Ronaldo makes very rare Appearance With Beautiful Long-time Girlfriend, As they Steps Out In Style at LFP Awards![Photos]

They have been dating since 2010 and they stepped out in style on Monday night for the Professional Soccer League (LFP) Awards at the Principe Felipe auditorium in Madrid, Spain where the Real Madrid forward Won several awards including Best Player, Best Forward and Best Goal for the 2013-14 Liga BBVA season. 

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Breaking News! Captain of South Africa’s national team Senzo Meyiwa Shot Dead

 

So Sad! Captain of South Africa’s national team, Senzo Meyiwa has been shot dead according to multiple sources in South Africa. Although details are still sketchy, the Orlando Pirates Goalkeeper was shot dead early Sunday morning.

His death has since been confirmed by the South African Football Association (SAFA).

SAFA spokesperson Dominic Chimhavi confirmed the death of 27-year-old according to Super Sport.

Meyiwa who also captains Orlando Pirates still played yesterday,  on Saturday at Orlando stadium in their Telkom Knockout 4-1 quarterfinal win over Ajax Cape Town

Photo: Wilkisky/BackpagePix

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Pinnick Elected New NFF President

After all the confusion that has trailed the election of a new president for the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Delta State FA chairman, Amaju Pinnick, has been elected as the new boss of the Nigerian football house.

According to the voting process held in Warri, Delta state on Tuesday, 30 September, 2014, Pinnick, who is also the chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission, became the new NFF boss through a run-off process after he could not get the two-third of votes in the first round of voting.

Supersport reports that the 43-year-old football administrator got 32 of the 44 votes in the run-off after polling 25 in the first round of voting during the NFF elective general assembly.

It was gathered that the vice chairman of Lobi Stars and former Nigeria international, Dominic Iorfa, ended up in second place with eight votes in the run-off after he initially received six votes in the first round of voting.

New NFF boss, Amaju Pinnick.

Former NFF secretary-general Taiwo Ogunjobi, who finished a distant second with nine votes in the first round of voting, came in third position with four votes after the run-off.

Also, a former NFF vice president, Amanze Uchegbulam got four votes, while Mike Umeh and Abba Yola ended the polling process without any votes.

Meanwhile, the seventh aspirant, Shehu Dikko, was declared withdrawn from the NFF presidential election by the football federation’s electoral committee since he was absent.

Speaking to journalists after the elction, Pinnick said: “I am so excited winning the election and I will make sure I lift Nigerian football high when I assume office.”

Prior to the commencement of the election, there have been rumour that voting might not hold following a court order halting the elective congress of the NFF holding today.

It would be recalled that the world football governing body, FIFA, had given Nigeria up till today for a new president of the NFF to be elected.

This is after the country had been suspended and the suspension lifted by FIFA following the removal and reinstatement of former NFF president, Aminu Maigari.

With the election of Pinnick as the new NFF president today, it is hoped that the new board would put their acts together and get to work  as the Super Eagles and the Super Falcons are have continental engagements next month.

The Eagles are expected to play Sudan (away and home) in 2015 Nations Cup qualifiers while the Falcons would compete at the 2014 African Women Championship holding in Namibia.

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Ronaldo, Leo Messi target Champions League goal record

THE Champions League returns Tuesday and Wednesday with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi competing for yet another prize as the rival stars take aim at the tournament’s all-time scoring record.

  While the world’s top two players continue their individual battle, three of England’s four teams seek their first win, and the Spanish and Italian champions clash this week in Europe’s top-tier competition.

Here are the things to know about this week’s Champions League group games: 

  Ronaldo and Messi are neck-and-neck in a race to become the Champions League’s all-time leading scorer by breaking the record held by Raul Gonzalez.

Ronaldo has 68 goals in Europe’s top club competition, one more than Messi. Raul scored 71.

  Ronaldo may have a better chance of getting there first as Real Madrid plays at Bulgaria’s Ludogorets in Group B tomorrow (Wednesday), a day after Messi’s Barcelona has a tougher trip to Paris Saint-Germain in Group F.

  The Portugal forward looks primed to increase his goal haul in Sofia after scoring 10 goals in his last six matches, including one four-goal performance and a hat trick.

  Messi, meanwhile, scored his 400th and 401st goals for club and country in Barcelona’s 6-0 rout of Granada on Saturday. 

  Their latest two-man contest comes after they have divvied up the Ballon d’Or for the world’s best player for the past six years and have taken turns leading the Champions League in scoring for the past seven seasons.

  PSG not only has the problem of stopping Messi. It may have to do so without striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

  When Ibrahimovic has been sidelined, the team has won only 40 percent of its matches. And coach Laurent Blanc is sweating on his fitness after Ibrahimovic missed the last two games because of a left heel injury.

  ‘’I don’t know which attacking players I will have available against Barcelona,’’ Blanc said. 

‘’We don’t play the same way when Ibra’s here and when he isn’t. For the time being there is still a question mark. The medical staff will do everything to try and heal him.’’

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Martins to sign new deal

Red-hot Nigeria striker Obafemi Martins is set to sign a new improved two-year contract extension with MLS side Seattle Sounders worth $12m, africanfootball.comreports.

The contract of the former Levante forward will expire at the end of the year, Sounders striker Obafemi Martins will likely be staying in Seattle with a deal worth $6m a year, which is more than double his current wage, according to nbcsports.com.

The increase in wage will make the Arsenal nightmare the eighth highest paid designated player from the ninth-highest designated Player he is at present.

He is enjoying himself in the MLS, with 13 league goals so far and five regular season matches still to go.

He’s only scored double-digit league goals one other time in his career, with Newcastle in the 2006/07 season when he bagged 11.

Martins has wanted to stay in Seattle for a while now, not-so-subtly campaigning for a new deal since the summer.

Martins has been invaluable to his club this year in a number of ways, as he and Robbie Keane are the only MLS players in the top 10 in both goals and assist.

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