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Nigeria’s Women’s World Cup Dreams Once Again Come to an End in the Round of 16
Only one African team has reached every single Women’s World Cup since the tournament’s introduction in 1991: Nigeria. Having been eliminated in the group stage in their first two attempts, they reached the quarterfinals in 1999, their best-ever finish, but they would exit the group stage on four straight occasions before falling to Germany in…
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Lesley Ugochukwu: Chelsea’s Latest Ligue 1 Recruit
Chelsea rarely do business quietly, as evidenced by their drawn-out pursuit of Moises Caicedo and eventual Premier League-record transfer, but when reports emerged that the Blues had agreed a £23.5 million deal with Rennes for 19-year-old midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu, journalists were left scrambling for information on the Frenchman. No puff piece, no smear campaign, no…
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Bruno de Carvalho: The Donald Trump of Portuguese Football
Donald Trump’s four-year administration as the President of the United States ended in infamy, with Trump refusing to concede defeat after losing to Joe Biden, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud, trying to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, obstructing the democratic transition and mounting various unfruitful lawsuits. This reached a boiling point on January…
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Nottingham Forest vs Sheffield United Preview, Team News, Tickets & Prediction
Nottingham Forest vs Sheffield United is a replay of the 2022 EFL Championship playoff semi-final which Forest won. The Tricky Trees would then go on to claim the playoff title and win promotion to the Premier League for the first time in decades. Sheffield, meanwhile, would toil for one more season in the second tier…
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Bernard Tekpetey: Ludogorets’ Ghanaian Dynamo
Born in Accra, Ghana, Bernard Tekpetey began his footballing journey playing in the streets with his friends and working his way up the ranks at the Ghanaian second-tier side Unistar Soccer Academy, before leaving his homeland at 18 years old and joining Schalke. He made his debut on November 24, 2016, winning a penalty that…
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It’s Time to Give Women’s Football the Respect It Deserves
A simple search for women’s football on any video or social media platform inevitably brings up two categories of videos. We either have the comedy videos with footballing mistakes, Piers Morgan spouting rubbish and pieces on why women athletes should not be paid as much as men, or the other category which is the objectifying…
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Six Teams in Europe You Should Be Keeping an Eye on for This Upcoming Season
We all love surprises and we all love telling our friends I told you so after our favourite wonderkid breaks through or we get a surprise team right, so here are my picks for the teams that will surprise us all next season. Aston Villa If you watched the back end of last…
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The Top Five Rangers Signings of the Last Ten Years
It’s been a long journey for Rangers over the last ten years, from playing in the lower leagues of Scottish football against part-time teams to winning their 55th league title, a Scottish Cup and reaching a European final. Along the way, key players played an important part on their way back to the top of Scottish…
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Same Difference: Position of the Season 2022/23 / Part One
The goal of this series is to describe a position of play that had the most pervasive impact on teams’ success across European football during a given season. When looking for commonalities and/or trends in style of play among successful European club teams in the 2022/23 season, it is hard to look past the roles…
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Analyzing RC Strasbourg Alsace’s Transfer Window
Following an extremely underwhelming 2022-23 season, Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace have been active in this summer’s transfer market to help strengthen their squad. After being purchased by Chelsea FC owner Todd Boehly and his group, Boehly is beginning to build a multi-club system for Chelsea similar to Premier League competitors Manchester City. Boehly hopes…
