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World Cup qualifying draw: Spain land Italy in group stages

The draw for the preliminary stages of the 2018 World Cup has been taken and some interesting fixtures have expectedly stemmed out. France landed Netherlands while Spain have been placed in the same group with Italy. England also find themselves in the same group with Scotland.
Germany will start defending their World Cup title in a six-team UEFA pool where the Czech Republic seems the biggest barrier to advancing as group winners.
Perhaps the toughest European group puts the Netherlands with France and Sweden, whose star forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic has perhaps his last chance to play again on football’s biggest stage.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal got a more favourable draw with Switzerland their highest-ranked rival.
Opening the draw, FIFA paired four continents whose teams take part in two-leg playoffs in November 2017 that will complete the World Cup lineup. A CONCACAF team will face an Asian team, and Oceania’s best will play a South American team.
A total of 141 of FIFA’s 209 member federations were involved in the draw, including top-ranked Argentina, joint  No. 207-ranked Djibouti and Cook Islands, plus South Sudan on their World Cup debut.
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Gerard Lopez appointed coach of Barca B

Ex-Barcelona midfielder, Diego Lopez, has been appointed the coach of Barcelona’s B team after agreeing a two year contract. The 36-year-old will follow in the footsteps of Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique in taking charge of the Camp Nou outfit’s second string, with Barca hopeful he can ultimately emulate their successes.
Gerard who made 140 appearances scoring 10 goals for the club during his player career has expressed his delight and readiness to carry out the new role.
“It is an honour to return to the club,” he told the club’s official website. “My family has been linked to Barcelona, I spent many years at the club and me back is better than I could spend.
“As a coach of Barca B have two major challenges – to return Barca B to the Second Division A and help youth players can climb into the first team. My experience in the academy system will be of great use to me because I can put myself into the players’ shoes. I’m eager to start work and I am sure that alongside Pep Segura, we’ll do a great job”
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Okey Emordi sacked as coach of Kano Pillars

Kano Pillars have shown coach Okey Emordi the exit door following a poor run of result that have left the defending champions 9th on the log and also being knocked out of the CAF Champions League and the federations cup. Kano Pillars have only garnered 27points from 19games – 9 points behind table toppers, Sunshine stars.
Ahmed ‘Yaro Yaro’ Garba will take charge of the team on interim basis before a new technical adviser is appointed.
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Siasia confident of victory against Congo U23

Coach of the Nigeria U23 side, Samson Siasia has expressed confidence ahead of the all-important clash with Congo U23 team in Port Harcourt on Sunday. The winner of the clash will seal a place in the 2015 edition of the African U23 championship which serves as Olympic
qualifiers for Rio 2016.

“I am very confident that Nigerians who will troop out en masse to see our match on Sunday will see one of the best displays ever by the Dream Team,” Siasia told the media at the Hotel Presidential abode of the team.
“As a team, my boys have always created chances, but our greatest problem has been to convert these chances to goals. We have been doing a lot of work in this critical area and if what I have seen in training of recent is anything to go by, then I can assure Nigerians that these boys will make them proud by scoring enough goals against the Congolese come Sunday,” he concluded.
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Hector Bellerin commits future to Arsenal

Twenty year old full back, Hector Bellerin, has committed his future to Arsenal by signing a new long term contract that will keep him at the club for another four years. Hector broke into the team first Xi last season following the injury woes of first choice, Mathieu Debuchy. He made 28 appearances and scored twice to secure the position while also winning the hearts of fans. Bellerin was signed from Barcelona in 2011 and he was promoted to the first team a year ago.
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Meet the newly constituted Super Eagles coaching crew‎

Introducing the newly constituted Super Eagles coaching crew. These are the people who would steer the ship of the national team and hopefully would help restore Nigeria’s football glory. From left to right; Assistant Coach, Jean Francois Losciuto‎, Yusuf, Sunday Oliseh and Agu.
Goodluck to them!
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William Carvalho ruled out for three months

Sporting Lisbon have confirmed that Portuguese midfielder, William Carvalho will be out for three months owing to a stress fracture in his tibia.
The 23yr old has been hugely linked to Arsenal and the injury might potentially put an end to any transfer move for him. William Carvalho helped Portugal reach the final of the U21 European championship in Czech Republic.
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Arsenal launch new away kit

The Arsenal squad unveiled next season’s away kit at Espalanade Outdoor Theatre in Singapore on Tuesday night.
Ten first-team players attended the event and, after arriving by boat, thrilled the 550-strong crowd by displaying the club’s new gold and blue kit and taking part in a series of on-stage games.
    
Here are pictures from the launch
:(Source: Arsenal.com)
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No one forced Casillas out – Florentino Perez


The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez, has dismissed claims that Iker Casillas was forced out of the club.

Perez who has been subjected to boos and criticism from the fans the perceived unfair treatment he meted out to Casillas maintained that San Iker left out of his own will. 
“no one in Real Madrid asked him to leave the club” he said

“a few days ago, he received an offer from Porto which he told us immediately and asked us to take it into consideration and agreement. There has been a lot of pressure on him in the past ten years and although I would have liked him to finish his sporting career in our club, I have to accept his decision“. ‎
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El Sharawy moves to monaco

Stephan El Sharawy has completed a one-year loan move with an option to buy at the end of the season to Monaco.
The 22yr old Italian had a medical with the French club on Monday and he secured the move that will earn Milan a fee around €16M.
The option to buy Stephan will become compulsory if he plays a certain number of games in the season for Monaco.
The CEO of Monaco, Vadim Vasilyev, has expressed his delight over the arrival of El-sharawy and he said he believes that AS Monaco will help the Italian fully accomplish his potential.
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