Nigeria Super Eagles beat Argentina in the 1996 Olympic Final. The Scoreline was 3-2, Golas from Babayaro Goal 28‘
Amokachi Goal 74‘Amuneke Goal ensure Nigeria wins a remarkable and unforgettable Gold Medal.

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Germany’s cup semi-finals, scheduled for late next month, have been postponed in a further sign that top-flight football will not resume for some time due to the coronavirus crisis.

Holders Bayern Munich was to host Eintracht Frankfurt on April 21 and fourth-tier Saarbrucken to welcome Bayer Leverkusen the following day but the German FA (DFB) said on Friday that the games were suspended to a yet to be determined date.

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Cristiano Ronaldo and football agent Jorge Mendes joined forces on Tuesday to donate lifesaving equipment to Portuguese hospitals struggling to treat patients with coronavirus.

The two will donate equipment for two wards at Lisbon’s Santa Maria hospital, providing the wards with 10 beds each, ventilators, heart monitors, infusion pumps and syringes, the hospital said in a statement.

Cristiano Ronaldo donates equipment to hospitals in Portugal fighting Coronavirus

In Porto, the country’s second-biggest city, the Portuguese pair will equip one ward at the Santo Antonio hospital with 15 intensive care beds, much-needed ventilators, monitors and other equipment. The three wards will be named after the men.

“We want to thank Ronaldo and Mendes for the initiative, which is so useful at the time the country needs everyone so much,” Paulo Barbosa, president of Santo Antonio’s administrative council, said in a statement.

Though Portugal has only reported 2,362 coronavirus cases and 29 deaths, far fewer than in Italy and Spain, the country’s health system is already under pressure.

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Atalanta goalkeeper Marco Sportiello has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the number of confirmed cases among players in Italy’s top soccer league Serie A to 15 on Tuesday.

“Marco is currently asymptomatic,” said a club statement.

Atalanta goalkeeper Marco Sportiello has tested positive for coronavirus

“The preventative quarantine, which Marco and all the other first-team players were placed in, will end on March 27.”

Italy is Europe’s worst-affected country from the coronavirus outbreak and the national death toll rose to 6,820 on


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La Liga postponed indefinitely as coronavirus affects Over 33000 people

The Spanish soccer calendar has been postponed until further notice, La Liga and the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) said in a joint statement on Monday.

All organized soccer in Spain had been postponed for two weeks due to the spread of the coronavirus but was initially due to resume on April 3.

The statement said a joint commission between the two bodies had agreed to postpone all professional soccer competitions until the Spanish government considered they could start again “without creating any health risk”.

RFEF chief Luis Rubiales last week ruled out canceling the current season, insisting the campaign would resume once the health crisis was under control.

“Both the RFEF and LaLiga wish to express our greatest public gratitude to all those who are dedicating their best efforts to provide essential services to the Spanish people,” added the statement.

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OLYMPICS : Canada became the first country to pull out of Tokyo 2020 Games Amidst Covid-19

Canada became the first country to pull out of the Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus pandemic and Australia told its athletes to prepare for an Olympics next year as Japan and the IOC flagged the prospect of a postponement for the first time.

Concerns over holding the Games in July grew over the weekend with major stakeholders such as U.S. Track and Field and UK Athletics, along with some national Olympic committees, calling for a delay because of the pandemic.


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Manchester United to sign Coutinho ahead of Liverpool.

Manchester United are reportedly set to jump ahead of Liverpool and sign Philippe Coutinho from Barcelona this summer.

Philippe Coutinho left Liverpool to join FC Barcelona, In January 2018, Coutinho signed for Barcelona for a club-record fee reportedly worth €160 million.

His stay in Barcelona wasn’t fruitful, during the 2019 UEFA champions league against Liverpool, while he was in Barcelona, he was dealt within Anfield, where Liverpool came from behind to edge Barcelona.

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List of Football Players That Tested Positive To Coronavirus.

Coronavirus, as we all know, is no longer news, it has become world pandemic. The Spread of the virus has affected the world of sports. sports like Football, Golf, rugby, Olympic.

EPL, UEFA Champions League, Italian league, Euro 2020, Copa America have all been postponed due to the spread of the virus, and it has really affected the world of football especially before the postponement of the game, so many football matches were played behind closed doors.

Spectators were not allowed to come to the stadium, while their team is playing.

SPortyleagues takes a look at the updated lists of players infected with coronavirus around the globe.

List of coronavirus cases in football

Daniele Rugani, Juventus


Daniele Rugani is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a center-back for Serie A club Juventus and the Italy national team. He won the Serie A title during the first season with the club. He is on the road to recovery and the world of football wishes him a fast recovery.

Blaise Matuidi, Juventus

Blaise Matuidi is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus and the France national team. Matuidi began his football career playing for amateur clubs in the Île-de-France region, such as US Fontenay-sous-Bois and CO Vincennois. He recently posted “I am positive, I am strong, Morale is good”, this shows the french international is recovering fast, and the world of Football wishes him a quick recovery.



