Squad values heading into the World Cup underline the growing financial power of international football, with elite talent spread across Europe’s biggest leagues and beyond.

Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion have completed the signing of Nigerian teenager Zadok Yohanna from Swedish side AIK in a deal reportedly worth around £21.5 million.

Super Eagles defender Igoh Ogbu has been ruled out of Nigeria’s international friendly against Portugal after suffering an injury during training on Saturday evening.

As a young Mass Server (or altar boy as they are called these days) at St. Christopher’s Catholic School on Ikot-Ekpene Street, near the famous Mile 1 market in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, one song I loved so much in my Hymn Book back then was ‘When the roll is called up yonder’.  […]

Iran’s World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in the United States, the country’s ambassador to Mexico said Saturday.