The head coach of the Golden Eaglets Nduka Ugbade said his team would have won against Burkina Faso if they had converted their chances. The Eaglets lost 1-2 to Young Etalons in the quarter-finals of the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria. The defeat meant elimination from the tournament, and ending the World Cup ticket ambition for the five-time …

Just Fontaine, the all-time top scorer in a single FIFA World Cup finals with 13 goals, has died aged 89, his family told AFP on Wednesday. Fontaine achieved the record in the 1958 finals in Sweden where France reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history, losing to Pele’s Brazil. Part of a wonderful attacking trident at that …