Manolo Gabbiadini, Sampdoria

Manolo Gabbiadini is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sampdoria. He is a former Italy under-20 and under-21 international. Gabbiadini has represented the senior Italian national team since 2012. He is the second Serie A player to test positive to coronavirus.

Omar Colley, Sampdoria

The History of AFCON(Africa Cup Of Nations)
INTRODUCTION
The 33rd AFCON games will hold in Cameroon this year, but speculations are on as at when the games will hold, due to coronavirus pandemic.

As the game is approaching, Sportyleagues will take a look at the history of AFCON, and how it came into existence.

Every two years AFCON brings 24 teams from different countries together to participate in the game. It is a way of uniting countries from West Africa, South Africa, East Africa, North Africa, and Central Africa together through the spirit of football.



HISTORY OF AFCON

AFCON games, also known as Total Africa Cup Of Nations, started since 1957, and it is chaired by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). It started majorly as Men’s International football, where teams from different countries come together after booking their space through qualifier matches.

When the game started in 1957, there were just three countries that participated in the games, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan.

South Africa was expected to be part of the teams that contested that year, but due to the apartheid regime, it failed to approve a multi-racial team, and they were left out of the tournament.

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The President of the Italian football federation (FIGC), Gabriele Gravina, said that the 2019/20 Italian League could be spread over two seasons in order to bring the league to a conclusion.

All sports events in Italy have been put on hold until April 3 due to the coronavirus outbreak, putting the completion of the Italian football season in doubt.

At an FIGC meeting on March 10, the board acknowledged that the option of holding playoffs to decide the champion and relegated teams were being considered, as well as declaring the current standings as final or not declaring a champion at all. But with Italy in total shutdown to fight the spread of the coronavirus


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Why Lionel Messi is the best football player.

(CNN) – Leading sports scientist Simon Brundish gives a knowing look when asked who is the best footballer in the world. “While he’s alive, there’s only Lionel Messi,” Brundish says. “If you’re saying anybody else is the best player in the world, Messi’s had a broken leg for a year, or he’s dead, or you’re lying.”


Given Messi is widely considered among the greatest players to ever play the game, that might not seem like too startling an insight. But Brundish has a set of statistics he believes sufficiently ends any debate on the matter.
“Currently Messi has a goal or assist every 48 minutes,” Brundish says. “Bearing in mind that every game is almost 95 minutes long (when injury time is included) that’s two almost every single game.”

Few can come close to these feats — although Cristiano Ronaldo has long had a comparable, and sometimes superior, goal scoring rate. More recently, the likes of Luis Suarez, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Mohamed Salah have also all excelled in scoring for their respective club and national teams.


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Italy’s football federation will ask for the Euro 2020 tournament to be postponed over the coronavirus outbreak.

“We will propose to UEFA the delay of the European championship,” Gabriele Gravina told the SportMediaset television channel, adding that, like Serie A, other leagues around Europe were also on hold.

Italy Football Federation To Postpone Euro 2020 Over The Coronavirus Outbreak.

“We will propose to UEFA the delay of the European championship,” Gabriele Gravina told the SportMediaset television channel, adding that, like Serie A, other leagues around Europe were also on hold.

“We will try to get to the end of this championship because it is fairer and more correct after the many investments and sacrifices of our clubs.”

Top-flight football across Europe has ground to a halt as a result of the spread of the coronavirus, with national and continental club competitions suspended or postponed.

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The Lisbon accommodation has denied that it has been transformed into a location to help the sick.
Reports that Cristiano Ronaldo’s hotel was poised to turn into a makeshift infirmary for those with coronavirus are off the mark, according to the Lisbon institution.

Spanish publication Marca claimed that the former Real Madrid star was ready to have one of his two hotels turned into hospitals to help combat the pandemic, which has infected over 160,000 people across the globe and has now killed over 6,000.

The infection is in its early stages in the five-time Ballon d’Or winner’s homeland of Portugal, where cases jumped by 76 up to 245 in the last day.

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Afcon 2021 qualifiers: NFF plans for Super Eagles amid coronavirus.

The country’s football authority has gotten a private flight to fly invited players from their respective bases in Europe.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick said they are communicating with the country’s Ministry of Health and the Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) ahead of the Super Eagles’ upcoming fixtures against Sierra Leone.

Super Eagles will host Sierra Leone for the first leg of their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixture on March 27 before traveling to Freetown for the return leg four days later.

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La Liga suspended for two weeks as Real Madrid go into quarantine.

The Spanish club announced they had taken the precautionary measure after a basketball player at the club contracted the coronavirus, with the decision made as the basketball and football teams share facilities in Ciudad Real Madrid.


The next two rounds of matches in the top two leagues were expected to take place without spectators on the advice of the national health ministry but a full-suspension has now been enforced.

“Given the circumstances known this morning, referring to the quarantine established at Real Madrid and the


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