Drone footage shows preparations underway for the Champions League final venue

2023 preparations are already on – INEC Chairman, Yakubu

Amateur skiers train and get a taste of the sport at the Chongli ski resort in Zhangjiakou, where China will hold the 2022 winter Olympics.

Pep Guardiola praises his players past and present and the club after Manchester City reach their first Champions League final.

Timo Werner and Mason Mount score to send Chelsea into a Champions League final where they'll meet Manchester City.

Latifat Adebayo and Solomon Fowowe talk about the final before the final. A Man City vs Chelsea: Champions League final dress rehearsal for Pep and Tuchel.

Yemi Adesanya and host Solomon Fowowe talks about the Champions League final between Man City and Chelsea F.C. The chances and posible winner for the night.

Timelapse footage shows the conversion of Tokyo's Aomi Urban Sports Park, the venue for 3x3 basketball and sport climbing during the Olympic Games, into a football 5-a-side venue for the Paralympic Games. The work started on 6 August after the sport climbing competition ended, and was completed on 23 August.

Droves of armoured vehicles are patrolling the streets of Limbe in Cameroon's conflict-torn South West Region ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) soccer finals starting on Jan. 9 that separatist militants have vowed to disrupt. Cameroon is hosting the tournament in six cities, but security is potentially most at threat in Limbe, a city on the tropical Atlantic coast whose surrounding region has been rocked by armed attacks since war broke out in 2017.

Nigeria legendary footballer Daniel Amokachi has mocked Ghana over the country’s struggle to get a stadium for the first leg of the 2022 World Cup playoff scheduled for late March. The 20,000 capacity, Cape Coast stadium was initially scheduled to host the crucial fixture but the venue was rejected by CAF due to the poor state of the pitch.

European football's ruling body has said events were "distressing" and that no fan "should be put in that situation." Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron said those who missed out should be reimbursed.

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp concedes he had not been able to bring himself to rewatch last season's Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid until this past weekend, insisting reliving the experience was "torture".

Wolfsburg let a two-goal lead slip as they lost the Champions League final against Spanish giants Barcelona. The defeat raises questions about where the She-Wolves stand on the landscape of women's football.