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London, UK | Xinhua | Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola said on Friday that he was totally “convinced” the club was innocent of charges of flouting financial fair-play regulations, but added that he believed it had “already” been sentenced in the minds of many. Speaking to the press for the first time …

🌟 #TotalEnergiesCAFCL ⚽ Raja Casablanca 5 Vipers 0 REST OF GROUP C FIXTURES ⚽ Vipers vs Horoya Feb 18 ⚽ Vipers vs Simba Feb 25 ⚽ Simba vs Vipers March 7 ⚽ Vipers vs Raja March 17 ⚽ Horoya vs Vipers March 31 Casablanca, Morocco | THE INDEPENDENT | Vipers SC were Friday night given a rude …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua |  The International Transfer Snapshot of January released by FIFA on Thursday confirmed the recovery of the global transfer market. A total of 4,387 international transfers in the men’s football hit a new high in January after the Transfer Matching System was introduced in 2010. This is the …

🌟 #TotalEnergiesCAFCL  ⚽ Raja Casablanca vs Vipers 10pm (Sanyuka Prime) Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s representatives in the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League, Vipers FC will on Friday play Raja Casablanca in the opening tie at the Complexe Mohammed V in Morocco. This is the first continental test for new coach Beto …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Rodney Swigelaar, the Africa director of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), is visiting Kenya to discuss the progress of the country’s efforts to fight against doping. Hosted by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), Swigelaar is scheduled to address various stakeholders in sports, including the government …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Japanese prosecutors arrested a former operations executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee and three others on Wednesday over bid-rigging accusations, local media reported. Tokyo prosecutors arrested the former senior official, Yasuo Mori, on suspicion of being a key player in the anti-monopoly law …

Los Angeles, U.S. | Xinhua | Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James broke NBA’s all-time scoring record, held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for nearly 39 years, in the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. With the last 14 seasons for the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar, six-time NBA MVP, scored 38,387 points …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Federation of Uganda Football Associations-FUFA is considering four countries to host the Uganda Cranes ahead of the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Decolas Kiiza, the FUFA Deputy CEO in charge of Football says that they are eying Egypt, Malawi, Zambia, and South …

London, UK | Xinhua | Premier League champions Manchester City have been charged by the Premier League with a series of breaches of the competition’s financial rules. The Premier League issued a statement on Monday morning confirming it had “referred a number of alleged breaches of the Premier League Rules by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The war of words between Sarah Babirye Kityo, the president of the Uganda Netball Federation, and Dr. Patrick Ogwel, the General Secretary of the National Council of Sports General is far from over. Kityo has made fresh allegations accusing Ogwel of asking for kickbacks whenever disbursing funds to facilitate …