LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany’s 6-0 thrashing had been coming for some time. The team coached by Joachim Low has been in decline since losing to France in the European Champions semifinals in 2016, and the slide arguably started before that, after the World Cup win in 2014. Low was supposed to reinvigorate the squad with…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World football governing body, FIFA, has again showered encomiums on the wonder goal scored by former Nigerian skipper Sunday Oliseh against Spain at the France 1998 World Cup. Recalling Oliseh’s strike on its 22nd year-anniversary, FIFA shared a clip of the goal on the Federation’s Twitter handle with these words: “Sunday Oliseh…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Spanish state of more than €1 million (£813,000/$1,127,000) after failing to declare payments of over €5m earned from his 2014 move to Chelsea. The striker was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday, but Spanish law states that non-violent crimes with…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Europe saw further signs of hope in the coronavirus outbreak Sunday as Italy’s daily death toll was at its lowest in more than two weeks and its infection curve was finally on a downward slope. In Spain, new deaths dropped for the third straight day. But the optimism was tempered by…