Senegal’s Pape Gueye was named the best African player in La Liga for 2025/26 at a ceremony in Lagos, leaving Nigeria’s Akor Adams and Chidera Ejuke to settle for recognition without the prize. Villarreal midfielder Pape Gueye claimed the 2025/26 La Liga African MVP award on Sunday, May 24, beating Super Eagles forwards Akor Adams […]

Shukurat Oladipo and Rinsola Babajide wrote their names into Nigerian football history on Sunday evening at the Stadio Romeo Menti in Vicenza, becoming the first Nigerian players ever to win the Coppa Italia Femminile as AS Roma beat Juventus 1-0 to complete a domestic double. Manuela Giugliano’s close-range finish in the 80th minute separated two

A season that began in suspension and ended in individual glory closed on Sunday when Maduka Okoye made his 30th Serie A appearance for Udinese, conceding once as Napoli won 1-0 in a game that did nothing to diminish what has been the finest sustained campaign of the Nigerian goalkeeper’s career. Rasmus Hojlund’s 24th-minute strike,

Jack Ipalibo travelled the long road through Spain, Norway, Greece, Ukraine and Hungary to reach Portuguese football, and on Sunday evening at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, his journey delivered something no lower league club in 88 years of the Taça de Portugal had ever achieved. SCU Torreense, a second-division Liga Portugal 2 side based

Morgan Gibbs-White finished the 2025-26 Premier League season with more goal contributions than any other England-eligible player in the top flight, yet Thomas Tuchel left him out of the Three Lions’ World Cup squad and the Forest captain has now said his piece about it. The story carries a Nigerian angle that makes it particularly