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Leidy Asprilla, a 22-year-old soccer player who had represented Colombia in youth international tournaments, was found dead off the side of a road yesterday. Several days after she was reported missing. Police found Asprilla’s body near her motorcycle in a ditch off a road that leads from El Cerrito to …

Former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany will become Anderlecht’s player-manager following his departure from the Premier League champions, the defender has confirmed. The 33-year-old, who began his professional career with the Belgian club in his home nation, returns to the First Division A side after an absence of 13 years, …

Tiger Woods is the target of a new lawsuit claiming the golf star allowed his Florida restaurant to over-serve alcohol to an employee who struggled with alcoholism, which led to his death. Nicholas Immesberger, 24, worked as a bartender in Woods’ restaurant, The Woods, in Jupiter, Florida, which is run by Woods’ girlfriend, Erica Herman. According to …

Premier League champions, Manchester City are set to be handed one-year ban from Champions League by UEFA.   An investigation into accusations that Manchester City misled European soccer’s financial regulators in pursuit of its success on the field is expected to recommend that the team be barred from the Champions League, European …

Liverpool’s defender Van Dijk wins the Premier League Player of the Season following his outstanding performance this season. This is another individual award just days after the 27 year old player won PFA Players’ Player of the season. Van Dijk beat the likes of Raheem Sterling, Eden Hazard and Mohamed …

President Donald Trump on Monday evening awarded golfing legend Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor at the White House following his fifth Masters’ victory last month   The president in his speech said that Woods, 43, is ‘one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports’ …

Flamboyant footballer and Juventus striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, has reportedly bought one-off Bugatti La Voiture Noire, which is reported to be the world’s most expensive car ever built. Reports suggest Ronaldo has spent €11million (£9.49million) on the unique Bugatti which was first presented to the world at the Geneva Motor Show 2019. Spanish sports paper Marca reports …

Nigerian defender, Nura Abdullahi has been forced to retire from football due to a heart problem and his youthful career will be terminated at the age of just 21.   He is currently in talks with Roma over the cancelling of his current contract. Last March, Roma advised Abdullahi to quit football …

Paris Saint-Germain and Brazilian football star, Neymar has been handed a three-match Champions League ban by UEFA. After a controversial VAR decision to award Manchester United a last minute penalty against Paris Saint-Germain in their last-16 tie in March, he told the VAR officials to ‘Go f*** yourselves’ on social media Neymar wrote in an Instagram story: …

Horacio Sala, 58, has died of a heart attack three months after his son Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash on his way to Cardiff. The father of Premier League footballer Emiliano Sala suffered a heart attack on Friday, April 26, 2019, his friend and president of his local club …