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UEFA has lifted a ban on the live screening of Premier League games kicking off at 3:00 pm in England and Scotland for the rest of the season. The blackout has long been in place to protect attendances at matches. The move by European football’s governing body is seen a step towards restarting some domestic competitions in Britain behind closed ...

Neymar has donated $1 million to fight the impact of the new coronavirus in his native Brazil, according to TV network SBT. The Paris Saint-Germain star, the world’s third-highest-paid footballer, donated part of the money to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the rest to a charitable fund launched by his friend Luciano Huck, a Brazilian TV presenter, the ...

Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global body FIFA Gianni Infantino said on Thursday. “Football will come back, and when it does, we’ll celebrate coming out of a nightmare together,” he told the Italian news agency ANSA in an interview. “There is one lesson, however, that both you and me must have understood: the football that ...

Unified heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, says he has lost ‘close friends’ to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles holder revealed this in a video on his YouTube channel where he urged people to stay safe as the pandemic sweeps across the globe. The boxer, who also wished a speedy recovery to those who have tested ...

Wimbledon chiefs on Wednesday cancelled the Grand Slam tournament for the first time since World War II as the coronavirus wreaks further havoc on the global sporting calendar. “It is with great regret that the main board of the All England Club (AELTC) and the committee of management of the Championships have today decided that The Championships 2020 will be ...

UEFA has suspended all Champions League and Europa League matches “until further notice” due to the coronavirus pandemic, European football’s governing body said after a meeting on Wednesday. All national team games scheduled for June have also been postponed, including play-off matches for Euro 2020, which has been moved to 2021. Edited By: Dorcas Jonah/Tajudeen Atitebi(NAN)

Golf Lagos, April 1, 2020 Andrew Oche, the Number One ranked golf player in Nigeria, on Wednesday advised upcoming players to improvise and continue to practise at home in order to hone their skills against the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic. Oche, who gave the advice while speaking with Nigeria News Agency in Lagos, added that just like every other thing that had been affected by the ...

SPORT Federer wows fans on Twitter with video of trick shots Published 11 hours ago on March 31, 2020 ByOLAWALE ALABI Roger Federer delighted fans by posting a video on Twitter on Tuesday, which shows him executing some trademark trick shots against a wall in the snow. The 20-times Grand Slam champion last played at the semi-finals of the Australian Open, where ...

UEFA will discuss the fate of this season’s Champions League and its other competitions that have been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic in a video conference meeting on Wednesday, European soccer’s governing body said in a statement. All UEFA competitions have been halted because of the flu-like virus that has killed around 34,000 people, while this year’s European Championship has been pushed ...

Paris St-Germain (PSG) forward Neymar has denied flouting social distancing rules following his return to his native Brazil. The accusation came after he posted pictures on Instagram which showed him sun-bathing and playing foot-volleyball with a group of friends. The 28-year-old said in a statement that the people in the photographs had travelled with him from Paris in a private jet ...