Bayern Munich striker, Robert Lewandowski has taken to Instagram to share a picture of himself posing with the European Golden Boot alongside his wife, Anna. The 33-year-old Polish striker was awarded the European Golden Boot for outscoring all the players in Europe including Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and the previous winner of the award, Ciro […]
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The European football governing body, UEFA has strong reservations against FIFA’s proposed plans to hold the World Cup every two years. Since 1930 when the World Cup was launched, it has always been held once in every four years and no one seemed to have a problem with that. However, ahead of the Qatar 2022 […]
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The European football governing body, UEFA, has named the Uefa players of the year (2020-2021 season) and Futballnews has decided to take a look at how and why they were named best players in their various roles. UEFA gave the awards to the players on Thursday, August 26, 2021, during the UEFA Champions League draw […]
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Denmark captain Simon Kjaer and the medical team of the country’s national team received the 2021 Uefa President’s Award for saving Christian Eriksen‘s life during the just-concluded European Championship (Euro 2020). Christian Eriksen almost died on the pitch during Denmark’s Euro 2020 opening match against Finland on June 12, 2021. The Inter Milan attacking midfielder […]
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The European football governing body, UEFA, would go on with the plans to mend the football body’s Financial Fair Play rules before the end of 2021. The Financial Fair Play rules are the most controversial in UEFA’s law books. Many clubs have had to face UEFA’s ban for breaching the fair play rules over the […]
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The long-awaited Europa Conference League will commence in the coming 2021-2022 season and all is set for the third-tier European club tournament. Unlike the UEFA Champions League matches that usually take place on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the Europa Conference League matches will take place on Thursday nights alongside the Europa League. Before the Europa […]
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UEFA has released the Euro 2020 team of the tournament and the tournament’s highest goalscorer, Cristiano Ronaldo did not make it into the team. The Euro 2020 team of the tournament which comprised 11 players, was selected by UEFA’s technical observer team. The technical observers comprised 16 former players and former or current coaches. In […]
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The European football governing body, UEFA has abolished the away goals rule in European club football at all levels of the game. The rule which has been in operation since 1965 would not be applicable from the 2021-2022 season. UEFA’s away goals rules stipulated that the two-legged knock-out rounds in European club football could be […]
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Euro 2020 group stage is finally over and the men have been separated from the boys as far as the group rankings are concerned. The 16 teams that made it to the next stage have been named and the teams that they will play against have also been named. Below are the winners of each […]
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The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban will no longer visit Munich in Germany to watch the Euro 2020 Group F final match between Germany and Hungary due to the homophobic interest the game has generated. The fixture is scheduled to kick off at 20:00 later today, June 23, at the Allianz Arena in Munich, […]
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