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Icon79:
The first day this draw came out, I predicted that Athleti would eliminate Juventus.

I can't wait for the end of the match tonight to confirm my predictions.


O pari

Oga oya confirm now

More than 25 million fans in China were estimated
to have watched online as Wu Lei become the first
Chinese player to score a goal in one of the big five
European leagues for 3,731 days on Saturday.
Wu joined Espanyol from Shanghai SIPG in January,
and the international star grabbed the third as Los
Periquitos defeated Real Valladolid 3-1 to move
into 11th in La Liga.

A source at PPTV, the official broadcaster of La
Liga in China, told ESPN that the ratings had grown
since the forward's debut against Villarreal drew
around 10 million with the record, until yesterday, at
19.7 million for Wu's first start against Valencia on
Feb. 17.

Saturday's figure was boosted by an early kick-off
which meant the game started at 8 p.m. Beijing
time.

Wu's goal has dominated the Chinese sports media
that has celebrated the first strike in a major league
since Shao Jiayi's goal for Energie Cottbus against
Bayer Leverkusen secured a Bundesliga point in
December 2008.

"I'm moved," Wu, who gave his shirt to a fan at the
stadium after the game, said. "I'm very happy with
how the fans have welcomed me here. I hope I can
keep scoring more goals for them."
"The Wu effect" has been felt off the pitch as well
as on it. Within just two weeks of becoming an
Espanyol player, the shirt of the 2018 Chinese
Super League top scorer became the best-seller at
the club this season.

It was reported last week by official kit
manufacturer Kelme that over 10,000 had been sold
since he joined the club, a figure that is set to rise
following Wu's strike.
"His jersey went out of stock shortly after the
signing was announced about a month ago, and
sales of his jersey keep soaring since then," said
Liu Zejun, the chief marketing officer of Kelme
China, said.

"Wu's move to Espanyol came as a happy surprise
to the company, and we expect that he will keep in
shape."

Chinese fans may have waited years to see one of
their own shine on a major European stage but
Rubi, coach of Espanyol, is impressed with just
how smoothly the 27 year-old has settled in.
"He has adapted quickly," Rubi said. "His
teammates recognise his qualities and he is one of
the team. He understands everything. We are happy
and his teammates have helped him a lot.
"We knew about his qualities when we signed him
and he is a player who finds and uses space very
well. He keeps possession well and is fast and
technically good."

Source: africa.espn.com/football/espanyol/story/3789769/wu-leis-first-espanyol-goal-draws-an-estimated-25-million-fans-in-china?device=featurephone

brotherly:
one of the mistakes of the modern day christians is either to underemphasize or overemphasize the operations of the devil (please read "screwtape letters" by c.s lewis)
Another problem bothers on the gap between what men of God say and what we(hearers) make/understand of their statements. Gbile Akanni is one of the few well respected men of God in the country.
My take on deliverance is that it is wrong for someone to say Christians do not need deliverance, at the same time it is also very wrong for Christians to look at problems only from the deliverance prism.
In the Bible luke 13:11-16 we see a case of a daughter of Abaraham being bound for 18 years and needed special deliverance. From the account of Christ, it was her right to be healed, however the Devil denied her the right. In mark 8:24 a man was still seeing men as trees after just had touched him, he needed a second touch before he could see properly and Jesus did not leave him without warning him not to return to a certain place he was brought from, most likely because of the works of evil there. Christians should know that on a lot of grounds the devil does not play by the rules, hence sometimes to get what is legitimately ours will require special force/operation which I believe is deliverance.

Any real deliverance is supposed to be done by appropriating the word of God, However saying that being born again places one above the need for deliverance is not entirely correct. Here in Africa there are a lot of negative spiritual transactions our forebears entered on our behalf without our knowledge, such cases have to be treated specially

Exactly my thoughts

God bless u sir

Jose Mourinho has described Arsene Wenger as "one of the best football managers in history" after the former Arsenal boss was presented with the lifetime achievement prize at the Laureus World
Sport Awards in Monaco on Monday. Mourinho famously called Wenger a "specialist in
failure" and the pair would often trade verbal blows
during Mourinho's time at Chelsea and Manchester
United in the Premier League.

