The Champions League finalists were the last African team standing going into this final Group F encounter and though they certainly troubled their Brazilian opponents, they fell short of making the final 16.   Mamelodi, known as the Brazilians [...]

League champions Ludogorets completed the domestic double after a costly error by CSKA captain Thibaut Vion gave them the victory. The CSKA fans formed the vast majority in the stadium but their spectacular performance in the stands was not [...]

This was the 56th season of the Slovak Cup and it was a rerun of the 2024 final between the holders, Ruzomberok and Spartak Trnava. It was played in sunny Dunajska Streda, some 50km south west of the capital, [...]

Somewhat unusually for recent times, four clubs from four different countries will battle for a place in the UCL final, to be staged at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena on May 31. Despite Arsenal’s comprehensive elimination of the holders, Real [...]

Three of the last four in this years’ UEFA Europa League semis might well have been predicted as it comprises Premier League Manchester United and Tottenham as well as the putative hosts, Athletic Bilbao. But the other club would [...]

Ulm has at least two claims to fame. It was the birthplace of one of the greatest-ever physicists, Albert Einstein. And its gothic Ulm Minster towers some 161 metres making it the tallest church spire in the world. The [...]

Liechtenstein are in a qualifying group alongside Wales, Belgium, North Macedonia, and these opponents Kazakhstan. Being one of the undoubted minnows within UEFA they will always face a struggle despite causing occasional surprises against much more superior countries. This [...]

Reports from the Portuguese League(s) with the focus on African players. In particular how representatives from Mali, Nigeria, Cape Verde, and the Ivory Coast featured in the Liga Portugal. Liga Portugal. 1.Estrela Amadora 2 Vitoria Guimaraes 2. If you [...]

This Group C encounter in the Nations League ended in a damaging loss for Armenia, who like Romania had been demoted from Group B. The result, matching their 2-0 win in Skopje, gives Bobi Milevski’s side total control of [...]

Maybe it was ‘written in the stars’. Once they had survived two group stage defeats, a range of fightbacks and a change of coach mid-tournament the Ivory Coast’s name seemed to be on the trophy. In the end, in [...]