Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid to win the Champions League and secure their sixth European Cup to make them the outright third-most successful club in the history of the competition.
The delegation of Nigeria’s U20 team arrived in the city of Lodz on Saturday afternoon, ahead of Monday’s FIFA U20 World Cup Round of 16 clash with fellow African flagbearers Senegal.
There was a Nigerian feel to Chelsea’s UEFA Europa League’s triumph on Thursday, albeit Maurizio Sarri’s team had no Nigerian player in the 23-man squad.
Junior Lokosa won the CAF Champions League in his first season with Esperance de Tunis, but it came in the most bizarre circumstances after the game was abruptly ended following a protest by Wydad Casablanca.
Nigeria Football legend, Kanu Nwankwo has mourn the passing of his former Arsenal teammates Jose Antonio Reyes, Says he’s devastated to hear the sad news.
Reyes‘ death was confirmed on Twitter by his boyhood club Sevilla, for whom Reyes played nearly 250 games.
Reyes was member of Arsenal’s invincible team of 2004 that had the likes of Thiery Henry, Fredrick Ljunberg, Patrick Vieira and Kanu Nwankwo to name a few.
The four times Europa League winner was said to have died from traffic collision near his hometown along with his 23 year old cousin.
Kanu described the late left footed forward as a perfect gentleman and pray for his departed soul to rest in peace.
“I am devastated by this sad news, Reyes was a gentleman. May his soul rest in peace. @arsenal #arsenal #coyg #premierleague #spain #london #rip“. Kanu wrote on his social media account.
Former Arsenal star José Antonio Reyes has been killed in a traffic accident in his hometown of Utrera, Sevilla FC confirmed the news of his death on Saturday morning.
The incident happened at 11:40 hours this morning when the car in which Reyes was travelling in veered off the A-376 motorway from de Seville to Utrera and caught fire.
Reyes was 20 when he moved to Arsenal in January 2004 in a deal worth £17.5m and in his third appearance for the club, scored twice to knock Chelsea out of the FA Cup, including a screamer from outside the box.
He was a member of the ‘Invincible’ side that remained unbeaten for the 2003/04 season and eventually moved back to Spain, initially on loan to Real Madrid in 2006, before joining Atletico Madrid permanently in 2007.
He joined Sevilla for a second stint in 2012 and remained there until 2016. Since then Reyes has played for Espanyol, Córdoba, Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard and, most recently, Extremadura.
Former Nigeria stars Nwankwo Kanu and Daniel Amokachi have been named by CAF as Ambassadors for the forthcoming AFCON in Egypt.
Kanu and Amokachi have featured for Nigeria at the AFCON as well as the World Cup.
Other former stars to serve as Ambassadors at the AFCON are Samuel Eto’o Fils of Cameroon as well as Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure from Cote d’Ivoire.
The 2019 AFCON will be staged between June 21 and July 20 in Egypt.
The Super Eagles are drawn in a first round group that has Burundi, Guinea and Madagascar.
They open their campaign on June 22 against debutants Burundi.
Tottenham and Liverpool will face off in an all-English Champions League final in Madrid on Saturday night – and plenty of people have been giving their predictions ahead of the game.
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Super Falcons star Asisat Oshoala has joined Barcelona Femeni on a permanent basis after signing a three years contract.
The Flying Eagles of Nigeria will take on Senegal in the round of 16 of the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.
The Paul Aigbogun side picked one of the four available tickets forbest losers after winning one of their three group game, including a loss and a draw to finish third in the Group with four points .
They will now face a Senegalese side that finished top of Group A with two wins and a draw from three games.
At the 2007 edition in Canada, Brown Ideye led Nigerian side defeated Zambia 2-1 in the Round of 16 before bowing out in the quarter-finals.
The match against Senegal will now take place at Lodz Stadium. Kick-off is 7:30pm Nigerian time on Monday.