But their relationship has cooled since Wenger called time on his 22-year spell as manager of Arsenal at the end of last season, with Mourinho describing a "respect" between the two former rivals.

And as Wenger received his lifetime achievement award on Monday night, Mourinho was one of a number of names from the world of football to praise a career which saw the Frenchman manage over 1,000 games, win three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups during his time at Arsenal. Wenger also led Arsenal to a historic, unbeaten Premier League season as they won the title in 2004.

"There were some episodes along the road," Mourinho said on a video message. "I can only speak by myself. I really enjoyed the competition. But the real respect was always there. "He made lots of history in that football club. The nickname is there -- the 'Invincibles.' Amazing.

A coaching philosophy, the almost perfect team. He is one of the best football managers in the history of football." Wenger has been succeeded at Arsenal by Spanish coach Unai Emery, who is coming under criticism during his first season in charge following a
promising start to his time at the Emirates.

Arsenal began 2019 by losing three consecutive Premier League away games before they were beaten 1-0 in the first leg of their Europa League round-of-32 tie against BATE Borisov last week. One of Emery's issues at Arsenal has been the handling of German playmaker Mesut Ozil, who has been in and out of the side this season and has started only once for Arsenal in 2019.

Speaking at the awards, Wenger said Ozil is in a "comfort zone" following the decision to sign the midfielder to a long-term contract last year. "Most of the time now we think when we sign a player for five years we have a good player for five years. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they practice, they play their best. Because they might be in their comfort zone," Wenger said. "He has a contract but the problem is that if you want to buy a player like him you have to spend £100m.

"And to maintain the value of the player, beyond the Ozil case, it is more about the way football is structured.
"To buy players of top, top quality you need £100 million. So the decision you have to make is whether you re-sign the player, who costs us nothing, or do we have the money to buy a new player?"

Paul Scholes has said he expects scrutiny from Jose Mourinho after becoming manager of League Two Oldham.

Former Manchester United midfielder Scholes was
often critical of Mouirnho during the Portuguese
manager's time at Old Trafford while working as a
TV pundit.

"I think he will be watching results," Scholes said when asked about Mourinho, who was given his own TV show on Monday. "Whether he will be watching the games I am not too sure. "That is part of the thing that bugged me a little bit. I wanted to get into it [management] anyway but I have left myself wide open. I have been quite critical.

"I don't think we will get many pundits watching ---[although] if we are losing games I am sure people will be popping up -- [they] can say what they want.

"I have never really understood why players and managers take notice of what pundits say anyway. They are just giving an opinion on the game and get paid for doing so.

"If anyone wants to have a dig at me, I won't be
taking any notice. The only person I answer to is
the owner."

Scholes was named Oldham manager on Monday
following a delay due to his involvement as part-owner of National League club Salford City and will take charge of his first match against Yeovil on Tuesday.

Source: africa.espn.com/football/oldham-athletic/story/3773301/paul-scholes-expects-jose-mourinho-criticism-after-becoming-oldham-manager?device=featurephone

Zloanem:
This shows that Mo Salah is one of the nicest guys in world football. Congratulations on James Milner on the milestone. I remember that when he was released by Manchester City, everyone thought that this is the end for him but he has answered his critics really well.

One of the rare footballers with a lengthy career playing for big clubs

Mauricio Pochettino says Tottenham's bid to beat
wealthier rivals to the Premier League title is similar to Fernando Alonso's attempt to win the Formula One crown with McLaren.

Lewis Hamilton claimed his fifth F1 world title in
2018 driving a Mercedes, while two-time winner
Alonso finished 11th in the drivers' championship in
a McLaren.

