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Mohamed Salah is dreaming of scoring the winning goal for Liverpool in the Champions League final on Saturday as he looks to banish last season’s nightmare. Liverpool lost 3-1 to Real Madrid last year but will contest back-to-back Champions League final when they face Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid on Saturday. Salah – who has scored 26 goals ...

Britain’s Anthony Joshua wants a “man-to-man” meeting with Deontay Wilder to set up an undisputed world heavyweight title fight – if he beats Andy Ruiz Jr. WBA, IBF and WBO champion Joshua, 29, takes on Ruiz in New York on Saturday. On Tuesday night, WBC champion Wilder announced a rematch with Cuba’s Luis Ortiz, delaying any contest with Joshua for ...

Striker Wilfried Bony has been included in an Ivory Coast’s 27-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations while influential player Gervinho was dropped. The Qatar-based striker is returning to the side for the first time since the 2017 edition of the tournament in Gabon as coach Ibrahim Kamara named him in the provisional list. The 30-year-old, who was ...

Former President John Mahama had plans to strip Asamoah Gyan off captaincy and make Andre Dede Ayew the team’s captain, former GFA spokesperson Randy Abbey has revealed. Speaking on Joy FM’s News File Program, Randy Abbey revealed the former president wanted to vacate Gyan of his captaincy duties, making Gyan suspect his captaincy was under threat. “I will make a ...

Ahead of the Europa League final against Arsenal, the former Liverpool captain has criticised the Blues and their manager Maurizio Sarri Graeme Souness has launched a withering attack on Chelsea’s ‘lightweight’ midfield ahead of their Europa League final against Arsenal in Baku on Wednesday. The former Liverpool captain has suggested the midfield trio of Jorginho, Ross Barkley and Mateo Kovacic ...

The Argentine’s performances have always gained attention from the world’s biggest stars – even renowned politicians have had their say Former United States president Barrack Obama has said Argentina have failed to win the World Cup in recent times, despite having the superlative Lionel Messi in their ranks, because they do not play as a team. The 57-year-old gave a ...

A Lagos State Prosecutor, Mrs Y. A. Pitan, has told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos that former Super Eagles captain, Austin Okocha, has not liquidated the alleged tax debt he owed the state. Pitan told Justice Adebayo Akintoye on Tuesday that Okocha had visited the Lagos Internal Revenue Service office but failed to settle the 2017 income tax. “The ...

Unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says he will only feel he has “made it” in boxing if he captures Deontay Wilder’s WBC title. The 29-year-old faces Andy Ruiz Jr on Saturday and told BBC Sport he does not feel “burnt out” as a fight week begins for the first time in a decade. “I’ve never been in a fight ...

Communication Director of Hearts of Oak Kwame Opare Addo, says his side has not requested for a foreign referee to officiate their semi-final game against arch-rivals Asante Kotoko in the Special Competition. The game is scheduled to come off on June 16, 2019 at the Accra Sports Stadium. Hearts of Oak emerged winners of Zone B while Asante Kotoko placed ...

Christian Atsu – Black Stars midfielder has pledged support for the team’s new captain Andre Dede Ayew. Atsu in an interview with the GNA Sports said, the Black Stars players would put all external issues behind them and respect their new captain as the leader to lead them to glory in the 2019 African Cup of Nation (AFCON) in Egypt ...