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The League Management Company (LMC) ahead of the 2020/21 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season, has certified 13 stadiums across the country to have met minimum requirements to host games as part of the broader club licensing regime. They also recommended 11 others for varying degrees of upgrade and repair works before they can be certified. This was revealed to the clubs in a memo which the LMC sent out on Friday, October 30. The memo read in part, “in line with the CAF Circular of July 26, 2020 on stadium infrastructure among others, which was forwarded to you and the need to meet up with the requirements of high quality television production by our new partners, the LMC has reviewed various reports submitted on the state of our stadia across the country”.  

Jose Mourinho  the current Tottenham boss and urged the club's fans to lower their expectations on their reunited striker Gareth bale whom was recently resigned on loan from the Spanish side real Madrid. He revealed on Saturday that the Welshman cannot be the same explosive player who left the English Premier League (EPL) club to join Real Madrid seven years ago, that he is building up his fitness and has played three games in all competitions this season. “Seven years is a long gap. So, which player in the world is the same as he was seven years ago? Sometimes they’re not better or worse, just different players,” Mourinho told reporters. “You look for example at (Cristiano) Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi and compare them with seven years ago. They play in different areas, different pos...

According to the protocol approved by the Technical-Scientific committee, asymptomatic people with a low viral load are allowed to leave self-isolation after 21 days as it is impossible for them to infect other people. This is now in favour of the legendary Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo, as he has been in self isolation for the last 18 days since he tested positive, Ronaldo has never had symptoms and has remained in quarantine. According to reports he is set to return from isolation in three days time. The Juventus striker, however, would not be able to play a competitive game until he has one negative swab test.

In preparation for the upcoming season, Kwara United has gone an extra mile to sign Lucas Alves, a Brazilian winger, as one of their players for the upcoming 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season. As he was unveiled on Monday at the club’s office inside the Kwara State Stadium Complex in Ilorin. Lucas Alves last played for Seahorses LA of the United States, he expressed his happiness after being unveiled and promised to give his best performance for Kwara United in the up coming season.

Juventus has announced on Saturday that their whole squad has gone into isolation after two staff members tested positive for CoronaVirus. They were scheduled to host Napoli on Sunday, and also confirmed that those returning positive tests were “neither players nor members of the technical or medical staff”. “This procedure will allow all members who tested negative to the controls to carry out regular training and match activities, but will not be allowed contact with outside the group,” the club revealed.

The Nigerian super eagle's striker Victor Osimhen has been substituted by the The Nigeria Football Federation in the upcoming Super Eagles friendly games against Tunisia and Algeria. The real reason has not been revealed yet, but it is believed that this is a safety measure taken to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 in the Super Eagles camp. Osimhen’s Serie A club Napoli discovered this week that midfielders Piotr Zielinski and Eljif Elmas had contracted COVID-19, with the squad’s other players returning negative tests. His substitute, Onuachu, is currently in good form in the Belgian Jupiler League with Genk. His goal in Saturday’s draw at Waasland-Beveren was his seventh of the season, in his seventh game which sees him lead the league’s top goal scorer’s charts.