Jadon Sancho’s career has had more turns than most players manage in two decades. He left England’s academy system as a teenager to chase first-team football in Germany, returned home for £73 million, fell out publicly with his manager, and then spent three seasons on loan at Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea and Aston Villa, winning a…
In the summer of 2015, Crystal Palace sent Antoine Semenyo home after an eight-week trial. Eleven years later he is a Manchester City player with an FA Cup final winner on his record and a place in Ghana’s squad for a World Cup. Ghanaian fans were searching for him again this week after a night…
Few African strikers have carried as much weight on their shoulders as Victor Osimhen. At Galatasaray he is the club’s record signing and the front man of a side that has won back-to-back Turkish league titles. For Nigeria he is the vice-captain and, going by current records, the second-highest scorer in the national team’s history….
Victor Wembanyama is a French professional basketball player who plays for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. Chosen first overall in the 2023 draft, he has been described by scouts and commentators as one of the most unusual prospects the league has seen, because he combines a height of more than seven feet with…
Diogo José Teixeira da Silva, known as Diogo Jota, was a Portuguese forward who played for Paços de Ferreira, Porto (on loan), Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool, and won 49 caps for Portugal. He died in a road accident in Spain on 3 July 2025, aged 28, together with his brother André Silva, weeks after helping…
Lionel Messi spent the first week of October 2026 saying goodbye to Argentina and the second week scoring twice for Inter Miami. The 39-year-old played his 208th and last match for his country on 6 October, a 3-0 friendly win over Benin in Buenos Aires, then returned to Major League Soccer, where he leads the…