The DR Congo-born attacker known as Silas Wamangituka is actually called Silas Katompa Mvumpa and was born on 6 October 1998, making him a year older than his documents stated. As reports from BBC sport states that he taked his identify and has finally opened up.
DR Congo-born Silas Katompa Mvumpa
Silas said he was put under pressure by a former representative and has been “constantly living in fear”. He plays for Stuttgart who have made contacts with the Bundesliga and German FA regarding the issue.
Stuttgart said they have been “working intensively”, along with the 22-year-old and a new agent, and received official documentation from the Democratic Republic of Congo a few days ago.
Mvumpa, who scored 13 goals in all competitions last season to help Stuttgart finish ninth and was voted this year’s Bundesliga rookie of the season.
A moved to Stuttgart in 2019 saw him help the club gain promotion to the Bundesliga. Silas was threatened and blackmailed by his old agent…
He used and manipulated Silas. Guess it happens quite often with young African players. Sad but this story would go a long way to encourage others with similar situations.
“Over the past few years, I was also very worried for my family in Congo,” Mvumpa said.
“It was a tough step for me to take to make my story public and I would never have had the courage to do so if Stuttgart had not become like a second home and a safe place to me,” he added.
After almost 19 months since the last face-to-face meeting in November 2019, Premier league shareholders met today in Harrogate to discuss a wide-ranging agenda which include strengthening of European Super League sanctions, VAR, government’s fan-led reviews and COVID-19 updates ahead of next season.
According to information published on Premier league official Twitter account, Shareholders today approved rules to further protect the League against future competition breakaways.
At the Premier League’s Annual General Meeting today, Shareholders discussed a range of matters and recommitted to build on the collective of all 20 clubs to benefit the wider game.
Following yesterday’s agreement between the Premier League, The FA and the six clubs involved in the proposals to form a European Super League, Shareholders today approved rules to further protect the League against any future competition breakaways. Clubs in breach of the new rules will be subject to significant sanctions.
In addition, the Premier League, supported by The FA, is taking the following actions to protect our game, our clubs and their fans from further disruption and uncertainty:
• Additional rules and regulation to ensure the principles of the Premier League and open competition are protected
• A new Owners’ Charter that all club owners will be required to sign up to, committing them to the core principles of the Premier League
• Breaches of these rules and the Charter will be subject to significant sanctions
• We are enlisting the support of Government to bring in appropriate legislation to protect football’s open pyramid, principles of sporting merit and the integrity of the football community.
new clubs for 2021/22 season were welcomed.
Today the three promoted clubs – Norwich City, Watford and Brentford – can say they are officially part of the Premier League. That means The three clubs who were relegated in 2020/21 – Fulham, Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion – transfer back the share certificates that gave them Premier League status.
The Premier League Board of Directors then confirm the cancellation of these shares.
A new share certificate for each of the promoted clubs was signed by the Premier League directors and company secretary. As required under company law, the three clubs then enter into the share register.
As a result, the confirmation of the three promoted clubs as members of the Premier League is made at the AGM, with the League formally welcoming them as they are awarded their framed share certificates.
The Premier League table has been reset with the 20 clubs sorted in alphabetical order, while the Premier League’s social media accounts now follow those of the three promoted clubs.
All 20 clubs can now look forward to 09:00 BST on Wednesday 16 June, when they will discover their fixtures for the 2021/22 season.
According to reports from BBC sports, a political slogan which was displayed on Ukraine’s Euro kit, has been ordered to be removed by UEFA. This comes after Russians protested against it.
The shirt, containing a map showing Russian-annexed Crimea as part of Ukraine also included the phrase “Glory to the heroes”.
European football’s governing body had previously approved the kit.
However, they now say the combination of the map and wordings inside the shirt clearly has “historic and militaristic significance” So has ordered it be removed.
Gundogan won the Premier League and Carabao Cup with city this season.
With two years left on his current deal, Sky Sports News has been told that no discussions were planned with Gundogan this summer.
The 30-year-old midfielder, who was the club’s top goalscorer scoring 13 goals in the Premier League in the 2020-21 season. He is with Germany ahead of delayed Euro 2020.
Meanwhile, Barcelona are one club that have been linked with a possible summer move for the midfielder. He was Pep Guardiola’s first signing at City in 2016 when Gundogan joined from Borussia Dortmund.
The meeting due to hold on Thursday June 10 would have a wide-ranging agenda which include strengthening of European Super League sanctions, VAR, government’s fan-led reviews and COVID-19 updates ahead of next season.
The meeting is set to takes place in Harrogate, and will be the first time club chiefs have met in person since six clubs failed in a controversial bid to join an unregulated European Super League in April.
