Author: Wayne Lumbasi

Wayne Lumbasi Senegalese superstar Sadio Mane heads a list of 10 nominees for the African Footballer of the Year award, to be handed out later this month for the first time in three years. The players in the final 10 are; Sadio Mane, Achraf Hakimi, Naby Keita, Karl Toko Ekambi, , Riyad Mahrez, Mohamed Salah, Edouard […]

Wayne Lumbasi Hosts Morocco and Zambia secured their first ever World Cup tickets after progressing to the semi-finals of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations with victories over Botswana and Senegal respectively on Wednesday. Morocco’s victory in Rabat gave them their first-ever semi-finals in WAFCON history after overcoming an exciting Botswana side 2-1. Playmaker Fatima Tagnaout was the […]

Wayne Lumbasi Chelsea are in talks to sign Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly as they try to rebuild their defense. The Senegal international has been on the radar of many top clubs but will join the premier league club in this transfer window. The Blues lost Antonio Rudiger to Real Madrid and Andreas Christensen to Barcelona this […]

Wayne Lumbasi Wayne Rooney has embarked on a new managerial journey in Major League Soccer. He has become a new head coach of the DC United team based in Washington, where he spent two seasons as a player. Rooney was a captain of the DC United team during the 2018 and 2019 football seasons. The American club is the first team […]

Wayne Lumbasi Olympic gold medalist Sir Mo Farah has revealed he was illegally trafficked to the UK as a nine-year-old, flown over from Djibouti and that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.  In a BBC documentary to be aired on Wednesday “The Real Mo Farah”, the athlete says that in fact he was trafficked to London in the […]

Wayne Lumbasi Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been charged with fraud over failure to declare more than $477 million assets he held overseas to the British tax authority. He was ousted as a Formula One supremo in 2017 when U.S.-based Liberty Media took over the sport’s commercial rights with a more economy-based vision, transforming the pinnacle of motorsports into a global […]

Wayne Lumbasi Namibia has qualified for 2023 Rugby World Cup by beating Kenya 36-0 in the Rugby Africa Cup final. They qualify as Africa 1 and take their place in Pool A alongside Rugby World Cup 2023 hosts France, New Zealand, Italy and Uruguay. Namibians have been in fine form in the south of France, winning their […]

Wayne Lumbasi Just as Charles Leclerc’s championship’s hopes were drifting slowly away, his seven-race winless run ended with a much-needed victory in Austria, spoiling the party for tens of thousands of Max Verstappen’s orange army.  Despite struggling with technical problems later on due to a faulty throttle, Leclerc held just enough pace to keep Red […]