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27 Apr 2023
Nigerian businessman Shola Akinlade has purchased a 55% stake in a Danish second division club. He has ambitious plans and hopes to use the club as a pipeline for players from Africa to enter European football.
27 Apr 2023
British media reported on Wednesday that Mauricio Pochettio is set to be named as manager of Chelsea.
26 Apr 2023
Michael Essien and John Utaka fought their way to the highest level of world football, winning league titles in England and France. Now they're facing a new battle as they look to break into the world of coaching.
23 Apr 2023
Eleven Israeli athletes and one policeman died in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack. Germany reached a compensation deal with the bereaved families last year.
23 Apr 2023
Sport is strictly forbidden for women in Afghanistan, so hundreds fled into exile. Now they are demanding a direct line to the IOC with hopes of competing at the Paris Games in 2024. What are their chances?
22 Apr 2023
Oscar Pistorius, the former South Africa Paralympic champion jailed in 2016 for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, will ask a parole board on Friday to release him early from prison, lawyers and prison officials said.
22 Apr 2023
Jibrin Inuwa Baba is a highly decorated MMA fighter. His sporting career began with Dambe – a traditional martial art in northern Nigeria.Jibrin has come home to prove himself again in one of the dusty fighting pits in his hometown of Kano.
22 Apr 2023
11-year-old Syrian refugee Hussain Besou is making history as he becomes Germany's youngest ever national chess player. He will play for the German national team at the Mitropa Cup in Croatia later this month.
20 Apr 2023
Ukraine's first Olympic champion appeals to Bach for IOC to ban Russia from Paris 2024. Ukraine's first Olympic gold medallist Oksana Baiul has pleaded with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to "help us" by banning Russian athletes from competing at next year's Games in Paris.
20 Apr 2023
We look at reactions in the French papers to President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Alsace, where he confronted angry pension reform protesters.
19 Apr 2023
Novak Djokovic says he is still dealing with an elbow issue heading into this week's Srpska Open as the Serb looks to get his French Open preparations back on track following his early exit at the Monte Carlo Masters.
15 Apr 2023
Workers and the head of a French soft toy production company on Wednesday said they were proud to make the mascots for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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