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Nigeria’s Obafemi Martins Sets New Goalscoring Record In America

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Nigeria and Seattle Sounders forward, Obafemi Martins has set a new club record after scoring his fifth consecutive goal on Sunday night.

The goal was not enough to secure a win for his side, however, the 32nd minute strike against Sporting Kansas City Martins in the history books with Fredy Montero, as the only players to have netted in five straight games.

Obafemi Martins is the highest paid African Player in the money spinning American Major League Soccer league.

Having scored against against Portland Timbers, Toronto, San Jose Earthquakes, Vancouver Whitecaps and Sporting KC, the former Inter Milan hitman has been on a scoring spree since August 30.

If he scores in their next game against LA Galaxy on Monday, the ex-Wolfsburg star man would have scored in six straight games and set a new in the MLS.

He is also 4 goals shy of beating his single – season scoring record of 17 goals which he set in the 2014 campaign.

Obagoal, as he is fondly called by admirers, has also won his first major trophy with his club when they defeated Vancouver Whitecaps in 3-0 to win to clinch the Cascadia Cup 2015.

Breaking News!!! Arsenal Boss Arsene Wenger Breaks Up With Wife

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, 65, has split from his wife Annie, 59. The couple got married in 2010 but have been together for years and have an 18 year old daughter together. They are said to have agreed a financial package and divided up their assets after Arsene filed for legal separation in a French court.

Wenger, who previously admitted that his high pressured job with Arsenal had put pressure on his marriage has not been seen with Annie since 2013, which led to speculations for months that all was not well between the couple. Their split have now been confirmed.

…… I guess he did this to enable him focus more on Arsenal… lol

Mourinho Set To Dump Chelsea For Shock PSG Move

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If reports from the French capital are anything to go by, Chelsea’s manager, Jose Mourinho may be set for a shock move to Paris Saint-German.

Daily Post reports that the Champions League winner with Inter Milan, is likely to be prised away from the Stamford Bridge after it appeared that the Portuguese tactician has cut a frustrated figure following his team’s dismal start to the English Premier League season.

Although the Chelsea boss has won two matches in quick succession after failing to win any in four, reports are rife that he may yet be on his way out of the North London side as PSG are ready to pay through their anus to take him away from Chelsea next summer.

His team’s 2-0 defeat of Arsenal has moved them up seven places to thirteenth on the log, but the one time FC Porto coach is believed to favour a move away from the Bridge, despite the fact that he only recently signed a four-year deal at Chelsea.

Laurent Blanc, who is presently in charge of the French Ligue 1 defending champions, is said to be living on borrowed time, and will be sacked if he refuses to mount a serious Champions League challenge.

After the team’s win against Arsenal, the Chelsea boss, who faces five-match ban over $exist allegations, mocked Arsene Wenger, stating that the team was always moaning after losing to his side.

Enyeama, Mikel recalled for Eagles’ friendlies

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Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has called up 24 players for next month’s international friendlies with Congo and Cameroon.

Enyeama missed out on Nigeria’s last two fixtures against Tanzania and Niger Republic, supersport.com reports.

The Lille OSC goalkeeper was bereaved following the death of his mother and asked to be excused from both games.

He will now return to captain the three-time African champions in the fixtures against Congo and Cameroun in Belgium.

The squad:

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Lille OSC, France); Carl Ikeme (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England); Ikechukwu Ezenwa (Sunshine Stars); Femi Thomas (Enyimba FC).

Defenders: Leon Balogun (FSV Mainz 05, Germany); Abdullahi Shehu (Uniao da Madeira, Portugal); Elderson Echiejile (AS Monaco, France); Chima Akas (Sharks FC); Godfrey Oboabona (Caykur Rizespor, Turkey); William Troost Ekong (FK Haugesund, Norway); Kenneth Omeruo (Kasimpasa SK, Turkey); Austin Oboroakpo (Abia Warriors).

Midfielders: Ogenyi Onazi (SS Lazio, Italy); Paul Onobi (Sunshine Stars); Obiora Nwankwo (Coimbra FC, Portugal); John Mikel Obi (Chelsea FC, England); Rabiu Ibrahim (AS Trencin, Slovakia).

