Sports Streamlines for VAM Friday morning 30th August 2019

SPORTS

12th AAG: Amusan breaks Alozies 20-year record, wins 100m hurdles - The Cable

12th AAG: Nigeria win five gold medals in womens wrestling - The Cable

12th AAG: Super Falconets Beat Cameroon 3-2 On Penalties To Clinch Gold Medal - Complete Sports

2019 African Games: Nigeria climbs third position on medals table, overtakes Morocco - Daily Times

2019 NNPC Upstream Tourney Tees-Off - Daily Independent

A-League and Australian football news LIVE: Luongo dominates in first Sheffield Wednesday start - Goal

AAG: Nigeria Overtakes South Africa On Medals Table - Leadership

AFA sports announces Kalu as ambassador - New Telegraph

Africa Games: Flying Eagles battle Burkina Faso for football gold - Peoples Daily

Africa Games: Nigeria Athletes Get N1.08 million for Gold, Team Sports N2.160 million - Peoples Daily.

🏵OFFICIAL: Lewandowski has signed a fresh deal at Bayern 💪 Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich legend 😍

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🎯OFFICIAL: The 2019/20 Champions League Group Stages in full. 

Which matches are you looking forward to the most? 🍿 

 Group A

🇫🇷 PSG

🇪🇸 Real Madrid

🇧🇪 Club Brugge

🇹🇷 Galatasaray

 Group B

🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham

🇬🇷 Olympiacos

🇷🇸 Red Star Belgrade

Group C

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man City

🇺🇦 Shakhtar Donetsk

🇭🇷 Dinamo Zagreb

🇮🇹 Atalanta

Group D

🇮🇹 Juventus

🇪🇸 Atletico Madrid

🇩🇪 Bayer Leverkusen

🇷🇺 Lokomotiv Moscow

Group E

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool

🇮🇹 Napoli

🇦🇹 RB Salzburg

🇧🇪 Genk

Group F

🇪🇸 Barcelona

🇩🇪 Borussia Dortmund

🇮🇹 Inter

🇨🇿 Slavia Prague

 Group H

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea

🇳🇱 Ajax

🇪🇸 Valencia

🇫🇷 Lille

💠Ajax and Chelsea have never played each other in Europe before 🤯 

🎯Cristiano Ronaldo's last two hat-tricks in the UCL: 

• May 2017 vs. Atlético Madrid 

• Mar 2019 vs. Atlético Madrid

UCL Draw 👀

🏵UEFA 2018-19 AWARD

▶ UEFA President's Award winner Eric Cantona 💪 

▶Liverpool's Alisson Becker named as Champions League Goalkeeper of the Season! 🙌 

▶Frenkie de Jong has been named UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season! 🙌 

▶England and Lyon's Lucy Bronze named UEFA Women's Player of the Year! 🙌 

▶Barcelona's Lionel Messi named UEFA Champions League Forward of the Season! 🙌

▶Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk has been named UEFA Champions League Defender of the Season! 🙌 

💠Alisson Becker becomes the first Brazilian to win an individual UEFA Club Football Award since Julio Cesar and Maicon in 2009-10. 🇧🇷

Another trophy in safe hands

▫Six goalkeepers have kept a clean sheet in a Champions League final in the 21st century:

🇮🇹 Gianluigi Buffon (2003)

🇧🇷 Dida (2003)

🇵🇹 Vítor Baía (2004)

🇪🇸 Víctor Valdés (2009)

🇧🇷 Júlio César (2010)

🇧🇷 Alisson (2019)

50% of them by Brazilians

▫Three Dutch players have won UEFA Champions League Midfielder of the Season:

🇳🇱 Clarence Seedorf (2006-07)

🇳🇱 Wesley Sneijder (2009-10)

🇳🇱 Frenkie de Jong (2018-19)

Elite company. 🤩

▫Messi 

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✓ 18-19

Lionel Messi ended a four-year wait for the UCL Golden Boot last season. 🏆

"It's great to be a part of the history of football. I am there, and of course, he is as well."

Ronaldo ❤ Messi

▫Only three players have won Champions League Defender of the Season for a Premier League club:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Terry x 3

🇳🇱 Jaap Stam x 2

🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk

Imagine that back three. 🤩

Virgil van Dijk is the first Premier League player to win UEFA Champions League Defender of the Season since John Terry in 2008-09.

Another long wait ended by VVD 🏆

Virgil van Dijk becomes the first Liverpool player to win the UEFA Men's Player of the Year award since Steven Gerrard in 2005.

Not bad company at all. 🔴

▫July 2019: Lucy Bronze is the first English woman in to be named in the top three players at a World Cup tournament. 🥈

August 2019: Lucy Bronze is the first English woman to be named in the top three of the UEFA Player of the Season. 🥇- VAM