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  • Madrid wins against Man-city make them win tight

    The Real Madrid win yesterday made their win tight. Both teams have met on 13 different occasions in the Champions League. Both teams played 5 draws and 4 matches, winning against each other.

    Here are their stages of meeting.

    2012/13 match day 5 group d

    First leg Madrid. 3 vs 2 man city

    Second leg-Man City 1 Man Madrid.

    2015/16 semifinal

    First leg-Man Madrid 0 vs Madrid 0

    Second. Leg. Madrid 1 vs 0 Man City.

    2019 /20 round of 16

    First leg Madrid 1 vs 2 Man City

    Second leg. Man City 2 vs 1 Madrid.

    2021/22 semifinal

    First leg : Man City 4 vs Madrid 3

    Second leg : Madrid 3 vs 1 Man City.

    2022/23 semifinal

    First leg: Madrid 1 vs 1 man city

    Second leg : Mancity 4 vs Madrid 0.

    2023/24 quarter-final

    First leg :Madrid 3 vs 3 man-city

    Second leg : Man-city 1 City vs1 Madrid

    Penalties were used to resolve it, which favored Madrid 4 -3.

    2024/25 Knockout Round

    first leg

  • Ahead of Cote d’Ivoire 2025 AFCON u20, Flying Eagles head coach called 30 players to camp for Egypt friendlies.

    Ahead of the Cup of Nations u20, which will be played in Cote d’Ivoire from April 26 to May 18, 2025. According to Team Administrator, Aliyu Lawal Ibrahim, The Flying Eagles’ Head Coach Aliyu Zubairu has called 30 players to camp in Abuja to select the best players to represent Nigeria as the Nigerian U-20 are going to play a doubles friendly match against Egyptian u20 on February 25 and 27.

    The seven-time AFCON winners in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2005, 2011, and 2015, and two FIFA World Cup runners, Saudi Arabia 89 against Portugal and the Netherlands 2005 against Argentina, will clash with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo. Both countries met six times. They both won two matches each and drew two times.

    The players in the Abuja camp from goalkeepers are Ifeanyi Harcourt (Sporting Lagos); Light Emerenonye (Diamond Academy) and Abubakar Rufai (Mavlon FC), as well as defenders Adamu Maigari (El-Kanemi Warriors); Daniel Bameyi (Bayelsa United); Kenneth Igbokwe (Enugu Rangers); Haruna Aliyu (Wikki Tourists); Musa Adamu (Wireless FC); Shamsudeen Muhammad (Mavlon FC); Ibrahim Abdullahi; Shamsudeen Ishaq (Grassrunner FC); and Steven Jolomi (Mavlon FC).

    Midfielders expected in the camp are Raphael Oyebanji (Shuffle Select FC); Mohammed Ibrahim (Niger Tornadoes); Kizito Opara (Campus Academy); Alabi Sulaiman Jojo (El-Kanemi Warriors); Sulaiman Abubakar (Diamond Academy); Shafiu Adamu (Wikki Tourists); and Cletus Simon (Mavlon FC), while the forwards are Bidemi Amole (Real Sapphire Academy); Clinton Japhet (Enyimba FC); Matthew Chukwusa (Morack Academy); Nasiru Salihu (El-Kanemi Warriors); Divine Olisha (Fostar Academy); Jerry Salami (Aspire Academy); Oluwaseyi Akinfenwa (Real Sapphire Academy); Shola Adelami (Ikorodu City); Abdulrahaman Ishaq (Sport Supply Academy); Ezekiel Anthony (Aspire Academy); and Sodiq Olalekan Adewunmi (Jaguar Sports FC).

  • Oyo football will take relief as Dream team football club invests in talent identification with two weeks u19 scouting tournament program.

    The director of Dreams football club, Ambassador Anyanwu Wilfred Chukwudi (high chief aka ji ugo 1) has a structural approach to strengthening Oyo State football development by organizing a strengthening scouting tournament program within all local governments in Oyo state. The initiative is focused on enhancing the development of youth talent and marketing them.

    The Dream team has produced an array of top talents in European countries and just last summer this lovely football club sponsored about 7 players to Egypt and Europe without collecting anything from players, sons of soil from one of the local clubs in Ibadan are part of them, which is master Adeleye Kayode Joseph from cornerstone fc.

    The dream has a network around the European world and African clubs such as Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal and Egypt. Also, the club are currently participating in the Nigeria league NLO 1 division in imo state.

  • Lewandowski ranked as one of Barcelona’s highest goal scorers.

    Robert Lewandowski has scored 90 goals for Barcelona in 👕 128 games with 🎯 20 assists leading him to place 23rd in the list of highest goalscorers for Barcelona.

    While Neymar jr is found in 17th position with 105 goals

  • First Touch in football

    Your first Touch set the Tone
    Why?
    Your first touch isn’t just technique, but it’s a statement.
    It increases the player’s ability to maintain possession.
    It improves their speed of play.
    It dictated everything about the player.
    First touch accuracy speaks a lot about players.
    It gives players a football narrative.

    • 🔑 Every great play starts with a world-class first touch.

      What is the meaning of first touches?

