Henrikh Mkhitaryan was in the right place at the right time to give Roma a precious victory away to Sampdoria, further consolidating fifth place.

Roma Manager,Jose Mourinho is proud of his team for their victory against Sampdoria as he wants Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Bryan Cristante to stay,he also stated that ‘any other coach would be praised for our fantastic football!’

Mkhitaryan was in the right place at the right time to give Roma a precious victory away to Sampdoria, consolidating further on the fifth position.

The Giallorossi are now unbeaten in 10 Serie A games, they used the same XI that crushed Lazio 3-0 in the Derby della Capitale, although this time Nicolò Zaniolo was injured rather than dropped, joining Leonardo Spinazzola and Jordan Veretout on the absentee list, while Sampdoria missed Sebastian Giovinco, Manolo Gabbiadini and Mikkel Damsgaard, with Albin Ekdal not fully fit either.

Mourinho had never won or even scored a goal at Marassi, so this was a first for the former Inter Milan coach.

Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel’and his wife, Sissi, have parted ways after 13 years of marriage.

Tuchel and Sissi married in 2009 when he was living and working in his native Germany.

Sissi worked as a journalist in Germany but is said to have given up her job to raise her and her husband’s two daughters.

The whole family moved to France after former Mainz and Dortmund boss Tuchel took over at Paris Saint-Germain in 2018.

They then relocated to the UK in August, seven months after Tuchel had become Chelsea manager.

Two months earlier Tuchel, his wife and their two children were all pictured together on the pitch at the Estadio do Dragao in Portugal after Chelsea won the UEFA Champions League final against Manchester City.

Daily Mail reported that Sissi who gave up her job as a journalist at the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung to bring up their family started the divorce proceedings last week.

Meanwhile,Tuchel has vowed to stick with the c despite The Blues’ inability to sell tickets for games, sign players or give new contracts to existing players, due to the sanctions placed on Abramovich.

It has been a roller coaster journey for Celtic as they move six points clear in the Scottish Premiership title race after goals from Tom Rogic and Cameron Carter-Vickers saw them come from behind to beat Rangers 2-1 at Ibrox.

Rangers were quick off the mark and just after captain James Tavernier curled a free-kick past the far post, Aaron Ramsey gave them the lead, while on-loan Juventus midfielder fired home a cross from Ryan Kent on his first Old Firm appearance.

Kent almost added to the scoreline soon after, but his close-range effort went just past the post.

However, Tom Rogic levelled on Celtic’s first real attack in the seventh minute.

The game ended 2-1 in favour of Celtic.

Celtic will be at home against St Johnstone on 9 April in the final round of Scottish Premiership fixtures before the split, while Rangers are away to St Mirren on 10 April.

Australia strengthened their status as the premier international sports team on the planet by outclassing England to win the Women’s World Cup.

The Australians shattered records in Christchurch on their way to adding the 50-over title to the T20 World Cup and Ashes crowns they already hold.England, who were huge underdogs to defend the title they won in 2017, will regret their decision to field first in perfect batting conditions. 

They also dropped Healy and Haynes in the same over.

Awesome Australia were crowned world champions for the seventh time with a perfect record of nine wins from nine matches.

Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye returned to action after being forced to withdraw from Nigeria’s squad that faced Ghana in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup playoffs following a positive test for COVID-19.

Okoye was left out of the Super Eagles squad that missed the World Cup ticket to the Black Stars of Ghana.

Fans even alleged that the former Fortuna Düsseldorf goalkeeper deliberately missed the playoffs to avoid being under scrutiny after he was blamed for Super Eagles’ ouster at 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.

The Watford bound keeper was impressive behind the sticks as Sparta Rotterdam faced Hereenveen in a Dutch Eredivisie match on Sunday.

Okoye put up a great shift in the 1-1 draw.

The 22-year-old was in impeccable form for Sparta in March, keeping a clean sheet in their two league games.

World soccer ruling body FIFA has banned Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja indefinitely, following the pitch invasion by angry fans, the Stadium will not be used for international matches indefinitely.

This comes as a result of the ugly incident that followed the failure of the Super Eagles to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup at the expense of Ghana’s Black Stars.

The angry fans invaded the pitch, wreaking havoc and destroying the newly refurbished stadium.

Though, FIFA had indefinitely suspended the usage of the stadium, there are insinuations that Nigeria will still suffer further sanctions as FIFA and CAF are yet to meet to ascertain further sanctions to be meted out to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for failing to provide adequate security for the game.

