Cristiano Ronaldo has surpassed Jimmy Greaves as the most prolific player to grace Europe’s top five leagues after scoring his 367th goal in Real Madrid’s match at Celta Vigo.
Wikki Tourists FC have introduced Bala Nikyu and Mbas Mangud as Technical Adviser and Chief Coach respectively ahead of this weekend’s games as the second half of the NPFL season resumes.
Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has been rushed to the hospital with serious injuries after being involved in a collision with a car while cycling.
The 35-year-old was riding with friends close to Rimini on Wednesday when he was hit by a Peugeot, smashing into the windscreen of the vehicle before landing on the road.
Following the collision he was taken to a local hospital with severe head and chest trauma and remains in a serious condition.
The American is famous for narrowly piping Valentino Rossi to the 2006 MotoGP title, ending the Italian’s half-decade dominance of the sport.
Hayden had featured every year in grand prix motorcycle racing’s premier class between 2003 and 2016, winning three races with Honda during that time.
Dirk Kuyt has decided to hang up his playing boots, ending an illustrious career that culminated in him captaining Feyenoord to Sunday’s Eredivisie title.
The 36-year-old shared his decision with the club’s senior management and head coach Giovanni van Bronckhorst on Wednesday morning.
Kuyt will train with the squad through to the end of the week and then take up another role at Feyenoord.
Dirk Kuyt’s decision brings to an end an impressive playing career spanning 19 years.
He made his first-team debut in the Eredivisie for FC Utrecht in 1998-1999.
Five seasons later he moved to Feyenoord, where he was top scorer at De Kuip every season for three years.
He went to play at Liverpool for six seasons before spending a further three at Fenerbahçe.
Kuyt also made 104 international appearances, including the 2010 World Cup final.
Famous American rapper Curtis James Jackson III popularly known as 50 cent is set to headline AS Monaco’s end of season party which has been scheduled to hold this weekend.
AS Monaco are looking forward to toasting their title win unless they lose their last two games of the season against St-Etienne and Rennes.
Second-placed Paris Saint-Germain will have to pull off a ‘mission impossible’ to be able to deny Monaco the Ligue 1 title which they haven’t won since 2000.
AS Monaco having played thirty six games this season are three points clear of their rivals PSG.
The reigning Champions will have to beat Caen with at least 18-goals in their favour due to their inferior goal difference to stand a chance at the title.
Akwa United Football Club have signed five new players to fortify the team for the second stanza of the 2016/2017 Nigeria Professional Football League NPFL season.
Terminally-ill Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery is not well enough to make the trip to Stamford Bridge this weekend to make his side’s (Sunderland) final Premier League match against Chelsea.
Calls for Bradley, who celebrated his sixth birthday on Wednesday, to present Chelsea with the Premier League trophy after the final game of the season was initiated by blues fan Gary Burgess who posted the suggestion on Facebook, and was picked up on Twitter by a Premier League fanpage, garnering over 22,000 retweets for the idea.
Bradley’s family took to Twitter to confirm that Chelsea had been in touch with the birthday boy to invite him down to London for Sunday, but that unfortunately he was not well enough to make the trip.
‘Chelsea invited Brad down on Sunday but unfortunately he is not well enough to go. Thank you for everyone for thinking of him,’ said the Twitter post.
Bradley, whose battle with the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma has touched people around the world, has been inundated with Birthday messages from wellwishers, including one from his hero, Jermain Defoe.
🎂 Happy Birthday to my best mate @Bradleysfight. Hope you have a special day and I’ll see you later this week…❤ #HappyBirthdayBrad pic.twitter.com/ugokGgdMS9
— Jermain Defoe (@IAmJermainDefoe) May 17, 2017
cesc Fabregas in an interview with Cadena Ser has revealed what has set Chelsea manager Antonio Conte apart from the likes of Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola this season having played under all three of the highly-decorated managers.
Though under the Italian, Fabregas has been a bit part player but was full of praise for his current coach.
‘Conte is something else,’ Fabregas said. ‘We have run a lot this season, lots of gym work and sprints. We did very well, the team was phenomenal physically. There is a lot of pressure to go up and down (the pitch).
‘He is the coach who worked the most tactically, more than with (Jose) Mourinho and (Pep) Guardiola. ‘We have to take into account that this year we have not had to play in the Champions League, something that will not happen next season. ‘Conte is meticulous. Until everything is done, training is not finished.’
Issac Success and Uche Agbo will welcome a new Coach to Vicarage road next season after the Club announced it will part ways with Italian Boss, Walter Mazzarri and his entire back room at the end of this season.
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