Sports Streamlines for Thursday Afternoon 29th August 2019

SP⚽RTS UPD🅰TE📢- VAM News

By: BENSON OSADEME

🔜6 days to the HiFL Quarterfinals(1st leg) 

🆙It's UCL draw day! 👊

⌚ 6pm(CEST) =5pm (WAT)

Which 3️⃣ teams would you like to face in the group stage?

Who is going to win the Champions League this season? 🏆

Spanish clubs have won five of the last six UCL titles: 

🇪🇸 2013-14 | Real Madrid

🇪🇸 2014-15 | Barcelona

🇪🇸 2015-16 | Real Madrid 

🇪🇸 2016-17 | Real Madrid

🇪🇸 2017-18 | Real Madrid 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2018-19 | Liverpool

 

📆 ON THIS DAY: In 2012, Luka Modric made his Real Madrid debut.

Seven years, 15 trophies, and a Ballon d'Or later, he's still going strong 💪

📆ON THIS DAY:In 2009

Cristiano Ronaldo scored on his Liga debut for Real Madrid ⚪

He went on to score a record 450 goals for Los Blancos ⚪

The rest is history 🐐 

*HOT 🔥 UPDATES*

♨Man Utd defender Chris Smalling is set to leave the club to join Roma on loan, according to Gianluca Di Marzio.

The season-long loan deal will cost the Serie A side €3 million.

♨ Jurgen Klopp isn't expecting another all-English Champions League final:

"We have the same chance like everyone else, but that is all, and no I don't see us, the English teams, dominating."

Thoughts? 🤔

♨Mario Mandzukic has turned down the chance to join PSG 😲 

♨"If Pogba has a coach with a strong personality, there will be a clash. His relationship with Alex Ferguson was complicated too. When he says, 'I'm leaving', he's leaving. If tomorrow he goes to a big club like a Real Madrid, he'll still have his conflicts, even with Zizou.— The man who helped start the Man Utd star's career

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♨Defender Dejan Lovren could still leave Liverpool for Roma, with the Serie A side remaining keen on the 30-year-old Croatia international. (Corriere Dello Sport via Football.London)

♨Arsenal and England striker Sam Greenwood, 17, has been identified by Italian giants AC Milan and Juventus as a target after impressing scouts at the Under-17 European Championships earlier this summer. (Sun)

♨Manchester United will pay £300,000 of Alexis Sanchez's £400,000 a week contract while the 30-year-old Chile forward is on loan at Inter Milan.

(Metro)

♨Real Madrid's Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas, 32, is pushing for a move to Paris St-Germain. (Mirror)

♨RB Leipzig forward and Liverpool target Timo Werner, 23, still is not ruling out a move abroad in the future, despite the German forward just signing a new deal at the Bundesliga club.

(Mirror)

♨Bournemouth's Bosnia-Herzegovina keeper Asmir Begovic, 32, could leave after losing his place to 21-year-old Englishman Aaron Ramsdale. (Sun)

♨Reading's English striker Sam Baldock, 30, is the subject of interest from several clubs in Germany's Bundesliga 2, while 19-year-old English defender Tom Holmes is set to join KSV Roeselare in Belgium on loan. (Get Reading)

♨Stoke City's Belgium-born midfielder Giannelli Imbula, 26, is on the verge of a loan move to Serie A new boys Lecce. (Sport Italia)

♨2019 AAG: Team Nigeria now third with 64 medals 

 

 Team Nigeria yesterday moved from fourth to third place on the medals table of the ongoing 12th All Africa Games in Rabat after amassing a total of 64 medals. The country’s athletes added four three gold, seven silver and four bronze medals to the previous 49 to keep Nigeria in strong contention for top finish.  Team Nigeria now boasts of 24 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze medals

♨DONE DEAL: Inter have confirmed the signing of Cristiano Biraghi from Fiorentina on loan with an option to make the deal permanent

♨African Games Update: FG Splashes N46m on Team Nigeria Medalists 

♨OFFICIAL: Germany have announced their squad for their upcoming Euro Qualifiers against Netherlands and Northern Ireland

Luca Waldschmidt at the 2019 UEFA U21 European Championships:

• 5 games

• 7 goals

The Golden Boot winner earns a call-up to the National Team.