Forwards: Ahmed Musa (CSKA Moscow, Russia); Emmanuel Emenike (Al Ain, UAE); Sylvester Igbonu (FC UFA, Russia); Moses Simon (KAA Gent, Belgium); Victor Moses (West Ham United, England); Odion Ighalo (Watford FC, England); Prince Aggrey (Sunshine Stars).

EXCLUSIVE: First Photos Of Mikel Obi's Twins - Has 3 Children From 2 Different Women

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For the past few weeks there have been speculations that Chelsea star Mikel Obi had fathered two children from different women.
According to reports, Mikel – who is in a relationship with Russian girlfriend Olga Allegra – had fathered two children, a 4-year-old boy and a 1-year-old daughter.
There was no confirmation from him about this. He also did not debunk the rumours.
The 28-year-old football star however shared a photo of months-old twins on Instagram today and the congratulatory messages have been pouring in from his followers.
He captioned the photo ‘My whole world in my arms Welcome to the world my angels #pooh3 #pooh4 #twins’ and he tagged his girlfriend in the photo.
Cute babies.

Messi, Neymar, Suarez break Barca goal record

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Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez have now scored an incredible 102 goals in all competitions for Barcelona this season, after netting five of the club’s six against Getafe on Tuesday night, Sky Sports reports.
That’s a Barcelona club record for an attacking trio, surpassing the 100 goals scored by Messi, Samuel Eto’o and Thierry Henry in the 2008/09 treble-winning season under Pep Guardiola.
With at least seven games left to play this year – potentially eight, should they reach the Champions League final – Messi, Neymar and Suarez still have plenty of time to further extend that record.
And after the trio combined in fine fashion against Getafe – each scoring and providing an assist in the same game for the first time – there’s every chance they’ll do just that.
Messi, Eto’o and Henry fired Barcelona to an unprecedented La Liga-Copa del Rey-Champions League treble in 2008/09. Guardiola’s team was littered with star names in their pomp: Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, Yaya Toure, Carles Puyol, Gerard Pique. Yet it was the devastating forward line that grabbed the headlines throughout the season.
Braces from Henry and Messi helped Barca hammer title holders Real Madrid 6-2 at the Bernabeu in La Liga, while the Argentine was again on target in a 4-1 thrashing of Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final. Samuel Eto’o scored 30 times in the league, before hitting the opener against Manchester United in the Champions League final in Rome, where Messi headed in a fine second.
In total, Messi – who won the Ballon d’Or for the first time at the end of 2009 – scored 38, Eto’o 36 and Henry 26 as Barcelona swept all before them. Club president Joan Laporta labelled them the ‘best team in the history of Barca’.
This season, the treble is on again, with Barcelona five points clear in the league, set to face Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final – and Guardiola’s Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Across all competitions, Real Madrid’s attacking trio of Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo had actually scored the same number of goals as Barcelona’s frontline on April 11 – 88. In fact, Carlo Ancelotti’s men had four more La Liga goals to their name at that stage.

However, since then Barcelona’s trio have scored 14 in five, while Real’s three have scored one in four. Of course, injuries to Benzema and Bale have hampered B-B-C, but, nevertheless, Messi, Suarez and Neymar have scored their 102 in a combined 129 appearances, while it has taken Real’s forwards 134 appearances to score their 89 (including the Club World Cup and Spanish Super Cup).
None of Europe’s leading lights can offer an attacking trio to compare statistically with the Catalans this season.
Bundesliga champions and top scorers Bayern Munich have netted 77 goals in the German top flight this season but, across all competitions, top scorers Robert Lewandowski (23), Thomas Muller (20) and Arjen Robben (19) have scored ‘only’ 62 between them.
Paris Saint-Germain – who Barcelona knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals – have scored more than any other French side in Ligue 1 but Zlatan Ibrahimovic (28), Edinson Cavani (24) and Ezequiel Lavezzi (eight) have netted 60.
Meanwhile, the three top scorers at Premier League hotshots Manchester City, Sergio Aguero (27), David Silva (11) and Yaya Toure (10) have managed fewer than half the number of Barcelona’s trio – 48.