Actor Razaaq Adoti discusses the pressure on the Super Eagles for AFCON, missing the World Cup, and the need for grassroots investment in Nigerian footballRead More: https://punchng.com/eagles-under-pressure-to-deliver-at-afcon-adoti/

Former Super Eagles star Emmanuel Amunike lauds Governor Dapo Abiodun for his significant investment in sports development in Ogun State.Read More: https://punchng.com/amunike-heaps-praise-on-abiodun-for-sports-development/

LASK right-winger Moses Usor is reportedly being considered for Nigeria’s Super Eagles squad for the 2025 AFCON after an impressive season in Austria.Read More: https://punchng.com/usor-in-line-for-eagles-afcon-squad/

Following Nigeria’s World Cup failure, Ike Shorunmu urges the NFF to begin early AFCON 2025 preparation to rebuild the Super Eagles and regain trust.Read More: https://punchng.com/shorunmu-calls-for-early-afcon-2025-preparation/

Gazzetta dello Sport’s Stefano Agresti criticises Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman for his poor form with Atalanta and the Super Eagles this season.Read More: https://punchng.com/italian-journalist-criticises-nigerian-forward/

The world of soccer throws up no shortage of questions. Today, Graham Ruthven endeavors to answer three of them Pep Guardiola has done a lot with his 1,000 matches as a manager. At Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, he has lifted 40 trophies (including three Community Shields, because why wouldn’t you count them?), yet not even this fact quantifies the way Guardiola has defined an entire era (or two) of the sport. Continue reading...

Striker could be fit for home game against Everton Lisandro Martínez to train with Argentina’s squad Benjamin Sesko will miss Slovenia’s games against Kosovo and Sweden owing to the knee injury sustained at Tottenham, but Manchester United are hopeful that he may be available for Everton’s visit after the international break. The striker was forced off after 87 minutes of the 2-2 draw with Spurs on Saturday after being introduced on 58 minutes for Noussair Mazraoui. Ruben Amorim admitted concern after the game and Sesko has withdrawn from the Slovenia squad. Continue reading...

Tajikistan concluded their FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025 Group I campaign with a 2-0 defeat against Burkina Faso on Tuesday.

Lionel Messi scores two and assists two in 4-0 win Cincinnati eliminates Columbus on late Brenner goal Dayne St Clair scored and Andrew Thomas hit the crossbar in a penalty-kick shootout that was decided by the goalkeepers in the 11th round, and Minnesota United staged a shorthanded rally to beat the Seattle Sounders on Saturday in the rubber match of the best-of-three first-round series for the MLS Cup after a 3-3 tie in regulation Thomas, who replaced starter Stefan Frei in the 89th minute with a shootout looming, appeared to injure a finger on a miss by Joaquín Pereyra to begin the shootout. He finished with a heavily taped hand. Continue reading...

Mexico international Marcelo Flores is currently working out the final details of joining a training camp for Canada's national team as an unofficial call-up for this month's friendlies, a source confirmed to ESPN.

Banyana Banyana squeeze through but assistant Thinasonke Mbuli insists they must learn from countries such as Malawi The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations will welcome two new participants next March after Malawi and Cape Verde qualified for the first time. For Cape Verde, the island archipelago with a population of just over half a million people, it’s a double celebration after their men’s team qualified for the World Cup for the first time. The women’s team was only founded in 2018 and in seven years have enjoyed a rapid rise. As far as records show, no other team has progressed as quickly from formation to major tournament. They will play in a field that includes hosts Morocco, 10-time champions Nigeria, Kenya and Burkina Faso, who have both qualified for just the second time in their history, and six other teams who were involved at the 2024 edition: Zambia, Tanzania, Algeria, Senegal, Ghana and 2022 champions South Africa, who required a 91st-minute winner against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to confirm their spot. Continue reading...

South Korean forward joined Los Angeles FC this summer Thomas Müller earns $1.4m annually in Vancouver Los Angeles FC forward Son Heung-min tops Major League Soccer’s summer signings with an annual salary of $10.4m and total compensation of $11.2m, becoming the second-highest-paid player behind Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi. Son joined LAFC in August after more than a decade at Tottenham and scored nine goals in 10 regular season MLS matches. Continue reading...

Inter Miami star delivered remarks in an NBC interview Messi reiterated his desire to play in the 2026 World Cup Lionel Messi said that MLS must loosen its spending restrictions in order to become a top league in the world of soccer and said that he is hopeful that he will be physically able to contribute to Argentina at next summer’s World Cup. In a rare interview with an American outlet, Messi sat down with NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In the interview, Messi was asked if he felt that soccer could become as popular in the US as American sports like football, baseball, and basketball. Messi said he thinks the sport could get there, but that teams need to have more freedom first. Continue reading...

The Argentine has been as excellent as ever in his later years, but his presence and performance has yet to push MLS into the US mainstream OK, show of hands. How many of you knew that Lionel Messi – a global superstar who has committed to spend his next three years in the United States – just completed the best individual season in Major League Soccer history? Be honest. Continue reading...