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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Xinhua | As Neymar is narrowing the gap with Pele, the all-time top scorer of Team Brazil, Pele hailed on social media for Neymar’s extraordinary performance in Copa America. Based on FIFA records, Pele sits first for Team Brazil with 77 goals. Neymar cut the gap …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Word Rugby body has withdrawn Uganda Rugby 7s team from the World Rugby Sevens repechage competition that runs in Monaco, France, from June 18-20. Uganda’s team that was already in Monaco was withdrawn on Thursday following a number of positive COVID-19 test results during …

Madrid, Spain | Xinhua | Real Madrid confirmed on Wednesday that central defender and club captain, Sergio Ramos will leave the club at the end of the month. The club published a brief communique on their official website saying “Real Madrid communicate that tomorrow, Thursday June 17th at 12:30 hours, there …

    France 1🇫🇷 🆚 Germany 🇩🇪 0 Munich, Germany | THE INDEPENDENT  | Mats Hummels’ first-half own goal was the difference between the sides in Munich as France, the 2016 runners-up made a bright start to UEFA EURO 2020. 🇫🇷 France are now unbeaten in their last 6 games against Die Mannschaft 👏#EURO2020 pic.twitter.com/rSDpKgjvsT …

🇭🇺 0 🆚 🇵🇹 3 Budapest, Hungary | XINHUA | Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Portugal produced a late show to kick off the defense of their European Championship title with a 3-0 win against Hungary in Budapest. The game looked to be heading for a draw as the Portuguese struggled to break down …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Football experts have predicted a bright future in the new transformed Uganda Cranes squad. The new squad is comprised of players from different clubs in the Uganda Premier League and a few players from Uganda Hippos who recently played the U-20 Afcon finals. The experts …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The new captain of the Uganda Cranes Emmanuel Arnold Okwi believes the international friendly game played against South Africa on Thursday helped them identify their mistakes before heading to 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Hosts South Africa defeated Uganda Cranes 3-2 in an international friendly …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Premier League (UPL) body has warned clubs that participate in the league over violating the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the remaining matches. The development comes after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni okayed sports to remain operating even after closing some schools and …

✳ 10.20pm – 3000m SC Albert Chemutai 🇺🇬 ✳ 11.05pm – 1500m Winnie Nanyondo 🇺🇬 ✳ 11.23pm – 5000m Joshua Cheptegei 🇺🇬 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | Long distance ace Joshua Cheptegei is confident he will beat the Wanda Diamond League meet record today as he continues his build up to the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) Electoral Committee has today declared Moses Hassim Magogo as the only duly nominated candidate for the position of FUFA President. The other members who picked forms from the Electoral Committee and did not return them include Mujib …