Pochettino can see parallels as his Spurs side aim
to overtake second-placed Manchester City on Saturday and close in on leaders Liverpool, pointing out the difference in resources after Tottenham ended a second successive transfer window without
a single signing.

"When you work in football, it's because you want to win," he said. "It's easy to be passionate and shout, 'I'm a winner!' but no, no, no. You can be a winner, but if you don't have the tools to win, it's difficult.
"If you have the car to win and you're good, then you win. If you have the same car as another who is good, then one is going to win and the other is going to lose.

"Take the example of Fernando Alonso and compare with Hamilton. Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton are the best drivers in Formula One. But if you put Hamilton in McLaren last season and Alonso in Mercedes, it's the same history [with where the cars would have finished] -- Hamilton on the bottom and Alonso on the top. That's the reality. Where did Alonso finish last season with McLaren?

"I follow Formula One. I love McLaren, but it wasn't
competitive last season. That's the reality, no? But do you think that's a problem with Alonso or a problem with the car? "It happens also that you have an amazing car but you crash after the first bend. You can crash too with an amazing car and not win. For me, that's a
very good example."

Fernando Llorente could again lead the line against
Newcastle on Saturday, having scored the late winner in Wednesday's 2-1 victory over Watford.

"I was so happy for him because it's not easy to be
behind a player like Harry Kane, waiting for your
opportunity," said Pochettino. "Then when you get the opportunity everyone's expecting you to score three goals every game, and that in every single action you will be right and successful.

"It's not fair sometimes how we judge players who
do not play too much and don't feel that confidence. He's building his confidence all the
time and this is a massive boost for him."
Pochettino used a 3-4-2-1 system in midweek, with
wing-backs pushed forward, and the strategy paid off for the winning goal as Danny Rose delivered the cross for Llorente's header.

However, Pochettino said the system has not been
chosen because of Llorente's aerial threat. "No, we play it with Harry Kane too," said Pochettino. "It's more about the strategy that we want to develop on the pitch, the capacity to be flexible and change the game and find different ways. It's a thing that's so important for us.
"If you have players you can use in different positions then it's important to be flexible and try to provide the team with different tools to perform."

Source: africa.espn.com/football/tottenham-hotspur/story/3764784/tottenhams-pochettino-compares-title-challenge-to-mclarens-dismal-f1-campaign?device=featurephone

Indomie generation have no say in this matter o

For those who didn't watch the news on aljazeera, just follow this link

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/boko-haram-attacks-military-bases-northeast-nigeria-181228061504837.html

The Egyptian was undoubtedly the difference-
maker at Dean Court, but showed real class off
the pitch as well as he gifted his award to his
team-mate
Mohamed Salah, fresh off the back of scoring a
hat-trick against Bournemouth, gave his man-of-
the-match award to James Milner to
commemorate his 500th Premier League
appearance .
Milner was named as the Reds' right-back for
the clash at Dean Court, with Jurgen Klopp
having chosen to bench his only fit orthodox
right-back in Trent Alexander-Arnold ahead of
Tuesday's Champions League match-up with
Napoli at Anfield.
Klopp said before the match that he was
confident the utility man would cope in an
unfamiliar role, going so far as to say Milner
would have played in goal if it meant getting to
500 games .

As the German boss predicted, however, Milner
deputised ably in Alexander-Arnold's absence
and became the second youngest player to hit
the 500-game milestone, just over 100 days
later than Gareth Barry.
And it wasn't just Milner who was singled out
for praise, with Salah having bagged three goals
to take him - since the start of last season -
within just one strike of Barcelona star Lionel
Messi.
Indeed, his opener was his 40th goal in his
52nd league appearance for Liverpool, the
fastest a player has ever reached that milestone
in a Reds shirt.
Still, the Egyptian refused to take his man of
the match award whilst being interviewed
alongside Milner after the match, telling Sky
Sports: "No, no. Five hundred games. I have to
congratulate [Milner] on his amazing career, he
deserves it today.