      First touch refers to the initial trapping of the ball and the ability to control a pass to ensure the ball does what they want, and that the setup must be perfect.

      Why is first touch important?

      A well-executed first touch increases the player’s ability to maintain possession, improve their speed of play, make a good pass, dribbling effectively, or take a shot at a goal.


      Exercise to improve first touch

      Ball juggling
      Kicking against the wall
      Playing lofted kick against each other
      Practice all the basics of ball control etc

  • Virgil Van Dijk’s failure to sign new contract attracts first class club

    In the event of Virgil Van Dijk not signing a new contract at Liverpool, it triggers the interest of first-class clubs like Bayern Munich, Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

    Who is Virgil Van Dijk
    Dutch professional footballer born 8 July 1991 who plays as a centre-back joining Liverpool January 2018 from Southampton, for whom he made 67 league appearances in total, scoring four goals.In the current club Liverpool played 8 seasons, during this time he played 310 matches and scored 26 goals.

  • CAF turn off Eaglets into U-17 AFCON slots


    As CAF picks Bronze Winning to Complete 16 -team at u17 AFCON, the thought of this approach may give the five-time world champions (Golden Eaglets) the opportunity to participate in the FIFA U17 World Cups, as the Nigeria 17 national team finished third behind eventual winners, Burkina Faso and runners, up Cote D’Ivoire who pick the region’s automatic ticket at the WAFU B championship held in Ghana.


    Nigeria hope to participate in Morocco AFCON u17 from March 30th to April 19, 2025, as CAF allotted two of the extra four slots to the Gambia, who finished third in WAFU Zone A, as well as Tunisia. And the other two slots will be filled by the two top teams from the UNIFFAC region qualifier qualifiers, which will be hosted by Cameroon from February 16-28. Five countries; Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo will participate in the championship without Nigeria participating in UNIFFAC.

  • THE MAGIC OF THE CUP IS ALIVE!


    Today, number one on the Premier League table, lost to Plymouth Argyle, who were at the bottom of the table in the second division of England league.
    The ply mouth follows history to join teams from second division to beat premier side like follow did

    2002 Leeds 1 vs 2. Cardiff
    2015 Chelsea 2. vs 4 Bradford
    2018 Man City 0 vs 1 Wigan

    Since the start of November, Plymouth have beaten two Premier League clubs in competitions, Brentford and Liverpool,by 1-0.

  • Remo stars copy Manchester city record

    Following their 2-1 win at Ikene township stadium, Remo Stars are now on the outright eighth unbeaten run to embark on the journey of Akwa United-Uyo-based club, which has the longest unbeaten streak in Nigeria’s Premier League history. with 15 matches a match, eight wins and seven draws under coach Kennedy Boboye in 2020–21 seasons

    Remo Stars have now gone 9 matches without losing in the competition, dating back to their 2-1 defeat at Niger against Niger Tornadoes on 1st December 2024. It set a club record of leading first in the table with 48 points and 15 goal difference. To follow suit of Manchester City, who won the 2023-24 league with 23 matches unbeaten, 5point different and 61 goals different.

  • IFC: Pre -Season seminar will SWIFT Ibadan football LIKE THE WIND

    The Ibadan Football council (IFC) Pre-season Seminar was held. Today, the 8th of February 2025, this will bring out the best from coaches, players and team administrators, as seminars are a challenge to equipping coaches, players and team officers with good knowledge of how to handle issues related to the development of athletes. One of the sources, Mrs Ibukunoluwa Otesile, lead consultant, declared that the development of athletes should not focus resources on sport or football only, but total ways of life because. Life of athletes begins after their career is finished
    And she itemized five domains of development, which are
    1) physical
    2) Cognitive
    3) Emotional
    4) Social
    5) Ethical and Moral
    She further explained that creating a safe and supportive environment and balancing training with life skills will help enable us to do stable sportsmanship and well manage leagues. Her teachers are so dynamic that all the participants left with no option to stand up and start clapping.

    On the second. Presentation by Former Green Eagles and shooting stars sports Club (3sc) Dr Felix Owolabi Akinloye MON, who was one of the people’s sources in his statement, stated that work, discipline and diligence play key roles in shaping the future of footballers. He furthers his discussion by encouraging coaches to enlighten the athletes on what to take and why they were going to matches, and shared his experience on two occasions when he was removed from matches due to taking poundo yam (Iyan in yoruba) on his way to the match and getting malaria drugs to take during the National camp. Dr Felix Owolabi declared,” I don’t believe there’s a juju in football. Having a good wheel and perfect drive will help, said his role model was late pele of Brazil.

    The IFC chairman , Mogaji Rotimi Ali, appreciates people’s resources and chief, Mutiu Adepoju, also known as headmaster, for their contribution to sports development. He further stated that his focus was to have a well-managed league and this year’s league first prize would move from two hundred thousand naira to one million, why other participants would go home with something reasonable.

    In his goodwill message, chief Mutiu Adepoju, headmaster of Super Eagles fame, lauded the management board of Ibadan Football Council (IFC) headed by Mogaji Rotimi Ali for the convening of the seminar.

    He said using the head to score goals isn’t like juju but constant practice with a desire to score goals right from secondary school.