Emmanuel Emenike Back From Injury

Emmanuel Emenike will be back in action for UEA club, Al Ain against Al Jazirah on Friday. Emenike has been missing in action due to injury.

This is sure to be music to the ears of new Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh as Emenike is one of the 18 foreign professionals invited for the national team’s AFCON qualifier in Tanzania.

 Emenike has be nursing a muscular injury that has kept him out of action according to his coach, Zlako Dalic.

World Championships 2015: Bolt Beats Gatlin In 200m Men's Final

Usain Bolt won the rematch and 200m gold as he ran a wonderful bend to once again leave rival Justin Gatlin chasing silver and fresh air.

On a sweaty, sticky night in the Bird's Nest, Bolt was out of the blocks quicker and opened up an unassailable lead over the first 100m before coming away down the straight and jabbing his thumbs at his chest as he crossed the line.

His 19.55 seconds was the fastest in the world this year, his speed and peerless championship class too good for American Gatlin, whose 19.74 was well outside his season's best.

In Form Sunshine Stars Will Win The NPFL Title - Omaka

Anthony Omaka believes Sunshine Star’s brilliance in the attack will see them clinch the Nigeria Professional Football League title ahead of their rivals this season.

Kennedy Boboye’s team  currently sit two points below leaders Enyimba, but boast of a better goals difference in the Nigeria topflight after tearing apart El Kanemi Warriors 5-0 in their last league outing.

With 13 matches still to play, the former Flying Eagles attacking midfielder concedes that he and his team-mates are remaining focused on the job in hand, but believes that they can win their first league title ever if they keep up their brilliant goal scoring form.

Spanish Showcase: Spanish Teams Have Won The Last 6 UEFA Titles

Having won the last six UEFA titles that have been up for grabs (Real Madrid and Barça in the Champions League and UEFA Super Cup, and Sevilla's Europa League double), history will be made today when Spain becomes the first country to have five representatives in the Champions League group-stage draw.

Valencia made it a high five for Spain when they did enough to go through against none other than Monaco, where the draw is taking place, thereby gaining entry to Europe's elite competition after a two-year gap.

The Champions League has become the ideal stage for Spanish teams to showcase their talents. Since the 2006-07 season (Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Milan), there has been at least one Spanish team amongst the four semi-finalists. And for the last five campaigns in a row at least two Champions League semi-finalists have come from La Liga.

Mario Balotelli Blames Brendan Rodgers' Tactics For Liverpool Failure

Maverick striker Mario Balotelli blamed his poor Liverpool stint on manager Brendan Rodgers' tactics after completing his season-long loan move to AC Milan on Thursday.

The controversial player failed to make an impact at Anfield last season, scoring only one goal in 16 Premier League appearances as the club finished sixth in the table.

The 25-year-old Italian, who joined Liverpool last season for a reported fee of 16 million pounds ($24.78 million) from Milan, was also criticised for his poor work rate during his time in England.

Real Madrid: CR7 In The Best Of Company

Cristiano Ronaldo, struggling with a lacklustre start to the season, is set for a boost on Saturday with James Rodríguez and Karim Benzema, his two attacking wingmen with whom he shares a strong connection and can bring home the goals, returning to the starting XI. Just what the doctor ordered for the club's first home La Liga fixture of the campaign.

The three conjured up 28 goals between them last season in their various combinations. Benzema served up seven assists to Cristiano and three to James, with the Portuguese star providing five assists to each of his two teammates and the Colombian handing goal glory to Benzema on two occasions and to CR7 on six. Not surprising Ronaldo has missed having the pair around.

I Can Handle My Critics - Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney says he is strong enough to handle being criticised after he ended his 10-game goal drought for Manchester United.

The striker, under scrutiny after a poor start to the season, scored a hat-trick in the 4-0 win over Club Brugge in the Champions League qualifier.

"If I didn't have a strong character, that may have affected me, but I know my quality," 29-year-old Rooney said.