"He's had an amazing career so I hope we're
going to win something this season together.
But no, I won't take it."
Liverpool, currently enjoying their best start to a
domestic season having accrued 42 points from
their opening 16 games, moved top of the
Premier League with the victory, one point
ahead of Manchester City who face Chelsea
later on Saturday.
Next up for Klopp's Reds is Napoli's visit to
Anfield, with a win required for the hosts if they
are to have any hope of making it to the knock-
out rounds of the Champions League.

Source: https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/salah-gives-his-man-of-the-match-award-to-milner-to/f3vycfj2xmo61r446pc65w7ls

The investigative body looking into the cause of
the crash have released their report detailing the
events which took place prior to a fatal accident
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch have
revealed the cause of the helicopter crash that
claimed the lives of five people, including
Leicester City chairman and owner Vichai
Srivaddhanaprabha.
The helicopter picked Srivaddhanaprabha up in
the centre of the pitch at Leicester's King Power
Stadium after their game against West Ham, as
it often did, and took off before losing control
shortly after and crashing down in a car park
just outside the stadium before becoming
engulfed in flames.
The other four victims were Srivaddhanaprabha's
staff Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare,
as well as pilot Eric Swaffer and his partner
Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

The report explains that a pin had come loose
due to a "build-up of black grease", causing the
pilot's pedals to become unable to control the
tail rotor, leading to a loss of control of the
aircraft and subsequent crash.
"The tail rotor actuator control shaft became
disconnected from the actuator lever
mechanism," the report stated .
"The disconnection stopped the feedback
mechanism for the tail rotor actuator from
operating and the tail rotor actuator from
responding to yaw control inputs.
"This resulted in an uncontrollable right yaw.
"Sufficient force and torque had been applied to
the castellated nut on the actuator end of the
control shaft to friction weld it to the pin carrier
and to shear the installed split pin.
"Whilst the shaft was rotating and a yaw control
input was applied, the shaft 'unscrewed' from
the nut, disconnecting the shaft from the
actuator level mechanism, and causing the nut
to become welded to the pin carrier."
The incident was met with an outpouring of
grief from around the world and there were
several moving tributes to the memory of a
chairman who took Leicester to the unlikeliest
of Premier League titles at odds of 5000/1 in
2016.

Source: https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/cause-of-leicester-city-helicopter-crash-revealed-by/yjxvl3rv4wzd1az0pz7x2jkvt

At 45 of years of age, the goalkeeper is keen to
continue with his playing career and not hang
his boots anytime soon.

Ismaily goalkeeper Essam El Hadary has
downplayed reports of his retirement from
football with his latest post on social media.
His agent, Mohamed Sheha had told local
media that El Hadary would end everything football after his club's return from their continental assignment in Burundi.

But the former Pharaohs goalkeeper has
dismissed such claims with a training video of
himself to prove his fitness backed with some
words.

El Hadary called time on his international career
in August after featuring in Egypt's
underwhelming campaign in Russia as the
World Cup oldest player with his appearance
against Saudi Arabia in their last Group A game.
The experienced shot-stopper opted out of
Ismaily travelling squad that lost 1-0 to Le
Messager FC in Wednesday’s Caf Champions
League preliminary round and he is set to
discuss his future with the Egyptian top-flight
club.

The 45-year-old only joined the Ismailia Stadium
outfit in July after a brief stint at Al-Taawoun.
In a professional career that has spanned over
25 years, the ex-Zamalek and Wadi Degla
player won eight Egyptian Premier League titles,
four Egypt Cups, four Egyptian Super Cups, four
CAF Champions League titles, three CAF Super
Cups, one Arab Club Champions Cup and two
Arab Super Cups during his 12-year stint at Al
Ahly.

Source: https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/the-journey-is-still-long-egypt-legend-essam-el-hadary-dismisses-/ck2sou2xbqgg18kah1fo7sb68

OkaNaUbe:
Even the soldier's grave will be the State prison's property till 5000 years? Haba!

