Sun 28 May 2023: French football legend Zinedine Zidane has rejected a deal of $80 million a year to manage Saudi Pro League team Al-Nassr FC, sports news site Foot Mercato reported on Thursday. Zidane was offered a two-year €150 million ($160 million) contract to manage the Riyadh-based club for which Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo is currently playing. The former coach of Real […]
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Wed 24 May 2023: Riyadh: A video clip purporting to show Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese football player for the Saudi club Al-Nassr, kneeling (perform sujood/sajdah) like Muslim players on Tuesday after scoring a goal in a Saudi Professional League match, is going viral online. In the game that pitted the two clubs against one another […]
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The Argentinian football star Lionel Messi and his family toured the historic Al-Turaif neighborhood in Diriyah, Riyadh on May 2. Thu 11 May 2023: Speculation about Lionel Messi’s next destination has grown increasingly frenzied over the last few days, after Paris St Germain suspended him for taking an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia and […]
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Fri 05 May 2023: Lionel Messi has apologised to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and his teammates for going to Saudi Arabia on an unauthorised trip that resulted in his suspension. Messi posted a short video on Instagram on Friday to ask for forgiveness and chalk up the controversy to a scheduling misunderstanding. He missed training on […]
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Fri 05 May 2023: Thanks to his contract with the Saudi Al-Nassr Club, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has become the highest-paid athlete in the world in 2023, according to Forbes magazine. With an annual income of $136 million, the 38-year-old striker once again topped the list of highest earning athletes. He last occupied the number one spot […]
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Saudi minister of tourism Ahmed Al Khateeb welcomed Messi for his trip by posting on Twitter. Thu 04 May 2023: Argentina’s World Cup-winning captain, Lionel Messi has an official offer to sign with Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal for the coming season. A a source close to Messi told Reuters. The offer from the Saudi club […]
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Sat 29 Apr 2023: In a bidding war, Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, son of Qatar’s former prime minister and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe made their third and final bid to buy Manchester United Football Club on Friday. The deadline for submitting bids ended at 10 pm GMT on Friday for the Glazer […]
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Fri 28 Apr 2023: Qatar will host the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup, the governing body for international basketball confirmed on Friday. “The Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) has been awarded the hosting rights for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027, with all games at the prestigious tournament to be played in the city of Doha,” […]
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Sat 22 Apr 2023: A Saudi lawyer has demanded for Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrest and deportation after the football legend clutched his crotch in an apparent insult to rival supporters. Ronaldo’s teammates have stated that he is only recovering from an injury. Footage posted to social media showed the 38-year-old striker tugging his crotch upwards as […]
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Thu 13 Apr 2023: The Premier League clubs have agreed to remove gambling sponsorship from the front of match-day shirts, although the change will not take effect until the end of the 2025-26 season. Betting companies now sponsor the shirts of eight of the league’s twenty clubs. Premier League clubs will be permitted to negotiate […]
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