LIONEL MESSI AVOIDS BEING SENT TO JAIL IN COURT TODAY

In the ongoing case against the Catalan player and his father amidst reports of tax evasion in Spain, the case which was to hold today was shifted to June 7th for further sitting as requested by lawyers.
Despite saying that he doesn't know about his financial dealings, his father Jorge Messi has taken responsibilities, the World best footballer will have to testify in court during the trial days.
Barcelona has since released statements supporting their hitman in the event of the trial.

As well, Messi family is making plans to sue Spanish newspaper ''El Confidencial'' on grounds of defamation after the Argentine star was linked to a tax evasion project leaked by the infamous Panama papers.

In his statement, Lionel's father has faulted the reports of tax fraud in his words on Monday "Lionel Messi has not participated in any of the acts in which he is being implicated." "The accusations saying that we have set up a new form of tax evasion and that we have created a network to launder money are false and libellous."

Barcelona fans will be praying hard for Messi. mmhmm!!

23 man England squad for Euro 2016 named

                     

England, boss Roy Hodgson, has finally settled the dust by naming the 3-Lions squad he will be taking to the Euro 2016 in a few days time. There have been intense emotions among those called up before Hodgson named his 23man list today.

BOOST FOR RASHFORD - another boost came again for the young starlet who scored for England against Australia on his debut as the game barely started. The 18-year-old was named helping to boost his psyche as he had just not long signed a new contract with his club.

UNLUCKY DRINKWATER- despite helping Leicester City to their first league title, was dropped as well as Townsend of Newcastle.

Here's the full squad list :
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Tom Heaton (Burnley).

Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).

Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal).

Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).

On 11 June in France, England will face Russia , then Wales on 16 June and Slovakia on 20 June in the group stages.

Hope they live up to expectation!

PELLEGRINI MAY LEAVE FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT AS HE WEIGHS ON HIS FUTURE

Outgoing Man City boss Manuel Pellegrino has hinted of him leaving football management if prospects in the game don't interest him. He noted this in an interview with the media despite having links of him going to Everton Fc.

Pepe Guardiola, who finished his job at Bayern, is coming to take up the helms of management at the Etihad this summer. The 62-year-old  Chilean guided City to 3 trophies in his spell with the English Side, who made a record in reaching the Semifinals of the UEFA Champions League before the eventual winner R.Madrid led them out.

Pellegrini took charge at City in 2013 and had enough resources from the Club owner to bolster the squad strength which helped them to win the Premier League of 2014 as favourite contenders Liverpool slipped in the title race.

Whichever one he wants to engage in, one can't help but wish him well!

CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND LEICESTER CITY TO SIGN GERMAN KEEPER

Ron-Robert Zieler IS ON THE VERGE OF JOINING THE English Champions so as to play Champions League football in Europe for a reported fee of  £2.6m.
The keeper plays for Hannover 96; the team was relegated. The 27-year-old goalkeeper was among the German winning Worldcup squad, but he didn't play in the games.
 But will Zieler’s arrival affect current No1 Kasper Schmeichel playing in the first team?
That is the major issue time will answer.
Starting his career in England before moving to home country Germany the 27-year-old will now be back to the English League beating prospects from Everton and Man City, who also showed interest.
German club side Hannover released a statement on their website on Sunday morning confirming that the 27-year-old has been to Leicester to perfect his move abroad.

Foxes boss Ranieri is keen to improve his squad before the defence of the League Trophy in the 2016/2017 season as could be seen in talks with Nigerian forward Ahmed Musa and central defender, Luis Hernández.
The Premier League is hitting up!!

MEXICAN WORLDCUP PLAYER KIDNAPPED IN CITY

                                 

There has been an unusual presence of Police forces in the state of Tamaulipas, which is very prone to crime related acts in Mexico.

Why are the Police heavily deployed in the state?

A monstrous evil has happened!

 25-year-old Alan Pulido, a forward for Olympiacos of Greece has been kidnapped early Sunday 29th May after Sources reported that he went for an event. He may have been abducted by drug gangsters as reports come in pending a proper investigation by security personnel.

The Mexican forward who was part of Mexico's 2014 World Cup squad left Mexico to ply his football trade in Europe in the same 2014.

It would be recalled that Carlos Osorio, National team coach recently noted that Pulido has the right quality to be on the squad, but was left off of being part of the squad to feature in the coming Copa America due to the legal dispute he has with his former club, Tigres.

However, the Tigres Club has condoled with the player's family over the sad development through one of the social media pages thus tweeting ''@TigresOficial expresa su solidaridad con la familia de @puliidooo ante la difícil situación que atraviesan.''

We at TSWL hope the player gets rescued hale and hearty.

HAMILTON BACK TO WINNING WAYS IN MONACO

Renowned Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton came back to winning ways by winning the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix with constructor Mercedes.  Daniel Ricciardo was runner-up in a keenly contested race. All contestants had to start the race of 78-laps  on wet tyres due to the rain. Hamilton garnered 25 points to emerge victoriously.
 The race held on Sunday 29th May 2016 in Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit in Monaco.