It would be recalled that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Disciplinary Committee, in May 2006,sanctioned Nigeria with a $5,000 for poor crowd control at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna, where the Super Eagles hosted Egypt in a Gabon 2017 African Nations Cup qualifier in March.

The organisers of the match allowed a crowd of over 40,000 inside the stadium designed to hold 25,000 spectators.

The Super Eagles and the Pharaohs drew 1-1 in that game, with the Egyptians subsequently defeating Nigeria 1-0 in the return fixture to stop the Eagles from qualifying for the competition.

Also at the 2000 African Cup of Nations tournament co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana, Nigeria was sanctioned by CAF following crowd encroachment on the pitch in the Quarter Final match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Teranga Lions of Senegal at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The game had gone on extra time with Julius Aghahowa scoring a goal that fans thought was a Golden goal.

In wild jubilation, they invaded the pitch before security operatives restored calm for the resumption of the match, however
Nigeria was heavily fined for that breach of security.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Super Eagles moved up two places in the latest World football governing body, FIFA, monthly ranking despite failing to qualify for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

The former African champions are ranked the 30th best team in the world and they also retained their third place in Africa.

Super Eagles former captain Austin “Jay Jay” Okocha, will join other football icons as draw assistants for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup draw on Friday.

Despite the fact that the Super Eagles failed to make it to the 2022 World Cup, the former captain will be one of the eight stars that will assist when the draw for the final competition is made in Doha on Friday.
He is also joined by a former Super Eagles coach to the France ‘98 World Cup, Bora Milutinović a dual citizen of Serbia and Mexico.

The full line-up of assistants will also include Adel Ahmed MalAllah (Qatar), Ali Daei (IR Iran), Rabah Madjer (Algeria) and Tim Cahill (Australia).

The event will be staged at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center and will get underway at 19:00 local time 6pm in Nigeria.

FIFA World Cup champions Cafu (Brazil) and Lothar Matthäus (Germany) will team up with six more assistants for the final draw to reveal the groups for the 2022 edition of football’s global showpiece.

The eight draw assistants will be supported by a conducting team comprised of two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup™ champion Carli Lloyd, football pundit and former England player Jermaine Jenas, and British-Jamaican sports presenter Samantha Johnson.

Ex- International Ezeugo Blames Former Eagles Stars For Nigeria’s Football State

Emeka Ezeugo, a former Nigerian International who represented the country in the FIFA World Cup in 1994 has blamed former Super Eagles Stars for helping Amaju Pinnick led administration push the country’s football back to one of its dark ages.

“I blame Jay Jay Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo, Mutiu Adepoju, Peter Rufai, Alloy Agu, Samson Siasia, Augustine Eguavoen, Victor Ikpeba, Emmanuel Amunike, and all ex footballers who collected appointments and positions from Amaju Pinnick led NFF,” he said.

“They are all part of the problems, they are the ones that have killed Nigerian Football,” he added.

This is coming following the disappointing performance of the Super Eagles of Nigeria against the Black Stars of Ghana in Abuja where they failed to pick the ticket for the biggest footballing showpiece in the world,the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Reactions has continued to trail Nigeria’s failure to secure a spot in this year’s FIFA World Cup with the latest one coming from Emeka Ezeugo a former Nigerian International.

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has advocated for the sack of the current Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

The former Abia State Governor made this statement after Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

The Super Eagles crashed out thanks to away goal rule, after the two legged game with Ghana ended 1-1.

“What a sad night for all soccer lovers! It is high time the entire Management of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) is overhauled,” Orji Uzor Kalu wrote via Facebook.

“In the past five years, we have exercised patience with incompetence that should ordinarily be the best, not just in Africa, but the world. The reality is that football is the same with science courses like Medicine and Engineering where you can’t cut corners, otherwise, you produce quack and incompetent people.

“The Federal Government and Nigerians have supported the NFF beyond measures and since they can’t give us the needed result, they should be sacked for a better and more tactical management,” he concluded.

Portugal qualified for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup thanks to Bruno Fernandes double goals in their play-off final win over North Macedonia.

Fernandes won the ball in midfield, played a one-two with Manchester United team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo and fired home from the edge of the box to open the scoring in Porto.

He then volleyed in Diogo Jota’s cross for the second having helped start the move himself outside his own box.

The Macedonians, who stunned Italy in the semis, offered little throughout.

They never looked like reaching a first World Cup as they failed to test Portugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa once.

Portugal qualify for their sixth World Cup in a row with 37 year old Ronaldo,going to the tournament for a fifth and potentially final time.

Fernando Santos has led his country to Euro 2016 and the 2019 Nations League and is now targeting their first ever World Cup crown.