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  The 2024/25 edition of the UEFA Champions League will follow a new and different pattern. What will change? what will stay the same? what it means for fans and how it impacts UEFA’s other club competitions. Since the inaugural competition, known as the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, kicked off in 1955, UEFA has continuously evolved and adapted the Champions League to keep pace with wider changes in the game To ensure the new 2024/25 format will deliver the best for clubs, players and fans, UEFA based its design on extensive consultations with key stakeholders in the European football community. The reforms received unanimous backing on 19 April from both the European Club Association (ECA) Board and the UEFA Club Competitions Committee -composed of a majority of club representatives. "This evolved format will still keep alive the dream of any team in Europe to participate in the UEFA Champions League thanks to results obtained on the pitch and it will enable long-term viability,...

Exceptional Robert Lewandowski has won the Best FIFA Men's Player award on Thursday night during a virtual ceremony.   The Polish and Bayern Munich striker, 32, who enjoyed an historic treble-winning season with his club, winning the Champions League, the Bundesliga, and the German Cup in 2020, broke up Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi's dominance to scoop the award.    He also scored 55 goals in just 47 games last season and finished as the top scorer in the league, cup, and Champions League

Denis Popov, a 17 year  old goalkeeper was one of a number of teenagers who had to step in with the first team suffering from coronavirus. It was so unfortunate that Rostov were thrashed 10-1 by Sochi on Friday, but their teenage goalkeeper Denis Popov set a new all-time Russian Premier League record for a stunning individual performance. They had actually gone 1-0 up in the first minute of the game, but were eventually beaten by nine goals away from home. Aleksandr Kokorin scored a hat-trick, Antonin Zabolotny and Dmitry Poloz bagged two each, while Andrei Mostovoy, Ivan Novoseltsev and Nikita Koldunov all got on the scoresheet. Rostov released a statement after seeing themselves go viral, explaining the result. It read: “A lot of supporters of our club who don't speak Russian cannot really understand how today's tie could end with a 10-1 score." “We would like to explain. Six players of our club have been infected with coronavirus, and thus, the entire team had to be qua...

The ex-super eagles striker, Yakubu Ayegbeni says Nigerians are yet to forgive him for his miss against South  korea  at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in  South Africa. The major talking point of the game was Ayegbeni’s unbelievable miss from three yards into an open goal, after rolling the effort wide with goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong completely beaten. Luckily for him, he redeemed himself after slotting in the Super Eagles’ leveller from the penalty spot after Kim Nam-Il’s clumsy tackle on Chinedu Obasi.

Tevez scored a 72nd-minute winner to lift Boca to a 1-0 victory over Maradona's Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata and to the title after River Plate's draw at Atletico Tucuman. Carlos Tevez revealed he kissed

FIFA has announced its proposed restrictions on international loan transfers will come into effect in July 2020, pending approval from the FIFA Council.

The Barcelona Legend has decided on when he wants to quit the club and even has a successor in his mind already.