It was an unsuccessful outing for Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets as they crashed out of the 2023 U-17 AFCON in Algeria after they lost 2-1 to Burkina Faso in the quarter-finals on Thursday.The result means the Eaglets will not be at this year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup.Burkina Faso complete Africa’s representatives at the World Cup after Senegal, Mali and Morocco booked their tickets.The Eaglets had the first big chance of the game on eight minutes but Abubakar Abdullahi’s sup...

The Swiss football administrator was first elected to the office during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress in February 2016FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been re-elected for a third term of four years at the 73rd FIFA Congress in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, after no challengers opposed his candidacy.FIFA Presidents are limited to three four-year terms in office, which means the 52-year-old who was first elected to the highest football office in February 2016 wi...

The previous agreement between the two parties had been due to expire in May 2023, and Liverpool had held talks with cryptocurrency firms in recent months about potentially taking over from Standard Chartered next year.However, they have now reached a four-year deal with Standard Chartered, which will come into effect next year. The new agreement is worth £50m per year – a major increase on their previous £40m-a-year deal. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp confirmed the n...