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Man United is my last club in Europe

 
Manchester United midfielder, Bastian Schweinsteiger
has pledged his allegiance to the club despite being unable to make a
first team appearance this season. The 32 year-old who left
Bayern Munich last year made 18 appearances for the Red Devils last season is ready to give his best whenever he is called upon.
“MUFC will be my last club
in Europe. I respect other clubs, but Manchester United was the only one which
could make me leave Bayern Munich. I will be ready, if the team needs me. This
is all I can say about the current situation. I want to thank the fans for the
amazing support over the recent weeks,” he wrote on Twitter.
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All you need to know about the 2016/2017 Champions League group stage draw

The draw for the group stage draw for
the 2016/2017 UEFA Champions League takes place on Thursday, August 25 at 6pm
CET, 5pm BST at the UEFA headquarters in Monaco.
The 32 teams will be put into four
pots, with one team from each pot going into each of the eight groups.
Pot 1 consists of the current title
holders (Real Madrid) and the winners of the top-seven ranked nations at the
end of the 2014/15 season.
Pots 2-4 are decided by each side’s
UEFA club coefficient at the end of last season.
Clubs from the same association cannot
be drawn against each other.
Russian and Ukrainian teams cannot
play each other.
Teams In The Pot.
Pot 1
Real Madrid, Barcelona,
Leicester City, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, CSKA
Moscow
Pot 2
Atlético Madrid, Borussia Dortmund,
Arsenal, Sevilla, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen
Pot 3
Dynamo Kyiv, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven,
Sporting
Pot 4
Beşiktaş
Pot to be confirmed
Basel and Tottenham will be in either Pot 2 or 3 depending
on results in the play-offs, while Club Brugge will be in Pot 3 or 4
Teams in qualifying play-offs
The following ties will be settled on
Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 August
Ludogorets Razgrad vs FC Viktoria
Plzen (2-0 agg)
Celtic vs Hapoel Beer-Sheva (5-2 agg)
FC Copenhagen vs Apoel Nicosia (1-0
agg)
Dundalk vs Legia Warsaw (0-2 agg)
Dinamo Zagreb vs FC Salzburg (1-1 agg)
Steaua Bucharest vs Manchester City
(0-5 agg)

FC Porto vs Roma (1-1 agg)
Ajax vs Rostov (1-1 agg)
Young Boys vs Borussia Monchengladbach
(1-3)
Villarreal vs Monaco (1-2)

Group
stage dates?

Matchday one: 13–14 September
Matchday two: 27–28 September
Matchday three: 18–19 October
Matchday four: 1–2 November
Matchday five: 22–23 November
Matchday six: 6–7 December
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Carlo Ancelotti appoints son as assistant coach

The Ancelottis

Bayern Munich coach, Carlo Ancelotti has joined the growing list of managers who have appointed their sons important roles in football. The former Chelsea handler has named his son, Davide Ancelotti as the club’s assistant coach.

The 27 year-old who worked as a fitness coach at Real Madrid during the
latter’s spell was an ex youth player at AC Milan but went on to study sports
science after failing to measure up at the Serie A club. He became promoted to
Assistant Coach after learning the German language for 8 months.
He explained his new role on the club’s official YouTube channel, ‘My
job at Bayern is to support the coaches both in training and in pre-match
preparations, as well as during games.
‘On the training pitch, I explain exercises or just
help out with the language. My father speaks German but doesn’t understand
everything yet. I can speak German well because I’ve been studying the language
for eight months. I like the language – it’s difficult but I find it very
interesting.
‘I’m looking forward to learning many things here
as a coach, but also as a person, like a new culture and a new language. The
atmosphere at Bayern is incredible. You can sense the tradition. Despite being
such a big club, it’s like a family and the atmosphere reflects that.
‘I felt that way at AC Milan too and it’s very
difficult to find something like that.’
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It is bursting at the seams for Asisat Oshoala

2016 has certainly been a good one for Arsenal Ladies forward, Asisat Oshoala.
Days after she was unveiled as ambassador of Nairabet, the Nigeria soccer sensation has penned a new deal with Capital Oil and Gas Nigeria.

She was unveiled in a brief ceremony at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Docklands, London, which also had Super Eagles star Kenneth Omeruo and her manager in attendance. the 2015 CAF African Women’s Player of the Year winner pledged to continue doing the nation and club proud.
The business magnate who also agreed to be a patron of Oshoala’s foundation announced that he will soon float a women’s football club.

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Mario Balotelli rejected by Serie A outfit Sassuolo

The quest for Liverpool’s forgotten man, Mario Balotelli to find a new side is far from over as Serie A outfit, Sassuolo turn down the chance to sign him. The Italian striker who was once labelled as the paradigm of the modern footballer has been excluded from Liverpool coach, Jurgen Klopp’s plans and told he can leave the club this summer. 
Sassuolo chief executive Giovanni Carnevali told RaiSport’s Zona11pm show, ‘Mino Raiola (his agent) offered us Balotelli, but we refused.’
Turkish side Besiktas, Nantes as well as Everton are some of the clubs who have reportedly indicated interest in the out-of-favour player.
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Visual sports library berths online

Award-winning Sports journalist, Kayode Tijani has opened an Online Visual Sports Library. Speaking on the project, the soccer aficionado said, “For decades, I traveled round the world covering major international competitions, interviewing the biggest sports icons from Nigeria, from African and the rest of the world. “Now we have those definitive interviews, over 120 of them both for you to read and in film.

