LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the top strikers in the Togolese first division, Kossi Koudagba of ASC Kara, has died of malaria aged 25. Koudagba had finished top striker in Togo for two years in a row and won the league in 2019. Before he won the best striker title with the second-tier club Espoir…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi is an Argentine and Barcelona’s Professional Football star. He has since the beginning of his career, been playing a top-notch football in the Catalonia side. Having been outstanding over a decade, he has won close to a hundred awards, including six Ballon D’or, a feat that has placed him above…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Michel d’Hooghe, chief doctor of world soccer governing body, FIFA, has warned against the return of football anytime soon due to the continuous threat of COVID-19. D’Hooghe, who doubles as chairman of FIFA’s medical committee, gave the warning during an interview with BBC saying governing bodies should rather prepare for…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The expectation to see Samuel Chukwueze continue his upward trajectory this season hasn’t quite materialised and the Super Eagles star has found himself out of Villarreal’s first-team since late-January. In Chukwueze’s last start at Deportivo Alaves, his mixed performance was the final straw for the Yellow Submarine trainer who’s opted for Gerard…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ronaldinho took part in a behind-bars football match at his Paraguayan prison on Friday and wiped the floor with the other inmates, scoring five goals and assisting six in an 11-2 victory. The 39-year-old, who played for Barcelona, AC Milan and PSG, has been detained after being arrested for allegedly trying to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles of Nigeria star Kanu Nwankwo popularly known as papilo is back on the football scene. This time its not him, its his son Sean Nwankwo! The Watford u-16 star player have got the whole England talking with his mesmerizing football pace and skills! It can be safely concluded that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In his playing heydey Taribo West was a tough-tackling defender taking on the best strikers in Italy’s Serie A with his trademark shock of brightly-coloured braids. Now the former Inter Milan and AC Milan player is one of several ex-Nigeria national team stars and officials on a crusade to stamp out the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Nigeria international is now qualified to pursue a career in golf, seven months after he called time on his football stint Former Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion forward Peter Odemwingie is now a professional golfer. The 38-year-old, who retired from football in April, took to social media to announce…