Sunday Sports : Africano Trumpeters’ Roundup

Sports Roundup

UFCchampionship: Nigerian born New Zealand based world UFC champion Israel Adesanya will be defending his championship belt again a Brazilian challenger later this month, the fight that’s likely to come up behind closed doors is said to fetch the defending champion a whooping 30million dollars.
Football:
Christiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Juventus of Italy will become the first-ever sports man on earth to hit a billionaire mark in dollars , in a newly projected income by the beginning of next year.

Nigerian Odion Ighalo loans stay with Manchester United fc have been extended to January 2021 , in the news released by the club management earlier in the week , an agreement was reached between Man U and Shanghai Shenshua , the owners of the player when additional fees were agreed on, the new fees was rumoured to be around 3 million dollars with add ons.

Victor Osimeh has denied the news that he has signed a five years contract with Italian based Napoli fc , in his tweets, he said he is in Nigeria mourning the death of his father presently, so he can in no way be at Italy at the same time but he is opened to a move from his present club when the transfer window opens.

The Nigeria football federation has denied the purported news circulating round that it has received the one million dollars intervention fund from FIFA , in the release by the media aid to the NFF president , Amaju Pinic, the federation said they are still expecting as at Thursday 4th of June the money after FIFA must have deducted 240million dollars being outstanding debts incurred at the last women’s world cup on hotels,flight and allowances bored on behalf of NFF by the world soccer ruling body.

The assistant national football coach of Nigeria national team, Joseph Yobo has charged the local players to up their games so as to be picked to compete with their foreign counterparts in the nearest future.

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