Also, you can now request for those most memorable sporting moments in your mind and we shall play them for you based on request.

This website will be answering your inquiries and will be a research site for Sports concerning the history of Sports from inception till date and you can bet on that as we have gathered the Archives of Sports from inception in almost all sports.
To watch, log on to  www.sportsxclusivetv.com.You can make requests by emailing  [email protected] and [email protected]. 

It’s a first come first serve basis once we have the capacity to answer your requests which we shall most times.
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Efe Sodje reacts to Gernot Rohr’s $47,000 monthly pay

Ex Nigeria international, Efe Sodje has hit out at the
Nigeria Football Federation over its decision to start paying the new Super
Eagles coach Gernot Rohr $47,000 as monthly salary.
 In a recent telephone interview, the World Cup
winner said “When Shuaibu Amodu, Stephen Keshi and Sunbday Oliseh were in charge of
the team, they weren’t paid such amount. They honour people here (England), but
they don’t in Nigeria. Here the FA is concerned about their own people but we
keep letting our own people down.”
He continued, “We should respect our own people. Nobody
knows him (Rohr) but they gave him the crucial job of taking us to the World
Cup. Why didn’t they take the same risk on Nigerian coaches? If you put this
man down amongst five white men, no Nigerian will know him. But put Salisu
(Yusuf) or Samson Siasia among five blacks and Nigerians will know him. So why
don’t we go for who we know?”
He
 added, “They said he will pay the other
people he’s bringing from the $47,000. They should tell us how much he (Rohr)
will personally earn from the money. Didn’t Keshi and Oliseh bring their own
assistants too? Were they paid the same amount? Let them show us the full
details of the contract.

“If a private firm
is paying the coach, then what is the NFF doing? Who will pay the local people
who are part of the backroom staff? It’s a funny development and a shame that
we still haven’t changed after so many years. There is Siasia and Emmanuel
Amuneke, these are big names. Why can’t we bring them to manage the national
team?”
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La Liga: Real Madrid close to setting a new record

Real Madrid registered their 13th consecutive La Liga win
yesterday after a thrilling 3-0 encounter with Real Sociedad in their
opening league fixture. Euro 2016 star, Gareth Bale netted a double and Marco Asensio scored once to get the Los Blancos off to a perfect La Liga start. 
It’s their second best run in the competition after
their 1961 squad recorded 15 wins in succession. With 3 La Liga wins on the rot,
(16), the Zidane-led men could find their way into history books again and
break the record set 55 years ago.   
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Mikel Obi still in awe of Rio Olympics achievement

Chelsea midfielder, John Mikel
Obi who captained Nigeria’s Dream Team to the just-concluded Rio Olympics games
is still in awe of the squad’s achievement. Nigeria’s football team claimed the
nation’s first medal since 2008 at the sporting event after defeating Honduras
in the third place match on Saturday. However, the excitement the victory has brought will not wear off quickly from the 29 year-old. 
“When I woke up in my hotel room on Sunday morning, I opened my eyes to
see my Olympic bronze medal lying there
beside me. It just hammered home to me what I had achieved with the rest of my
Nigeria team-mates the day before. We beat Honduras 3-2 to get the bronze
and secure Nigeria’s first Olympics medal in any sport since 2008. 
All of
us went into the game knowing this and it put extra pressure on the squad to
perform.
The
team actually played very well for the most part. We controlled the game, I
created three goals to put us 3-0 up and it was all very comfortable. But we
conceded two late on and all of a sudden it looked like everything was going
downhill. They made us sweat a bit and we were relieved to come out victorious.
I was
obviously very clear before travelling to Brazil that my target was the gold
medal.  But to get the bronze is still an amazing achievement.  There
was a celebration at the hotel afterwards, we were all jumping around. Everyone
was so excited. 
But we
managed to get everyone to sit down together and have a team meal. After
everything we have been through, it was great to have something to show for it
and we all thanked each other. I went
to sleep last night with my medal beside me; I couldn’t and didn’t want to let
it out of my sight.
It
really is a dream come true for me, for my family, my two little angels – my
twin baby girls – my wonderful girlfriend, who has supported me all the way.
I
might take the medal to the Chelsea training ground to show to the other
players – I hope I don’t make them jealous though! But
first off all I want to celebrate with my family, put it around my daughters’
neck, take pictures and make sure they get to see what daddy achieved.
This
experience has given me the hunger to do it again at the Olympics in Tokyo in
2020. I will be only 33 then and my game will still be at a high level.
I
enjoyed every minute of being in Brazil and I have been talking to the other
guys about playing in another Olympics. I’m already looking forward to it and
the countdown is on!
It’s
also provided me with a nice lift as I return to Chelsea. I will go back to see
the manager [Antonio Conte] and see what his plans are for me. I want
to get back into training and prove myself. I want to play and help the team to
win games.

I know
it will be difficult because I have missed most of pre-season and the coach has
a new way of playing. But it
is a positive thing for me that I have been playing well out here in Brazil and
I’m in good shape. 
I will
need a few days off first because this tournament has been so draining. I
arrive back in London on Wednesday morning and the game against Burnley on
Saturday will come too early to feature in.
The
plan is to have a little break, which is why the timing couldn’t be better as
the season stops for two weeks for international fixtures after the Burnley
game anyway. It
will give me plenty of time to enjoy my bronze medal and reflect on what has
been a magical few weeks in my football career.
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