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Super Eagles’ outfit to the 2018 World Cup in Russia has been rated number five best shirt worn by football teams in the last 52 years.

According to the result of a survey by BBC Sports released on Thursday, Nigeria’s home kits, which were also used at the Egypt 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, was picked by voters as the fifth best jerseys with a nine per cent vote.

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Italian Serie A champions, Juventus, has announced the result of midfielder Blaise Matuidi, and defender Daniele Rugani’s second Coronavirus (COVID-19) tests.

Juventus, in a statement on its official website on Wednesday, disclosed that the follow-up tests returned negative.

“Rugani and Matuidi underwent, as per protocol, a double-check with diagnostic tests for the coronavirus,” the club’s statement read.

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Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, believes that staging the 2022 World Cup away from Qatar is still a possibility amid fresh charges of bribery in the bidding process.

The U.S. Department of Justice issued an indictment last week charging that Russia and Qatar paid bribes to secure votes in the process that saw them awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
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Arsenal players have turned down the club’s latest proposal to slash their wages during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Goal reports.

There have been in talks with senior officials over the last fortnight to reach an agreement.

Several options have been discussed, but so far none have been met with enough approval to be put into action.

Over the weekend, the idea of a 12.5% wage cut was put forward, with Arsenal trying to lessen the financial blow the club might suffer if the season is completed or finished behind closed doors.
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Super Eagles and Lille Forward Victor Osimhen has admitted that he turned down a move to join the Arsene Wenger led arsenal in the early stage of his European football.



The 21-year-old first came to Europe in January 2016 when he joined Wolfsburg off the back of an impressive Under 17 World Cup.

“I spoke with Arsene Wenger after the tournament ended and he wanted me to come to Arsenal,” he told the Independent. “I had a lot of options. Barcelona, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Juventus and the rest.

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Manchester United boss, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has a summer wish list with fourteen names on it.

It is unlikely the Red Devils will make more than three or four signings.

But they are being very thorough on the players they target, as they are aware the market can be very fluid.

The Evening Standard suggests that Jadon Sancho and Jack Grealish are among those names.
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Arsenal head coach, Mikel Arteta, says he is “planning two or three different scenarios” in the transfer market.

Arteta replaced Unai Emery in December, after spending three years as Pep Guardiola’s understudy at Manchester City.

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Former Manchester United defender, Wes Brown, has urged the club to make a transfer move for Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho, Leicester City’s James Maddison, and Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish this summer.

Brown believes the three players would all do great things for the Old Trafford club.

Sancho, Maddison, and Grealish had all been linked with a move to Man United in the past.

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Borussia Dortmund captain, Marco Reus, has advised his teammate, Jadon Sancho, against leaving the club amid interest from Manchester United.

Sancho had drawn the interest of Man United in the past few days.

Man United are willing to offer the England youngster the no.7 shirt in a bid to lure him to join the Old Trafford club this summer.

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The Bundesliga are aiming to become the first major European league to resume action – with a return set for early May amid the coronavirus outbreak.

All 18 teams in the German Bundesliga have recommenced training, while following health guidelines.

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Manchester United Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had it say on people victimizing the players during this period Solskjaer insists it is unfair to call footballers out during the coronavirus pandemic, during an exclusive sit-down interview with he said this on an online interview with Garry Neville and Geoff Shreeves.

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accountantben:
I don't blame Sanchez but rather Mourinho who brought this good for nothing player to Manutd. I think the best way to go is to terminate the contract and pay him all his entitlement. His continue presence in this club will bring about dressing room issues. You can't imagine someone who is not playing but is earning more than those that are playing. It's better we get rid of him.

Mourinho is a desperate coach..Once he has a target like this he will go extra mile to get him.He only has one year left on his contract i believe man utd should stick with him for the remaining one year atleast for squad depth then get rid of him after

Yaya Toure has blown his chance of a Samba swansong – after his wife told him she didn’t want to live in Rio.

The former Manchester City midfielder was set to sign for Brazilian club Botafogo before performing a dramatic double U-turn that ended with the South Americans pulling the plug on the deal.

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Germany Football League clubs have all resumed training for the first time since the season was suspended on the outcome of the coronavirus pandemics in Germany.

Majority of the teams including Bayern Munich returned to training in “small groups” on Monday after the German Football League’s (DFL) recommendation to stop group practice expired.

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LaLiga president, Javier Tebas, has said that a failure to complete the season could end up costing their clubs €1billion in lost TV money, gate receipts, and sponsorship.

All the major leagues in Europe, including the LaLiga, Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 are on hold due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the continent.

“If we do not resume, the economic impact on Spanish clubs, including money from European competitions, would be worth around €1bn,” Tebas told the media, as reported by ESPN.
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Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has named Trent Alexander-Arnold as his best ‘signing’ since he took over the club.

Klopp was named Reds boss in 2015.

Since then he has signed players like Sadio Mane, Mohammed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, etc.

Overall, it has been a mix of big-money and relative bargains.


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Manchester United striker Alexis Sanchez is reluctant to give up his galactic wages to leave Old Trafford this summer.

The London Evening Standard says the 31-year-old is reluctant to take a pay cut just to secure a move, despite it being made clear he is not in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s plans.

Sanchez still has two more years to run on a contract worth around £450,000-a-week, forcing Old Trafford’s hierarchy to weigh up their options as to how to handle their highest-paid player.

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Former Serbian player and manager Radomir Antic – who managed all of Real Madrid, Atletico de Madrid and Barcelona – has passed away, aged 71.
Following a 17-year playing career, including a two-year stint at Real Zaragoza in Spain, Antic enjoyed a glittering coaching career across a number of clubs.

Antic was most well-known for his stint at Atletico – split into three stints between 1995 and 2000 – when he won the double of La Liga and the Copa del Rey in the 1995/96 campaign.
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Since being snapped up from Southampton in January 2018, the Netherlands international has enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence on Merseyside.

A £75 million ($92m) transfer package was required to secure his services, but an immediate return has been offered on that investment.

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Former Nigeria international, Dosu Joseph, believes Gernot Rohr has not done enough for the Super Eagles and has set a benchmark for him.

The German tactician has been in charge of the West Africans since 2016 and led the side to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where they were eliminated at the group stage.

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Barcelona are completely unfazed by the words of former Inter president Massimo Moratti, who claimed that signing Leo Messi was not out of the question for the Italian club.

Moratti believes that landing the Argentine isn’t an impossible goal for the Serie A side and that he could be included as part of a deal that would see compatriot Lautaro Martinez move in the opposite direction.

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Nigeria senior women’s stars, including Barcelona’s Asisat Oshoala, Shanghai’s Francisca Ordega, Eskilstuna United’s Ngozi Okobi joined their colleagues in taking part in the Bop Daddy challenge.

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Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski and his wife Anna have donated €1million (£924,000) to try to help with the Coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 death toll has now passed 11,000 worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases has passed 275,000.
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