Balotelli Completes AC Milan Loan Deal

AC Milan have confirmed striker Mario Balotelli has joined the club on a season-long loan from Liverpool.

Balotelli, 25, arrived in Milan early on Tuesday to finalise a move back to San Siro from Anfield for the 2015-16 campaign, and both clubs have now confirmed the deal.

Speaking to reporters outside the La Madonnina clinic before the deal was concluded, the Italy international said: "I'm happy to be back.

World Championships 2015: Bolt & Gatlin Qualifies For 200m Men's Final

The Usain Bolt v Justin Gatlin re-match is on after both men dominated their semi-finals to charge into Thursday's 200m final.

Bolt, looking to retain his other individual sprint title after that extraordinary 100m victory here in the Bird's Nest, looked to be saving his strength for the next showdown as he eased off in 19.95 seconds.

Gatlin, comfortably the fastest man in the world this year over 200m, as he was over 100m, ran a controlled 19.87 as he seeks revenge for his shock defeat on Sunday night.

UEFA Champions League Playoffs: Ahmed Musa Shoots CSKA Moscow To Glory

Nigeria star Ahmed Musa on Wednesday night fired the goal which qualified CSKA Moscow to the UEFA Champions League group stage for the third season in a row.

CSKKA won 3-1 at home to reverse a 2-1 loss to Sporting Lisbon in Portugal a week ago and advance on a 4-3 aggregate. And it was the Africans Musa and Seydou Doumbia from Cote d’Ivoire, who made it possible for the Russian army team.

Doumbia, who also scored in the first leg in Portugal, grabbed a brace with Ahmed Musa providing the assist for the Ivorian's second goal of the night.

Done: Man City, Wolfsburg Agrees €80m Kevin De Bruyne Transfer Fee

Chelsea's reject Kevin de Bruyne moved on to Wolfsburg to become the Bundesliga player of the year. Hot, gifted and talented Kevin has certainly given Mourinho a reason to ask himself if he was right to dispose the young Belgian who might come back to hunt him.Considering is big money move, Kevin is expected to help City win trophies this season. Just imagine him scoring against Chelsea.......

Another protracted summer transfer appears to have reached a conclusion on Wednesday night, as German news outlet Bild are reporting that Manchester City have agreed to sign Kevin De Bruyne from Wolfsburg for a fee of at least €80m.

Should the deal come to actualisation, De Bruyne will become the most expensive Belgium footballer of all time.

Transfer Update: Coentrao Joins Monaco On Loan Deal As Kurzawa Moves To PSG

French club Monaco confirmed on Wednesday that a loan deal has been reached with Real Madrid for Portuguese international defender Fabio Coentrao with Layvin Kurzawa moving to Paris Saint-Germain.

Coentrao, who has been capped 50 times, has spent four seasons at Real Madrid, where he failed to make an impression, having previously played for Benfica in Portugal for four years. The 27-year-old will undergo his medical in Monaco on Thursday.

PSG coach Laurent Blanc confirmed on Wednesday they were signing Kurzawa from Monaco as PSG left-back Lucas Digne completed his loan move to AS Roma.

Dante Staying At Bayern Munich - Agent

Dante's agent has quashed reports claiming the defender could leave Bayern Munich. The Brazil international was absent during a club photo shoot this week, prompting speculation he was set to leave the Allianz Arena.

However, the player's representative, Marcus Marin, told Goal: "There is no news, he will stay at Bayern.

"He missed the photo shoot but that was just a coincidence, it has nothing to do with a transfer.

UEFA Champions League Playoffs: United, Lazio Gunning For Qualification

Manchester United are looking to complete the job over Club Brugge in their Champions League play-off second leg on Wednesday while Italy's Lazio may have slightly more to do to secure a place in the group stages.

The English Premier League giants have a two-goal lead to take to Belgium after a 3-1 win at Old Trafford last Tuesday, while Lazio have a slender 1-0 advantage for their second leg against Bayer Leverkusen in Germany.

