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Senegalese football captain, Sadio Mane, has won the first Socrates Award at this year’s Ballon d’Or. The Ballon d’Or organisers added a humanitarian prize to this year’s ceremony named for Socrates, the Brazil midfielder, who also held a medical degree. “The Socrates Prize will identify the best social initiative by committed champions,” a statement from the France Football magazine said ...

Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil football star Neymar and eight others went on trial in Barcelona yesterday charged with fraud and corruption over the player’s transfer to Barcelona from Santos in 2013. Neymar, who arrived in the city early Monday, spent about two hours at the Barcelona courthouse before he was excused by the judge from the rest of the day’s ...

Barcelona player, Robert Lewandowski, on Monday won the Gerd Müller award at the Ballon d’Or in Paris. The Gerd Müller Trophy goes to the top scorer of the season combining goals both for club and country. Meanwhile, Real Madrid’s goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, won the Best Goalkeeper award called the Yachine Trophy. Credit: Twitter| francefootball Lands For Sale Share on: WhatsApp

Real Madrid and France forward Karim Benzema has won the Ballon d’Or – awarded to the best footballer of the year – for the first time. Benzema scored 44 goals in 46 games as he helped Real win the Champions League and La Liga in 2021-22. Lionel Messi (seven) and Cristiano Ronaldo (five) had won the award on 12 of ...

World 100m Hurdles record holder Tobi Amusan has been nominated for this year’s Women’s World Athlete of the Year. The list of nominees was released by World Athletics on Wednesday, October 12. The nominated athletes were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of World Athletics. Lands For Sale Their performances covered ...

Former Ghana Football Association Executive Council member Fred Pappoe believes the Black Stars can excel at the upcoming World Cup. Pappoe has backed the team to disprove the doubters in Qatar, where they will face Portugal, South Korea, and Uruguay in the group stage. Given their recent form, Ghana are the least likely of the four teams in Group H ...

When Erling Haaland left Borussia Dortmund many thought it would be a while before the club found another star. But in no time at all, Jude Bellingham has shown he is well on the path towards greatness. On a night when Erling Haaland watched from the bench as Manchester City failed to beat Copenhagen in Denmark, Jude Bellingham reminded Dortmund ...

Ghana legend Abdul Razak says the constant changing of coaches and transferring players after every season is a major contributing factor on why Ghanaian clubs are not performing in Africa. Asante Kotoko have been eliminated from the CAF Champions League whilst Hearts of Oak are on the brink of elimination after losing 3-0 to Malian side Bamako in the first ...

The 2022/ 23 Malta Guinness Women’s Premier League season kick started on Friday, October 7, and in the Southern Zone after a dissapoiting season last year, Hasaacas Ladies kicked off the new season on a good note as they recorded their first victory of the season by beating Berry Ladies 1-0 . A 79th minute strike from Doreen Copson was ...

Former deputy chairman of the National Chapters Committee (NCC) of Accra Hearts of Oak, Aziz Haruna Futtah, has launched a scathing attack on leaders of the Phobians for their poor handling of the Club. He describes them as the worst-ever management he has seen at Hearts of Oak, for hiring former assistant coach of Asante Kotoko, David Ocloo as a ...