Sports Minister

Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has written to the French prime minister and sports minister calling for the “hasty decision” to cancel the Ligue 1 season to be reversed.

President of the Nigerian coaches Association Coach Issa Ladan Bosso has confirmed that the coaches union is in talks with both NFF and the Sports Ministry in order to help the vulnerable members.

Following the recent intervention of the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, by way of giving financial and material support to the families of former Nigeria internationals, the Ministry has written the NFF and mandated it to come up with a welfare plans for players.

South African sports minister Nathi Mthethwa has revealed that he wants the country’s Football Assocation (SAFA) and the Premier Soccer League (PSL) to work together and remain on the same page as far as resuming the 2019-20 season is concerned.

Serie A teams will be able to start individual training sessions as of Monday amid the COVID-19 crisis, according to a letter sent by the Italian interior ministry to local authorities.

Players from several Italian football clubs were on course to resume individual training as the Mediterranean country prepared to gradually roll back its coronavirus lockdown.

All 20 Serie A clubs have unanimously signalled their desire to complete the 2019-20 season, according to widespread reports.

Italy’s Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said on Wednesday the country’s top-flight Serie A soccer championship looks unlikely to resume this season because of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave the go-ahead on Sunday for professional sports teams to start training again in May following the novel coronavirus outbreak but did not set a date for soccer’s top-flight Serie A championship to resume.

Italy’s sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora said Thursday he was “very, very doubtful” that Serie A action would return as hoped in early May.

John Obi Mikel insists he will not accept any offer to return to Trabzonspor after he sensationally quit the Turkish top flight earlier this week over their handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the postponement of the National Sports Festival, Edo 2020, as a precautionary move against COVID-19 spread.

After a meeting between representatives from all Italian team sports federations, the National Olympic Committee said in a statement the government should intensify its measures against the virus.

The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has ordered that no Nigerian Professional Football League, NPFL, match should go ahead without the presence of paramedics.

Aaron Ramsey starred as Juventus beat title rivals Inter Milan 2-0 on Sunday to reclaim top spot in Serie A in a game played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Youth and Sports Minister Mr .Sunday Dare has expressed deep shock and sadness on the deaths of two ex Nigerian Internationals Sule Kekere and Kabiru Baleria.

Nigeria track and field athletes have demanded for the payment of all allowances owed by the impeached president of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Ibrahim Shehu Gusau.

The under-fire president of France’s ice skating federation Didier Gailhaguet resigned on Saturday over his handling of accusations that a former national coach raped a top skater when she was in her teens.