A 2-0 win for Brugge at the Jan Breydelstadion would be enough to take them through at United's expense (on the away goals rule), but United -- three-time winners of the Champions League -- are confident after Marouane Fellaini's late third goal in the first leg.

NPFL: Amokachi Has Brought Stability & Technical Discipline To Ifeanyi Ubah FC Says Nwaiwu

FC Ifeanyi Ubah midfielder Onyeka Nwaiwu feels constant changing of technical crew by club management is the main reason why the Anambra Warriors have recorded strings of poor result in the Nigeria Professional Football League.

For several weeks in the first stanza of the NPFL, the Nnewi based outfit were ranked among the best three placed team but soon dropped and are now ranked 11th on the log after 24 games played.

Bulgarian Mitko Dobrev was shown the exit door, and coach John Obuh was hired. Not too long, he was given the marching order for former Nigeria international, Daniel Amokachi to come in. According to Nwaiwu, that trend has affected the performance of the team.

NBA Star & Arsenal Fan Luol Deng Urges Wenger To Sign To Assure Premier League Dominance

Just like Henry had recently said that Arsenal needs to sign a striker inorder to win the Premier League, popular NBA star has also supported the claim insisting that if Wenger signs a key player then the expected dominance will come.

After an inconsistent start to the Premier League season, famous Arsenal fan Luol Deng says the club need to add to their squad.

Two-time NBA all-star Luol Deng believes Arsenal are a player away from becoming dominant in the Premier League.

Transfer News: Chelsea Set To Splash £110m On Pogba & Stones, Spurs Keen On Berahino & More

Paul Pogba recently picked up the no.10 jersey Carlos Tevez left behind and with the recent move of Tevez and Pirlo a move away from Italy is not likely though Chelsea are keen on the move. Some sources deeply believe the young midfield general is only staying at Juve this season in order to get a preferred move to Barcelona.

Jose Mourinho, having already spent £21m on Pedro in an attempt to prevent further unlikeable results, now looks poised to fork out an additional £110m on Paul Pogba and John Stones.

We don’t know much about Roman Abramovich’s personality, but we can deduce from recent events that he’s a man who doesn’t like drawing at home to Swansea and losing 3-0 to Manchester City. Because having already spent £21m on Pedro in an attempt to prevent further unlikeable results, he now looks poised to fork out an additional £110m on Paul Pogba and John Stones.

World Championships: Team Nigeria's Woes Continues In Beijing

Team Nigeria has been disappointing in Beijing with Nigeria's lead athlete Blessing Okagbare failing to make it to the 100m final coupled with other failures from members of the team.

Nigerian athletes’ nightmare at the IAAF World Championships, on-going in Beijing, China continued yesterday when Women 400m hopeful, Patience Okon-George and men 200m runner, Tega Odele bowed out of the contest.

Okon-George reached her last bus stop in the semi-final of the women 400m with an improvement in her profile; a personal best of 50.76 seconds in the race won by Christine Ohurougu with 50.16 seconds. USA’s Allyson Felix ran the fastest semi-final time a 49.89 seconds, which was rivalled by 50.12 seconds, done byShunae Miller of the Bahamas. The final comes up this afternoon.

I Would Become A Coach - Javier Mascherano

It's a long dream but its highly achieveable. The Argentine international wants to take after the likes of Maradona, Guardiola & Enrique and his certainly hoping to coach Barca & Argentina some day.

Barcelona ace Javier Mascherano has revealed that he wants to become a coach when he calls time on his playing career.

The 31-year-old is in his fifth year at the Catalan club, moving to Camp Nou from Liverpool in 2010 after also representing West Ham, Corinthians and River Plate.

League Cup: Tottenham To Face Arsenal In 3rd Round

London rivals Tottenham and Arsenal will lock horns in the third round of the League Cup.
Tottenham have been handed a mouth-watering third-round tie with arch-rivals Arsenal in the League Cup.

Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham - runners-up to Chelsea last season - will host Arsenal at White Hart Lane in the week commencing September 21.