After then, his bones will now be set free
Lols

Auxtin85:



Yes I dropped a comment before reading that was ridiculous.

He deserved it jare and even more

GOFRONT:
Haba....5'000 years
Ayamnotu understanding

Read the news again you will understand

bitcoin215:
What sin has he committed that warranted that.

He massacred hundreds of people

Auxtin85:
How will that judge feel whenever he remembers he sentenced a man to 5000 yrs imprisonment. He has also sentenced his own conscience to jail

My brother, the judge didn't do anything wrong. Read the news again

Guatemalan court has sentenced a former soldier to
5,160 years in prison for a massacre during one of the
worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil
war. The court on Wednesday sentenced Santos Lopez
to 30 years for each of the 171 killings, or 5,130 years
in total. He received an additional 30 years in jail
linked to the killing of a surviving child, but the
sentences are symbolic because Guatemala's
maximum prison term is 50 years.
Lopez was a member of a counterinsurgency force
trained by the United States, called Kaibil. He was
arrested in the US and deported in 2016. According to
the investigation, Lopez belonged to a patrol that
committed the massacre in December 1982 in Dos
Erres, on the border with Mexico .

mysticwarrior:
don't mind them after the will be claiming they have never lost a battle.

And claiming world power up and down

Symbolic 5,160-year prison term is handed down for a massacre during Guatemala's civil war.

A Guatemalan court has sentenced a former soldier to 5,160 years in prison for a massacre during one of the worst atrocities of the Central American nation's civil war. The court on Wednesday sentenced Santos Lopez to 30 years for each of the 171 killings, or 5,130 years in total. He received an additional 30 years in jail
linked to the killing of a surviving child, but the sentences are symbolic because Guatemala's maximum prison term is 50 years.

Lopez was a member of a counterinsurgency force trained by the United States, called Kaibil. He was
arrested in the US and deported in 2016. According to the investigation, Lopez belonged to a patrol that committed the massacre in December 1982 in Dos
Erres, on the border with Mexico .

The soldiers were trying to recover about 20 rifles stolen by rebels during an earlier ambush which killed 19 troops.

'Finding Oscar'

The story of Dos Erres was told in the 2017 documentary "Finding Oscar", executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, which recounts the search for another boy whose life was spared and who was then raised by one of the soldiers. A handful of other "Kaibiles" have been convicted, each receiving a sentence of more than 6,000 years in prison. Three others convicted for the slaughter were jailed in the US for immigration violations. Several others are believed to reside in the US.

The massacre occurred during the rule of Efrain Rios Montt, who himself was indicted on charges of genocide and died in April. Montt allegedly ordered the murders of 1,771 indigenous Ixil-Maya people during his short reign in 1982-83, which came at the height of the 36-year civil war.

According to the United Nations, about 200,000 people died or were made to disappear during Guatemala's war, which ended in 1996.

Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/guatemala-sentences-soldier-5000-years-prison-181122083925821.html

US dropped two million tonnes of bombs on Laos at height of Vietnam War. Why are cluster munitions still killing?

Vientiane - This year's Thanksgiving celebration marks 50 years since the American military embarked on the
biggest bombing campaign in history, decimating the small Southeast Asian country of Laos by dropping more than two million tonnes of bombs on it at the height of the Vietnam War.

Half a century on, innocent lives are still being lost as the country struggles with the leftovers of the conflict. On Thanksgiving Day in November 1968, the United States escalated its war against North Vietnam in Laos.

Then-US President Lyndon B Johnson had ordered traditional turkey dinners to be helicoptered in to US troops who were secretly deployed in the quiet, landlocked country to sever the North Vietnamese supply lines that ran through the east.

At the same time, the US began dropping millions of tonnes of bombs - they "fell like rain" on the supply lines in Laos, a network of paths and tracks known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and most of the east of the country. That hugely redoubled effort to shut down the trail saw a planeload of bombs dropped on Laos every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years.

