obembet: It's the first time in a decade that neither has been nominated for the award
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have been omitted from the nominations for the UEFA Men's Player of the Year awards.
For the first time in 10 years, the two greatest players of the modern game do not appear on the shortlist for the awards, for which Kevin De Bruyne and Robert Lewandowski are considered favourites to win.
Despite their confirmed places in the pantheon of the greats, few could argue with the decision not to nominate Messi and Ronaldo after the 2019/20 season. While Ronaldo did help Juventus to win yet another Serie A title, both Juve and Barcelona were eliminated from the Champions League before the latter stages.
While both Ronaldo and Messi bagged a rather disappointing three goals apiece in eight Champions League matches, Lewandowski scored 15 on his way to helping Bayern Munich win the competition.
The final player on the three-man shortlist is Lewandowski's Munich teammate Manuel Neuer, who enjoyed a stellar run of performances in the truncated knockout stage of the Champions League in Lisbon.
He made a number of key saves in the final against Paris Saint-Germain as his side defeated the Ligue 1 giants 2-0.
CilicMarin: The deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gani Audu, has cast his votes at the polling unit. #Edodecides #Edo2020 #EdoDecides2020
Op, tell that corper guy to observe carefully for running oo. These people got thugs around, immediately the deputy leaves the thugs will start operation. If e happen now na the corper family go suffer am. Cry no de bring dead people back oo.
cook? But I'm not seeing pots, stoves or anything that looks like cooking material, rather, I'm seeing plenty empty take away. Op, you need to be more professional when carrying out your hobby (posting).
phylshan: Some photos have surfaced on the social media showing young female students who decided to drink themselves to stupor after their final WAEC paper.
Is it not Buhari that is their President? What do you expect?
Mr. Shehu, you better shut up that your yeye stinking good for nothing mouth that smells like poo. "Prices of food are coming down". Do you live in my area? Because you're buying those food with stolen money. Thunder fire you
id911: He was like a god in Chelsea but almost every other day, he would grant interview about how he'd dream of playing for Madrid. Now in Madrid shirt, people even remember Lingard before they remember Hazard. He's about killing his career. I wish him luck because I so much like that guy.
Look at Luka Jovic, at such a young age, he ditched other clubs that wanted to sign him and ran to Madrid. Now he's almost finished!
I don't know what's wrong with most footballers, if Hazard doesn't get back to form this coming season, he'll regret that move. About Jovic, i think he can't perform when Bezema is still there.
sibepoc: Yeah. We lost one Hazard, we signed four Hazards.. Now we got players with good ball control and foot works. We'd be a free scoring side now..
As for that Marina lady, she's such a good negotiator. Damn
The transfer ban was a blessing in disguise. Imaging there was no transfer ban, Chelsea would have ended up signing half baked players like Bakayoko, Morata, Barkley etc. Four Hazards indeed
etibaba: As UCL is to Real Madrid, Europa is to Sevilla.
This one na question oo. E resemble the type wey I write for Niger Delta University those days and believe me e sweet die.
As UCL is to Real Madrid, so is Europa to Sevilla, discuss. I go just answer am Real Madrid Na in win Champions League pass and them win am three straight times, the same goes to Sevilla with Europa but dem no win am three straight times sha. Simple, my A is sure
bbbabes: Big Brother Naija housemate, Vee has said she is not sure if her body can handle five more weeks in Big Brother Naija: Lockdown house.
Vee, whose birthday is today, revealed this during a brief discussion with her fellow housemates, Erica and Tolani Baj
Vee revealed to Erica and Tolanibaj that she’s still doubting if she can stay for more 5 weeks in the house. The curious housemates, while trying to raise her hopes up, also asked her the reason for her statement.
Vee then replied that her ‘konji’ keeps getting harder by the day and she doesn’t think she will be able to handle it for more weeks.
"God go call you to come and meet him in heaven"? For phone abi spiritual calling? OBJ relax abeg make I read better news, I no want go further on your matter oo
EmagNig: The West Africa Examincations Council, WAEC have started its Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations, SSSCE today, and a viral video of students of a certain school writing their papers have surfaced on the internet.
In the video, the students of the unnamed school who were well spaced were captured in the examination hall.
The examination, which was earlier scheduled for April but postponed till this time because of the Coronavirus pandemic kicked off today in all the states of the federation and the federal capital territory.
A total of 1, 549,463 candidates, consisting of 786,421 males and 763,042 females from 19, 129 schools are expected to sit the exam nationwide. And the exercise, which will last five weeks covers 76 subjects from which each candidate is expected to write a maximum of eight or nine papers.
WriterNig: Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen who recently signed for Italian Serie A side Napoli, has taken to his twitter page to blast Punch Newspaper for fabricating a false story about him.
Victor Osimhen joined Napoli from Lille last month for a record fee of €70 million which could potentially rise to €80 million.
Following a false story by Punch Newspaper about him with the headline which read, "I want to emulate Maradona at Napoli", Victor Osimhen has now come out to debunk such news stating that he has not granted any interview since his father died in May 2020 and such stories were false.
He warned Punch Newspaper against fabricating fake stories. Part of the post which was shared by Victor Osimhen on his twitter page read,
"I never said such a thing, y’all copy paste journalist just like to fabricate lies, since the passing of my late father I haven’t grant any interview whatsoever, stop this nonsense else na thunder go fire una."
"Eventhough the former senator was said to have died of COVID-19 complications, the crowd of sympathizers in his compound did not observe social distancing". Na those ABOKI dem you de tell this one? Wetin dem sabi
Oga senator, you mean I should use my sweat and vote for them like I don't have sense or what? Let me ask you, the money you didn't sweat for in National Assembly for 4years did you help me with 1naira? Your common sense face disgust me please, common sense is not common abeg
muchroom: The beautiful daughter of Action Governor Zulum all smiles in this video shows how much family means to the Governor. This may also be indicative of the Governor's passion and love for his people in Borno.
It is still early to decide but his words and heart may be no fluke. May God give him the wisdom to lead Borno State out of the war and attacks suffered by indigenes and make them smile just like Beautiful Zara.
Governor Zulum's convoy was recently attacked in which he blamed the Nigerian Military.
I like this man sha. He's got balls. But Oga, don't be too confident because even those shouting "your Excellency your boys de" here can betray you at anytime.