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2017 WAFU Nations Cup: Coach Konadu names final 18-man squad

Black Stars B team coach Maxwell Konadu named his final 18 man-squad ahead of the 2017 West African Football Union tournament(WAFU) on Thursday. The team have been camping since their exit from next year’s CHAN tournament in Kenya and are poised to redeem their image with the WAFU trophy. The tournament will kick start from September 9 and ends on ...

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Barcelona News: Real Madrid president admits he would have signed Lionel Messi

REAL MADRID would have signed Lionel Messi during Florentino Perez’s first term in charge, the president has revealed. Barcelona scooped up Argentine Messi as a 14-year-old after his family move to Catalonia. The forward has developed into one of the football’s greatest ever players, having won eight La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues at Barca. His development also came ...

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Angry Chile fans demand Alexis Sanchez leaves his girlfriend

More than 50,000 Chile fans say they are going to march on the national stadium and demand that Alexis Sanchez breaks up with his girlfriend Mayte Rodriguez. The Arsenal forward has come in for criticism this week over his performances for the national team this week, with a former coach claiming the player looked “fatter than normal”. And in a ...

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TIFF 2017: Borg/McEnroe opens Toronto film festival

This year’s Toronto Film Festival has officially opened – with tennis drama Borg/McEnroe kicking off proceedings. The film tells the story of the famous Wimbledon men’s final of 1980, and stars Shia LaBeouf and Sverrir Gudnason as McEnroe and Borg respectively. Welsh actor Scott Arthur, who plays McEnroe’s tennis partner Peter Fleming in the film, described the pair’s duel as ...

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West Brom news: Tony Pulis explains why Arsenal and Man City failed to sign Jonny Evans

ARSENAL and Manchester City failed to meet West Brom’s valuation for defender Jonny Evans, says manager Tony Pulis. Evans, who was appointed West Brom’s new captain in June, was linked with a number of clubs during the summer. The Northern Ireland international attracted interest from Arsenal and Manchester City towards the end of the window, while Leicester were also said ...

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Ghanaian referee’s life ban upheld

A World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal will be replayed after the match referee was banned for life by Fifa. Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey was banned for “match manipulation”. He awarded a penalty to South Africa in their 2-1 win in November last year for handball but replays showed the ball hit Senegal’s Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly on ...

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