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BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) - Nigeria has moved five places up, now 47th in the world and sixth in Africa with 635 points in the April edition of the FIFA/Coca Cola world rankings released on Thursday. In the previous...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) - Cristiano Ronaldo showed nerves of steel to score an injury-time penalty and send holders Real Madrid into the semi-finals of the Champions League in dramatic circumstances. The Spanish side progressed to the last four...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) - Five more African athletes may have vanished from the Commonwealth Games, organisers said Thursday, after eight competitors from Cameroon were suspected of fleeing a day earlier. Gold Coast organisers confirmed reports that athletes from...

SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 11, (THEWILL) - Kostas Manolas sent Roma through to the semi-finals of the Champions League after an incredible 3-0 victory over Barcelona at the Stadio Olimpico on Tuesday saw them overhaul a 4-1 first-leg deficit and...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, (THEWILL) - Nigerian para powerlifter Roland Ezuruike has won the country’s first gold medal of the Commonwealth Games. Hours earlier, the country had won two silver medals from table tennis and shot put. However, Ezuruike took the...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 09, (THEWILL) - Seye Ogunlewe and Enoch Adegoke on Sunday qualified for the men’s 100m final of the athletics event at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Ogunlewe qualified for the final despite finishing third in his semi-final,...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 06, (THEWILL) - Ramsey and Alexandre Lacazette scored two goals each as Arsenal humbled Russian club CSKA Moscow in the UEFA Europa League first leg quarter-final match on Thursday at the Emirates Stadium. The Gunners romped towards the...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 05, (THEWILL) - FC Barcelona capitalised on two disastrous own goals of AS Roma to thrash the Italian side 4-1 at the Nou Camp on Wednesday. The victory helped them to take a huge step towards reaching...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 04, (THEWILL) - Football’s ruling body FIFA is testing three possible new rules including yellow cards for coaches at youth tournaments, according to Deputy Secretary-General Zvonimir Boban. Boban told Wednesday’s edition of German weekly Sport Bild that coaches...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 04, (THEWILL) - Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in 10 successive Champions League games as he struck twice for holders Real Madrid in a 3-0 win at Juventus in Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg. The Portuguese...