was admitted in the hospital on Wednesday for treatment of an infection which required intravenous antibiotics. Test was carried out on him and it was discovered that he has contracted the virus, which has stopped all sporting activities in Europe. The 69-year-old former Liverpool and Celtic forward is currently being treated. Kenny Dalglish is a Scottish man won the Scottish league title four times at Celtic before moving to Liverpool in 1977. At Liverpool he won eight league Championships as a player and manager and three European Cups. Dalglish also won the Premier League…

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The English Premier League (EPL) should resume already is what chief executive of the League Management Association Richard Bevan is saying. He told BBC Sport the league can resume and be concluded, all they need do is just to test all the players before play. According to Richard Bevan he said “tests must be made available first” to NHS workers and patients. “Once that’s happened, by all means let’s access it in sport,” he concluded. Since the spread of the coronavirus pandemic all sporting activities in England and the EPL was postponed. Recently Richard Bevan criticised the English Football League…

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The current La Liga title holder Barcelona have six of their board members resigned yesterday due to bad management according to them. The six board members sent a joint letter to the club which expressed their concern over the financial implications of the coronavirus crisis for the club. in the latter they criticised the handling of a scandal in February when the club were forced to deny hiring a firm to attack its own players on social media. The were demanding for an election for a new presidential elections to be conducted in the club which shows their discomfort with the…

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EPL captains and players have in the Europe have all come out alongside many top-flight players posted a joint statement on social media on Wednesday endorsing the idea to collectively collaborate with each other and donate to help raise fund for NHS. The voluntary donation will be given to charity and also help fight coronavirus. EPL captains recently agreed to make donations and also the players agreed to take 30% pay cut in order to protect jobs of the non players in their various clubs. Southampton became the first Premier League club to announce their players will defer part of…

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Former Leeds United player England defender Norman Hunter has tested positive to coronavirus, he is currently being treated in hospital after testing positive to the virus. The news was confirmed by his former club Leeds United recently. The player by name Norman Hunter is 76 years old. Norman Hunter played a total of 726 games with Lead United, he stayed 15 years at the Elland Road side and won two league titles with the club. He also played in the 1975 European Cup final which lost to German giant Bayern Munich. He was also part of Sir Alf Ramsey’s England…

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Away from the coronavirus pandemic is the talk of the transfer news, the transfer window is already discussed and Uefa has approved an extension for the transfer deadline. In the transfer news players who their contract should have been terminated by the end of this month has been given an extension because of the impact of coronavirus pandemic on the football calendar. Barcelona Transfer News The first person we will be looking at is six times world best player Lionel Messi who is rumored to be in talks with a possible to Italian side Inter Milan. The Barcelona and Argentina captain,…

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The English Football League season can start and be concluded in the space of 56 days but this only be when the league finally resumes. For now it is still very obvious that the league cant resume because of continues rise in the case of coronavirus in the Europa. Amid the coronavirus pandemic which has paused all social activities across the world football fans especially in the United Kingdon cant to see the end of the virus so all social activities can go back to normal. It is assumed that the English Football League will not take complete two months…

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The English Premier League players have agreed and took a “collective initiative” to help generate funds for the National Health Service (NHS). Their aim is to generate funds and distribute to the National Health Service because they the health workers needs it the most. The initiative is named #PlayersTogether and it was set up to help those who consistently fighting for the coronavirus pandemic which has paused all movement in the country. They are also partnering with NHS Charities Together which is called (NHSCT). The development was well welcomed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock. Hancock had previously asked players to take…

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Real Madrid players, coaching staffs and all members of the directors have agreed to take 10 to 20% pay cut as the case of coronavirus still loom the streets of Spain. All sporting activities has been long shotdown becuase of the rapid spread of the COVID 19 virus, the country is among the countries with the highest rate of the virus. Real Madrid as a team came to conclude that the decision to reduce pay was “taken by players, coaches and employees” to avoid “traumatic measures that affect the rest of the workers”. The virus entered the club through their…

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Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho was seen holding a personal training session with French International Tanguy Ndombele on Hadley Common, also Davinson Sanchez and Ryan Sessegnon were pictured running together through the same London park. Ivorian international Serge Aurier posted a video on his Instagram page which shows himself and one other person jogging. The English Premier League has since been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic and players has been told to stay inside as the whole state on lockdown it will be punishable for anyone to be seen outside. Tottenham been repremended of the lockdown law which two EPL…

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The English Premier League (EPL) stand to lose one billion euros if the league dose not take an absolute definition to end the league now. This statement was made by the English Premier League chief executive Richard Masters, he further stressed that “further losses” if the situation “deepens and extends” beyond this season. Greg Clark, the Football Association chairman has said: “Many communities could lose the clubs at their heart with little chance of resurrection.” Almost the clubs in the EPL with exception of Manchester City have placed their non-playing staff on temporary leave, while talks continue over the salaries…

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Former Fifa executive Nicolas Leoz and Ricardo Teira has been charged of bribery, they are both accused of taking bribes in return for voting for Russia and Qatar to host the World Cup. This accusisation is in accordance to the US prosecutors who have been investigating the case for some time now. FBI has being following the case which is a football corrupt activity. Recently a new indictment was revealed in the US District Court and the document claimed several former Fifa executive committee members “were offered or received bribes in connection with their votes”. The Department of Justice made…

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The Spanish La Liga could be back in action on or before 28 of May, the league has been in suspension for over a month now because of the coronavirus. Presently no Spanish club has played any competitive game since 11th of March, when Atletico Madrid knocked defending champions Liverpool out of Champions League. An official in the La Liga by the Javier Tebas reportedly said training will not return until emergency measures have been put in place and that will take until 26th of April. He explained that La Liga clubs could lose up to 1bn euros if the…

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Man City of England who is currently in the second place position have said they will not be furloughing any of their non-playing staff due to the coronavirus outbreak. With this movement, Man City becomes the first English Premier League team to carry out such policy. Before now, five top-flight Premier League sides have already decided to place non-playing staff on furlough, which means the government will pay 80 percent of their wages while they are not working. Tottenham and Liverpool, together made more than £150m profit according to their recent accounts. With this accounts people has been crictizing the…

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UEFA Champions League and Europa League could be suspended if coronavirus cases and its restrictions last until September, Alesksander Ceferin said this in a statement. The UEFA president made this recently in a statement but he also affirms that playing behind closed doors would be preferred to abandoning games. The UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches are currently under suspension due to the rapid outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic until further notice. UEFA President Ceferin said in a statement recently that: “We can’t play it out in September or October.” “The fact is that we really don’t know much,”…

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has lost his mom to coronavirus.,the news of her death came this afternoon. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss has been receiving condolence messages from different players and clubs as well. Pep Guardiola who is just 49, donated money recently for the fight against the pandemic, he donated 1m euros (£920,000) to help fight the outbreak. The death of his mon came as a shock although she is old and elderly. Everyone associated with the club where has at one point managed sends their most heartfelt sympathy. Manchester City which is currently managing has…

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