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Cristiano Ronaldo has been labelled as the player of his generation “by far” by Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane, who has snubbed Lionel Messi in the process. The Portuguese and the Argentine have established a duopoly over the Ballon d’Or, winning every award since 2008. However, Zidane believes that Ronaldo is the greatest player of this century by a significant ...

Yesterday was one of the worst nights for Bukom Banku as he was whipped like a baby by Samir Basti. Ahead of the fight, like expected Bukom Banku did all the talking and bragging and held on to his belief of being the African Mayweather. He said he was going to stop Bastie who is a coconut seller. But that ...

ASTON VILLA manager Steve Bruce is hell-bent on securing a permanent deal for Manchester United’s Sam Johnstone. Goalkeeper Johnstone, 24, re-joined Villa on a season-long loan from United in the summer transfer window. He has never made a senior appearance for the Red Devils but still has another year left on his contract. And former United captain Bruce is keen ...

There is an alarming lack of transfer gossip in Monday’s papers. All anyone seems to be interested in is talking about the football that happened over the weekend – as if they think Harry Kane scoring two goals is somehow more exciting than Harry Kane possibly going to Real Madrid for £179million. In fact, it’s almost as if the papers ...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has hit out at the “wrong news” reports which suggest Mesut Ozil has told team-mates of his intention to join Manchester United. Germany playmaker Ozil played a starring role in the Gunners’ 5-2 thumping of Everton on Sunday, putting the visitors ahead with his first goal of the campaign. Rumours earlier surfaced of the 29-year-old’s apparent desire to ...

Bastie Samir is 31 years old and was born on May 19, 1986. Bastie is nicknamed “The Beast” He has an impressive record of knocking out all his opponents in his 15 bouts. He won the African Amateur Championships in the welterweight division in May 2007 He represented Ghana and won silver at the 2007 All-Africa Games boxing welterweight division ...

Egyptians Al Ahly will play Moroccans Wydad Casablanca in this year’s African Champions League final after thrashing Etoile du Sahel 6-2 to win through 7-4 on aggregate. In an extraordinary semi-final in Alexandria, Al Ahly constantly ripped the Tunisians’ defence apart as they booked their place in the final for a record eleventh time. After Ali Maaloul opened the scoring ...

South Africa’s SuperSport United reached an African club final for the first time in their history when beating Club Africain 3-1 in Tunisia to win 4-2 on aggregate. The Pretoria-based side will meet defending champions TP Mazembe next month after the Congolese drew 0-0 against FUS Rabat in Morocco on Saturday to qualify 1-0 on aggregate. With the score level ...

Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly known as World Pele turns 77 today. Born on Wednesday 23 October 1940, Pele is known worldwide as the greatest footballer of all time. He is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics ...

Bastie Samir is no ‘small’ boxer as he is highly regarded highly regarded as a very good boxer. Even the great Floyd Mayweather admitted to his toughness after training with him. Braimah Kamoko, popularly known as Bukom Banku was handed his first professional defeat by US-based Bastie Samir last Saturday. The convincing defeat which came by a seventh round knockout ...