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Zinedine Zidane is interested in becoming manager of Chelsea, provided the club can give him certain assurances. Current manager Maurizio Sarri is under mounting pressure after what has been a difficult season and Zidane is keen to talk to the club about coming in to replace him. However, the former Real Madrid boss would need the Blues to guarantee that ...

Olympique Lyonnais will be out to ‘reduce’ the influence of Lionel Messi when they host Barcelona in their Champions League last-16 first leg without their talisman and captain Nabil Fekir tonight. Fekir will be suspended for the game, limiting Lyon’s striking power as Bruno Genesio’s side will rely on defender Ferland Mendy to contain Argentine forward Messi and French striker ...

Ex- Black Stars and Hearts of Oak goalkeeper, Sammy Adjei, says Ghana football will collapse if educational qualifications are introduced into the management and administration of Ghana football. There have been reports indicating that the an Ad-hoc committee of the Normalisation Committee are proposing that educational qualifications be introduced to persons who will want to contest for top positions at ...

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool gets higher odds in this evening’s champion’s league encounter with Bayern at Anfield with an odd of 2.09 in favour of Liverpool. According to mybet.africa even though the odds favour Liverpool, matches between these two sides have always been uncompromising. Statistics show that Bayern is a force to reckon with and judging from the current performance of ...

Kissi Agyebeng, a long-time lawyer for Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has told Bola Ray that he has withdrawn his services from the footballer because they are no longer at “par with reasoning” on issues. According to the popular lawyer, who also represents investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, he decided to recuse himself from all Gyan’s cases after they agreed ...

Little Rudolph ‘Blaze’ Ingram is 1.5 seconds closer to following in the footsteps of Usain Bolt as the fastest man on earth and he’s only seven years old. In a new clip posted on the Florida boy’s Instagram page Sunday, the youngster shows he has improved since his staggering feat of completing a 100-meter race in 14.59 seconds last August. ...

Mauro Icardi has been stripped of the Inter Milan captaincy in favour of goalkeeper Samir Handanovic amid speculation the Argentina forward is set to leave the club, the Italian outfit announced on Wednesday. “The club can confirm that Samir Handanovic is the new captain of the team,” the Serie A outfit tweeted. The switch comes as Icardi, 25, has yet ...

Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan, is indeed the father of his three children after a paternity test was conducted, Ghanaweb can confirm. The footballer, after filing for divorce from his wife, Gifty Gyan, late last year allegedly denied fathering their three children demanding a DNA test to be carried out on all three to ascertain if he is the father ...

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri again vowed to stick with his style of football in spite of the Londoners suffering their worst defeat since 1991 in Sunday’s hammering at Manchester City. But it is still clear to him that woeful away form threatens to ruin their season. The statistics do not make pleasant reading for the under-pressure Sarri, and Chelsea’s 6-0 ...

Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is to get his own show on Russian state television channel RT, the station said on Monday. The fortnightly programme titled “On the touchline with Jose Mourinho” will provide coverage of the UEFA Champions League from March 7 with the 56-year-old Portuguese analysing the matches.​ “I’m going to talk about football on RT. What ...