Senior officials from all 20 clubs lastly met each other in person since November 2019 but they have been holding regular virtual meetings due to coronavirus restrictions since March last year.
Newly promoted Norwich, Watford and Brentford will formally receive their Premier League ‘share’ for next season, with parachute payments approved for Sheffield United, West Brom and Fulham, who were relegated to the Championship as per reports from Skysports.
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters is expected to provide an update on the organisation’s strategic and governance reviews, the owner’s charter, as well as Tracey Crouch’s fan-led review.
The ongoing legal dispute with Newcastle, over a proposed takeover, is not expected to be discussed according to Skysport reports.
Fulham and Cameroonian sensational midfielder Zambo Anguissa is eyed by Italian side Napoli. Napoli adds to the list of Anguissa’s latest suitor with the likes of Everton, Aston Villa, Arsenal, Leeds United and fellow Italian side Lazio.
Zambo Anguissa in Cameroonian shirt.🇨🇲
Reports from kick 442 and Italian based news medias has it that Napoli officials have reached out to their English counterparts of Fulham FC to discuss business on Anguissa. 25-year old Cameroonian midfielder Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa plays for Recently-relegated Fulham FC.
The €25 million-rated midfielder was one of the most performant player at the Fulham in the just-ended season.
According to stats published by kick 442, the player greatly improved during the 2020/21 Premier league season recording three assists and created four big chances for his teammates, as well as making an average of 1.6 interceptions, 2.2 tackles and winning 7.3 duels per game over his 36 top-flight matches this term.
Anguissa plays for just relegated Fulham
These returns saw the midfielder earn an average SofaScore match rating of 6.91, enough to rank him as Parker’s 10th-best performer in the Premier League last season.
The player has 4 international goals for cameroon with his latest against Nigeria in a friendly in Austria. He is left with a two-years contract at craven cottage as going to Italy would mean starting a new life since he has only played in Cameroon, France, Spain and England.
Napoli are considering Anguissa as a replacement for Tiemoue Bakayoko, who will return to Chelsea after his loan season.
Since the departure of Jose Mourinho, who was sacked in April and has since replaced his fellow Portuguese, Paulo Fonseca at Roma. spurs as put trust in former player Riyad Mason who has been in charge of managing the club until a new coach is seen.
Paulo Fonseca
According to BBC sport reports, Spurs are yet to agree a deal with Fonseca, and having reached advanced talks with Antonio Conte only for the deal to collapse, there is wariness.
Fonseca impressed at Roma but lost his job after a seventh-placed finish.
Fonseca who has a very good CV as a coach.He replaced Claudio Ranieri at Roma after three years with Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine. The Portuguese also coached Porto and Braga in his homeland.
He won three successive doubles in charge of Shakhtar between 2016 and 2019, as well as a Portuguese Cup with Braga in 2016 and a Portuguese Super Cup with Porto in 2013.
His potential move to Tottenham bears the hallmarks of significant involvement from the club’s new sporting director Fabio Paratici, who has joined after 11 years at Juventus.
This transfer gossips are according to BBC sports with all sources mentioned.
Achraf Hakimi.
Chelsea want to sign Inter Milan and Morocco right-back Achraf Hakimi. The 22-year-old has been subject of a bid from Paris St-Germain. (Times, subscription required)
Former Liverpool and Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez is a serious contender for the vacant Everton job. (Mail)
Barcelona are weighing up a move for Manchester City and England winger Raheem Sterling, 26, who is seen as an ideal replacement for France international Ousmane Dembele if the 24-year-old does not renew his contract. (Sport)
Tottenham are in talks with Borussia Monchengladbach’s French winger Marcus Thuram – son of World Cup winner Lillian – ahead of a possible summer move. (RMC Sport – in French)
Spain goalkeeper David de Gea, 30, expects to stay at Manchester United beyond the summer. (Sun)
Arsenal have joined Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United in wanting to sign Brighton and England defender Ben White, 23. (Mirror)
Roma are closing to completing the signing of Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka, 28, from Arsenal. (Corriere dello Sport – in Italian)
RB Leipzig’s Austrian midfielder Marcel Sabitzer, 27, who has previously been linked with a move to Tottenham, wants to leave the Bundesliga club and could leave for around £15m in the summer. (Athletic, subscription required)
Burnley have agreed a new contract with manager Sean Dyche, 49, who set to be backed in the summer transfer window. (90min)
West Ham have stepped up efforts to sign Jesse Lingard on a permanent deal from Manchester United after the 28-year-old England midfielder missed out on selection for the European Championship. (Sun)
Leicester City are up against Wolfsburg and Lyon in attempt to sign Bournemouth’s 24-year-old Dutch winger Arnaut Danjuma. (Voetbalzone – in Dutch)
Southampton are close to finalising a deal for Brest’s 23-year-old French left-back Romain Perraud – who has previously been linked with Leeds – but an unnamed club may yet hijack the move. (Express)
Belgium and former Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini, 33, is set to extend his stay at Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan. (La Derniere Heure, via Calciomercato – in Italian)
Leeds United are keen on signing Fulham’s 26-year-old English midfielder Harrison Reed in the summer. (Mail)
Newcastle’s English winger Jacob Murphy, 26, is wanted by Galatasaray. (Sun)
Southampton’s English goalkeeper Angus Gunn, 25, is close to joining Norwich. (Athletic, subscription required)
Roma boss Jose Mourinho has made Torino and Italy striker Andrea Belotti, 27, his top transfer target. (Goal – in Italian)
Spanish defender Sergio Ramos, 35, hopes he can recommence contract talks with Real Madrid and is open to a one-year contract extension after previously holding out for a longer deal. (AS)
Deportivo Alaves are keen to renew the loan stay of Manchester United’s 19-year-old Uruguay winger Facundo Pellistri. (Noticias de Alava – in Spanish)
The Euros is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men’s national teams of the members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), determining the continental champion of Europe.
