During the week, exciting football activities went down and more will still happen this weekend. Every player who has been called up for national duties, will continue to boost their careers, maintain or rekindle great patriotism to the various countries they choose to represent.
Records were broken as various players and countries achieved what has never been recorded in the history of football, countries with great football history experienced shocking defeat by their opponents and entertaining actions occupied the world of football just days into the international qualifiers and other competitions.
Record Breakers
Cristiano Ronaldo: The five times prestigious most individual award (Balon D’or) winner, who featured in the Portugal Vs Croatia match during the week netted a goal for his country Portugal as they won by 2 goals to 1. After scoring, he immediately had his name written down in history as a player scoring 900 career goals. Not long from now, about a week ago, he was awarded a UEFA award as one who scored highest UEFA champions League goals throughout the existence of the premium competition.
San Marino’ s Victory: Though San Marino doesn’t draw any attention to any football achievement over the years, a story of victory was recorded as they defeated Liechtenstein by one goal to nothing. This victory now make them leaders of group D1 in the European Nations League. Founded in 301 AD, San Marino is a small independent republic completely surrounded by Italy and the country is located in the Apennine Mountains near the Adriatic Sea. They’ve been losing and have never recorded any significant win in their last 141 previous competitive matches, but a 53rd minute goal from a 19 year old ” Nicko Sensoli”, recorded the historic moment for the country.
Top Match Results so far
Denmark Vs Switzerland: On the fifth day of September, 2024, Switzerland were defeated by 2 goals to nil by Denmark in the European Nation’s League (League A). Nico Elvedi in the 52nd minute received a straight red card while Granit Xhaka got a second yellow in the 87th minute of the game. Switzerland clearly were in a state of dilemna during that fixture as they were down to 9 men. Denmark on the other hand were more advantageous and they made a good use of the opportunity to punish the Swizz. Philip Dorgu was the first to put the Danes ahead in the 82nd minute, and the lead was doubled by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the 92nd minute and it was victory all the way for Denmark.
France Vs Italy: Things turned sour for France as they suffered a humiliating 3-1 defeat against Italy yesterday in the UEFA Nations League “League A” match. An early goal from Bradley Barcola came in for the French but Federico Dimarco leveled the scoreline in the 30th minute for Italy to keep the scoreline 1-1 half-time. Davide Frattesi doubled it for the Italians in the 51st minute after half-time through an assist from Matias Retegui and in the 74th minute, the scoreline turned 3-1 after an assist from Destiny Udogie saw Giacomo Raspadori score the 3rd and final goal of the match.
Egypt Vs CapeVerde: After a dissapointing exit of Egypt from the last edition of the African cup of Nations, the Egyptians yesterday whipped CapeVerde 3 goals to nothing in a qualifying match for the next Nations Cup competition. With 15 goal attempts, 57% ball possesion, and 468 completed passes, their performance was measurably impressive and a win became necessary for the Egyptians.
Rami Hisham Rabia, Omar Marmoush, and Ibrahim Adel, got the three goals in the 23rd, 46th, and 70th minutes respectively.
South Africa Vs Uganda: It was a dramatic and tough one for the South African National team as they were forcefully held by the Uganda Cranes. Lyle Foster got the opener for South Africa in the 14th minute and the Cranes fought hard by not only getting an equalizer in the 51st minute but they also gave a challenging performance to take the lead two minutes after retaliating. Denis Omedi scored the leveler and Rogers Mato got the 2nd for Uganda while the Bafana Bafana abated the disgrace after Thalente Mbatha got the goal that saved the day.
Late Transfer Move
After flooding the world of football with so much transfer rumour, Nigerian international, Victor Osimhen finally got a loan move to Turkish football side Galatasaray. At first, it was looking like a dead end for the one time African footballer of the year as Napoli football club under new coach Antonio Conte seemed not to be having any interest in the Nigerian forward. Transfer window pressure was beckoning and waves of career embargo almost made his move impossible but this move brought a feel of releief to football fans all over the world.
