Author: Joan Igbava
Former Spain and Real Madrid Captain Iker Casillas expects to end his career with Porto and is set to extend his contract at the Portuguese club.
One of the UFC’s biggest stars, Brian Ortega has vowed to ‘crush’ Oscar winner Halle Berry to make her an MMA fighter. Brian Ortega, 28, agreed to train Halle Berry for her role as an MMA fighter in the movie Bruised. Berry will make her directorial debut and Ortega has already warned that he will crush the 52-year-old actress, who has already trained with Cris Cyborg. The 28-year-old fighter as of February 25, 2019, he is ranked #2 in the official UFC featherweight rankings and is considered as one of the best Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) practitioners in the organization, he…
Former France international, Arsenal and Manchester City player, Samir Nasri’s contract runs out at the end of the current campaign, but he is unsure whether his long-term future will be at West Ham. Nasri joined West Ham on a six-month deal in January after completing an 18-month doping ban, but injury has restricted him to just six appearances. He said “I got an injury because I wasn’t used to playing week in, week out when I have been out of the game for so long. Now the manager takes his time with me. I have seven games left and I…
Eight-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee in US and chess player, has said that he wants to be the youngest Grandmaster, after winning the chess champion for kindergarten through third grade at the New York state chess championship. Adewumi’s family fled northern Nigeria in 2017, fearing attacks by Boko Haram terrorists on Christians such as themselves. “I don’t want to lose any loved ones,” his father, Kayode Adewumi, told me. So Adewumi, his parents and his older brother arrived in New York City a bit more than a year ago, and a pastor helped steer them to a homeless shelter.…
Hector Bellerin has revealed he feared an injury setback after a spasm in his leg caused the Arsenal star to wake up in pain, concerned that ‘something had happened’. The Spaniard underwent surgery following a season-ending ACL injury against Chelsea in January. Bellerín, In his spare time, completed a marketing diploma, set up a marketing agency with his housemate and invested in property. “I was taught that education is the most important thing,” he recalls. “You need a back-up plan.” It’s a philosophy that will stand him in good stead as he recovers from a knee injury that sees him sidelined for nine…
Sarah Thomas is an American football official and is currently an official for the National Football League (NFL). In 2007, Thomas became the first woman to officiate a major college football game, working a game between two different states. Before that game, another official said, “She came highly recommended by two NFL scouts. She has a good presence and demeanor. I feel like she has the ability and courage to make a call, and the guts to not make one, too.” Thomas was the first woman to officiate a major college football game, the first to officiate a bowl game,…
British boxing legend Frank Bruno admitted he thought he was going to die after being struck down by pneumonia after meeting fans. ‘It was awful – and for a few moments I was fearing the worst’. The former heavyweight before going to the hospital. The indomitable former heavyweight world champion battled through the pain, traveled north to west Yorkshire despite feeling unwell, before eventually giving in to the pain and went to the hospital. He said he was reluctant to go as he did not want to let his fans down. He said. ‘I couldn’t catch my breath and the…
Ivo Karlovic has already made history at Indian Wells as the oldest man to win an ATP Masters 1000 match, and the 40-year-old Croatian doesn’t want to stop there. Karlovic who has slammed an ATP record 13,235 aces, Starting tennis, Funds were short, and so was quality coaching and court time. Karlovic had already decided he preferred tennis to basketball despite attempts to recruit him. He would wait until the evening when the tennis courts in Zagreb were empty and then use the balls he could find and hit serves on his own, sometimes after dark. He did not find…
Travelling the world, skating, surfing, encouraging young women to push boundaries while using her extraordinary ability and profile to raise money for good causes, Sky Brown is already an Icon at 10, young, courageous and fearless, she has set her sights on Tokyo 2020 “I would like to go to the Olympics while I’m young… I don’t really wanna be 16 or something going to the Olympics” Sky declared. Sky Brown, surfs, skateboards and dances, and hopes to become Britain’s youngest ever summer Olympian by appearing at the Tokyo Games next year by then she will be just 12. It…
Nikita Parris scored her first hat-trick for Manchester City since a 5-0 win at home against Yeovil in May 2018. Nikita Parris hat-trick helped Manchester City edge past Reading and extend their lead at the top of the Women’s Super League. Parris, an England regular was part of England’s she believes Cup-winning campaign, and she’s the WSL’s all-time leading goalscorer at just 25. Playing football as a full-time professional was beyond her dreams, She joined a local all-boys team as a 7-year-old, the moment she knew football was something she wanted to pursue. ” that moment I enjoyed it, I…