The competition has been held every four years since 1960, except for 2020, when it was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Founded in 1958, 63-years ago,scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations’ Cup, changing to the current name in 1968.
A total of 54 teams across Europe are eligible for the competition and after qualifications are played just 24 teams make it to the tournament itself.
The idea for a pan-European football tournament was first proposed by the French Football Federation’s secretary-general Henri Delaunay in 1927, but it was not until 1958 that the tournament was started, three years after Delaunay’s death.In honour of Delaunay, the trophy awarded to the champions is named after him.
The UEFA European Championships (EURO) 2020 was originally scheduled to take place from June 12 to July 12, 2020, but, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it was decided on March 17, 2020 that the tournament would be postponed by one year to be held from June 11 to July 11, 2021.
The Euros first took place in 1960 and have taken place every four years since. So far, there have been 15 tournaments, making EURO 2020 (held in 2021) number 16.
This year’s Euro has something different from the others, for the first time in the tournament’s history, the matches are not to take place in one (or two) countries, but across 11 countries all over Europe.
Wembley is the biggest stadium for this year’s Euro with 24 teams taking part as Spain and Germany stand as highest winners of the competition both winning it in three occasions. The 15 European Championship tournaments have been won by ten different national teams.
Wembley would host this year’s Euro finals
Germany and Spain each have won three titles, France has two titles, and the Soviet Union, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have won one title each. To date, Spain is the only team in history to have won consecutive titles, doing so in 2008 and 2012.
It is the second most watched football tournament in the world after the FIFA World Cup. The Euro 2012 final was watched by a global audience of around 300 million.
The most recent championship, hosted by France in 2016, was won by Portugal, who beat France 1–0 in the final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis after extra time. The final also averaged 284 million viewers which is the second most viewed game in European tournament history
The most valuable team in this year’s Euro is England as Mbappe is the most valuable player with a value of €160.
According to statista.com, this year’s projected revenue stands at 2.5B Eur after an estimated 300M Eur was lost due to the competitions postponement. Last edition’s revenue was 1.9B Eur.
All time highest goal scorers in the competition are France’s Michel Platini and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo with 9 goals each.
The best scenes of last euro edition. CR7 and Portuguese coach.
After Argentina officially withdrew from hosting the tournament due to covid-19 surge, South American Football Confederation Conmebol moved the tournament from Argentina on 1 June to Brazil barely a weak and a half to it’s start.
Copa America host Brazil
Brazilian players have criticised the decision to hold the Copa America in their country but say they wouldn’t boycott.
“For different reasons, be they humanitarian or professional, we are not satisfied with the way the Copa America has been handled by Conmebol,” the players said.
According to Brazilian media reports, the team were unhappy at not being consulted about the decision. But the players’ statement said they had never considered boycotting the tournament.
Reports from BBC sports states that, the statement, was posted on the players’ personal social media accounts, appeared soon after the team beat Paraguay 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier in Asuncion – the first time they had won in the country since 1985.
Brazil has recorded the second highest number of deaths attributed to coronavirus more than 475,000 in the world after the US. Meanwhile, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has defended the decision to allow the tournament to go ahead in his country, insisting it did not pose a health risk.
Copa America 2020 kick-off June 13
The 10-nation tournament kicks off on Sunday June 13 with the new hosts facing Venezuela in Brasilia. All 28 games will be shown live on the BBC as the tournament ends on July 10.
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