French coach Paul Le Guen looms large over a Cameroon team capable of winning a fifth African Nations Cup title in Angola this month.
The Indomitable Lions are in Lubango-based Group D with Gabon, Tunisia and Zambia and the widespread view in the media is that the 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2002 winners will top the table with a scramble for the runners-up slot.
Assuming they reach the quarter-finals, Cameroon would most likely face title holders and six-time champions Egypt or Nigeria with the former the preferred opponent given the desire for revenge.
Cameroon suffered two losses to Egypt at the 2008 Nations Cup in Ghana, 4-2 in an opening-round group match and 1-0 in the final with a mistake by veteran defender Rigobert Song leading to the Mohamed Aboutraika winner…
Brazilian striker Hulk has agreed a two-year contract extension with Russian Premier League side Zenit.
Hulk will remain under contract with Zenit until the end of the 2018-19 season after putting pen to paper on a new contract with the Russian outfit.
The 28-year-old joined Zenit from Porto in 2012 and has scored 44 goals in 92 appearances for the three-time Russian champions.
With his previous contract due to expire in 2017, the club have moved to agree an extension with the Brazil international.
Since moving from Porto, where Hulk won four Primeira Liga titles, three Taca de Portugal ties and the UEFA Europa League, the 28-year-old has yet to win silverware in Russia.
However, with Zenit leading the top flight by seven points and still in co…
Bayern Munich president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has likened Premier League clubs pursuit of young players to kidnapping .
The English top flight has long attracted criticism for its clubs signing talented youngsters from abroad before they are able to sign professional contracts with the teams which developed them.
Many of these prospects ultimately fail to live up to their initial promise as they get lost among the stockpiled talent, while many commentators have also put the national team s struggles down to clubs not focusing on developing their own homegrown youngsters.
Bayern do not follow such a philosophy, though.
We don t want to sign 10 or 11-year-olds like the English, he told the club s official magazine.
There you can nearly talk …
Barcelona succeeded in their push to sign Keira Walsh after using really aggressive transfer tactics, according to Manchester City boss Gareth Taylor.
The England midfielder, who shone for the Lionesses in their Euro 2022 trophy success, joined Barcelona on September 7.
The Catalan giants were reported to have paid a world-record fee of around £350,000 (€400,000) to secure Walsh s signature, although that has been cast into some doubt by subsequent comments from Barcelona.
Walsh left City a day before the Women s Super League transfer deadline, and Taylor said the timing was down to Barcelona and nothing to do with us .
I always believe that you want players who want to be here. Keira had given eight solid years of service and probably her last season…
In a showdown between two Italian heavyweights who are dreaming of the chance to book a top-four finish, Inter Milan secured an eye-catching 2-0 victory away at Roma on Saturday evening.
Opening the scoring 12 minutes before the half-time break through Italian defender Federico Dimarco, the Nerazzurri certainly didn’t look back as they extended their domestic winning run to five appearances on the bounce.
Skyrocketing their way into the top-four and only continuing to shine since returning from March’s international break, it was Romelu Lukaku who eventually secured all three points as the Chelsea-loanee notched his ninth goal in his last 12 outings for club and country.
Watching their Champions League ambitions receive a major boost at the Stadio Olimpico, …
Marvel Snap has arrived, and the digital card game has players deeply entrenched with its style, aesthetics, deck-building mechanics, match locations, and card collections. The game works very differently in comparison to other collectible card games. You cannot really just spend money at the start for the best-completed decks. Though, you can purchase the game’s season pass or starter bundle, acquiring and upgrading most of the cards is dependent on your own playtime. In this introductory guide to one of the year’s surprise hits, we go through the best tips for beginners to snap up for the start of their journey in Marvel Snap.
Collecting cards
It would not be a collectible card game without, well, card collecting, of course. In othe…
Borussia Dortmund head coach Jürgen Klopp said he will not be resting players for their DFB-Pokal clash with Saarbrucken on Tuesday.
With Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League commitments, Klopp could be forgiven for fielding a weakened line-up against the third-tier outfit at the Stadion Ludwigspark.
However, he plans to select the strongest possible starting XI, even though there will be notable absentees with Marco Reus, Mats Hummels and Ilkay Gundogan all sidelined by injury.
We are taking this competition very seriously but I fear our opponent (Saarbrucken) will be too, Klopp said.
With every news they get, that another player on our side is missing, their confidence grows and they ll be even happier with this draw.
They are a third divisio…
Three days after their UEFA Champions League exit, Atletico Madrid will switch their focus to guaranteeing a return to next season s competition through La Liga when they host Elche.
Atletico were defeated 1-0 by Real Madrid in their quarter-final second leg on Wednesday, as Javier Hernandez s late strike saw the holders through following a goalless first encounter.
That reverse effectively ended Atletico s hopes of claiming any further silverware this season, with Diego Simeone s side lying nine points behind leaders Barcelona in the league with six games to go.
The defending Liga champions occupy third the final automatic Champions League qualification berth and with a four-point gap to Valencia, Simeone s men still have plenty to play for in the remaining week…
Robert Prosinecki quit as Bosnia-Herzegovina coach after Sunday s 4-2 defeat to Armenia left them with little hope of reaching Euro 2020.
Former Real Madrid and Barcelona midfielder Prosinecki was hired in January 2018 and enjoyed a fine start to his tenure, but Sunday s result leaves them in a poor position.
I talked to everyone and no longer [will I be coach], I resign, he said after the match. When I arrived, I believed we would make it to the Euros.
We have not succeeded in this and my successor will have time to prepare the team for the Nations League. I am no longer the coach.
Prosinecki presided over Bosnia s 2018-19 Nations League campaign, seeing them top their group and earn promotion to league A for 2020-21.
He also matched Bosnia s…
Manchester United have been candid about their interest in Leicester City’s James Maddison, and now the club think the likes of Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard might be a lure which would help the club sign the 22-year-old, reports Mirror.
The attacking midfielder has only been with the Foxes for little over a year, signing a five-year contract in June 2018 for a rumoured fee of about £20 million. While it has been thought that Manchester City and Liverpool were also potentially interested in him, Maddison was reportedly happy under Brendan Rogders and was not contemplating a move this past transfer window. However, United are hoping this might change next season and are counting on the popularity of Rashfor and Lingard to help them achieve their goal.
Leicester’…