This is the seventy-fourth time that the Monaco Grand Prix had been hosted. Also, it is the sixty-third time it had been held as part of the round of the Formula One World Championship since the series started in 1950.

The number 7th in the standings Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner as he has won the past three Monaco Grands Prix consecutively from 2013 to 2015. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton took advantage as Ricciardo delayed and won the championship.

Cheers to the Briton!!!

IS CHELSEA SIGNING LEFT BACK EMANUEL MAMMANA?

River Plate FC of Argentina has thrown its doors open to Chelsea FC to come up and sign their defender Emanuel Mammana, who is interested in joining the club side. The 20-year old who has his contract with River Plate till 2019 to expire is available for Chelsea to pay a sum of up to £8m to secure his signature.
However, the London outfit will have to battle with Sera A clubs for the defender's services.
Reliable sources confided with TSWL that the player's agent Hernan has been to London to have talks with Chelsea.
Hopefully, Emanuel may be coming to London this time because Arsenal had previously shown interest in him which did not materialise but Chelsea may have to scale through this time.
Mammana has made 16 appearances for the Argentine club side in the current season.
He sure will make an impact in the English League when he's signed.

REAL MADRID GRAB THEIR 11th CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TITLE AFTER BEATING ATLETICO

It was an atmosphere of a battle between two teams from the same state, the same country–for just one thing, the UEFA trophy.
 The environment was initially that of cheers as Alicia Key opened up this year champions league final with her song(she is the first woman to do that).
 San Siro, the AC MILAN stadium and venue of this year UEFA Final already filled up as the players filed out for the game.
  An early goal from Sergio Ramos(who had created history as the only defender to score in two champion's final) in the 15th minutes put Real Madrid ahead of their opponent and the Zidane boys maintain the tempo until the end of the first half.

Atletico Madrid opened the second half with more ball possession than Real Madrid, and their effort to put the ball into the Real Madrid's net was lucky when Carrasco arrested an unbelievable crossing in the 79minutes.
More shots on targets from the Real Madrid forwarders put the Atletico Madrid stopper into a crucial test as he manages to hold on and extend the game into a 3rd and 4th half and then the penalty shootout.

Goals from all the Real Madrid penalty shooters including the last thundering shot from Cristiano Ronaldo was enough to give Real their 11th UEFA TITLE after Atletico Juanfran shot fail to hit the net.

Diego Simeone might have proved to be an exception coach after leading his side to the champion league final even though it involved winning the likes of BARCELONA AND BAYERN MUNICH but Real Zinedine has proved he his the better one.

HALA MADRID ''LA UNDECIMA'': CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE

After a very spirited play in Milan, 120 minutes was not enough to get an eventual winner for the 2015/2015 Champions league cup, the winner was finally decided in a penalty shootout. The Los Blancos outfit saw themselves to their ''Undecima''  European Champions League glory.

Real Madrid opened the scoring in the 15 minute by Ramos assisted by a Bale header. However, Atletico fought on in the first half trying to get an equaliser which didn't go through.
Three minutes into the second half saw Griezmann hitting his penalty unto the goal post bar and coming off speedily. Later replays showed that the referee didn't make a right call on the penalty which was missed.
Atletico fired on from all angles which saw Carrasco slotting in a cut-in pass from JuanFran in the 79th minute putting the game at levels.
After 90 minutes, no winner emerged despite Real Madrid pushing in and trying to get a late winner at the San Siro.

The game entered into the extra time with none of the teams scoring.
Then the penalty shootout was the eventual decider.
Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show as he scored the final winner of the shootout after Juanfran missed his shot as his ball hit the side bar of the goal post.
 Atletico Madrid has now missed in clinching the European Cup  starting from the 1974 final which they lost in a replayed game to Bayern Munich to losing in Lisbon two seasons ago and a repeat in Italy to same Real Madrid neighbours.

Thus, Real Madrid wins their 11th European Crown with Manager Zinedine Zidane making the history.

CHELSEA BABA RAHMAN STAR WEDS HEARTTHROB SALMA IN GHANA.

Chelsea left back; Baba Rahman has tied the wedding knots in Tamale Ghana with his long time girlfriend, Salma, in what was described as 'secret wedding'.
Probably, this has dashed the hopes of many young Ghanaian maidens who may have been looking up to the former Augsburg player who signed from Germany to England for Chelsea not long ago.
Baba has since last summer he joined Chelsea fc made 17 appearances for the London club

According to reports, Salma who is an undergraduate in one of Ghana's higher institutions is set to move up to London to live with her husband when she finishes her education.
The 21-year-old looks set to a good season with new boss set to take charge at his Stamford Bridge club.
Salma joins the list of 'wives of African football players based in England'.
We wish them a happy married life.