Now, some 80 million unexploded bombs and air-dropped cluster munitions left over continue to maim
and kill Laotian men, women and children.

Manixia Thor is a Laotian operations manager at the UK-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG), one of several
NGOs trying to clear the land of unexploded ordnance (UXO). "About 75 percent of injuries from cluster munitions involve children," she tells Al Jazeera, referring to the tennis-ball sized fragmentation bomblets that have acquired the local name "bombies".
They were dropped in their millions on Laos. Thousands of children have been killed or severely wounded by them, and Thor says they are "everywhere".

Unexploded cluster bombs are found in particularly large numbers in the northern province of Xiengkhouang, where Thor works, and where MAG
focuses its survey and clearance efforts. They look attractive to children; anything shaped like a ball is tempting for a child in a country as poor as Laos, where toys and other amusements are few and far between.

Calum Gibbs, a 26-year-old Scot working in the southern province of Savannakhet for HALO Trust, a UK-
based NGO focused on bomb clearance, says data suggests there have been 50,000 casualties since the war ended. Although the number of deaths has
fallen from the 200 to 300 annually in the 1990s to around 50 today, all uncleared land is potentially
dangerous.

Gibbs believes education is critical to avoiding death and injury among young children. "We get out and try and educate as much as possible, and show pictures of these things to kids," says Gibbs. "They have a UXO song, and the kids sing it so they remember that UXO are dangerous."

But it's not just children at risk. Most of Laos' predominantly rural population are involved in rice cultivation, and even on land that has been tilled, the
"bombies" are a threat.

Two decades ago in Xiengkhouang Province, unexploded cluster bombs lay scattered on the ground in rice fields, and farmers were careful to sow only the land around them. Many have since been destroyed by clearance teams, but others lurk beneath the surface.
"In some places where people plant rice, every year some pieces will come up," Thor says. "It still happens, even on cultivated land."

On forested land, the problem is worse, and as more vegetation is cleared to grow rice for Laos' expanding
population, more people are at risk. "In January 2000, about 4km from Phonsavan, a villager was digging and
found a big bomb," says Kongkeo Phanthaborivat, an entrepreneur from the Xiengkhouang provincial capital of Phonsavan. "They tried to open it by themselves, and the bomb exploded. Two people were killed at the same time."

And it's not only humans that trigger the explosives, but also animals. Despite the challenges, however, some
say the battle against the bombs is being won, albeit at a slow pace. By one estimate, it will be 200 years before Laos is safe again. Survey and clearance efforts received a boost when former US President Barack
Obama, in his final months in office, pledged to double his country's $45m, three-year contribution to dealing with the bombs.

But some are not convinced of funding promises that can be cut short by the stroke of a pen in Washington.
One staff member at a bomb disposal NGO, who requested anonymity, said one of the organisation's US
government donors has set unrealistic targets for land clearance, which if not met, could result in the withdrawal of its funding.

A local man, who also requested anonymity citing political sensitivities, says that at least 40 percent of donors' cash disappears into the pockets of "corrupt" officials and foreign NGO managers. But Thor, the NGO worker, holds on to optimism.

"The situation with UXO in Xiengkhouang is going to get a lot better because Obama gave more money for survey and clearance, and in the near future we're going to get some money from DFID [the UK's Department
for International Development] as well," she says. "We need as many resources as we can get. There's no limit."

Source : https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/laotians-killed-50-years-bombing-campaign-181121000620903.html

TheBlessedMAN:
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(Lb)Baba rahman.....(cb)Cahill....(cb)Mertesacker...(rb)Ivanovic.


..............(gk)Loris Karius..........



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This team will beat any team from anywhere.

In ur dreams bro

Amaechi5:
Mr nice guy indeed.

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Obainoneandonly:
only a failure recognizes a failure.. the two of dem are the same..they always end up demolishing the house they built

Birds of the same feather (failure)