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  Antoine Griezmann bade farewell to Atletico Madrid fans on Sunday night, May 17 after playing his final home match for the club, and apologised again for his decision to leave for Barcelona in 2019.    The 35-year-old is joining MLS side Orlando City at the end of the season after 10 seasons with the Rojiblancos, split in two by an ill-fated move to join the Catalan giants. Griezmann gave a speech on the pitch after Atletico beat Girona 1-0 in La Liga, with the French forward setting up the only goal for Ademola Lookman.   “I know many of you have (forgiven me), but some still haven’t, so I apologise again. I didn’t realise how much love I had here, I was very young, and well, I made a mistake. I reconsidered and we did everything to come back here and enjoy it again.”   Griezmann joined Atletico from Real Sociedad in 2014 as a left winger but became a world-class striker under coach Diego Simeone. The forward is Atletico’s all-time top goalscorer with 212 str...

  An Albanian murderer has been found secretly living in the UK for a second time despite having been booted out more than a decade ago.   Afrim Sinani, 54, was seen at a high street last week and has been traced to a suburban address. His new neighbors are probably oblivious to his vicious past, according to Mail Online.   Sinani sh0t a man in a revenge killing and was jailed for 20 years in 1996. But he escaped and, with his wife, entered the UK illegally on a lorry in 2000.   He lived in Ilford, Essex, with his wife and three children before he was tracked down and extradited to Albania in 2010.   According to new report, he is now back in the UK, living with his family in a council-owned home in north east London, where properties have sold for more than £400,000. His extradition came after a years-long international manhunt. Using the fake name of Afrim Pulaj, Sinani had been granted asylum and a British passport after lying about being a Kosovan refugee. ...

  An Oregon creep with a staggering 166 arrests dating back to his teens has finally been sentenced to life in prison.   Joshua Cory Nealy, 41, was slapped with the hefty life sentence without possibility of parole on Friday for a January 2023 arrest where he flashed a female clothing store employee and a security officer, according to a news release from the Washington County District Attorney’s Office.   Nealy was already on parole when he strolled into the Washington Square Mall in Portland and started schmoozing with a skeptical clothing store clerk.   The repeat offender sifted aimlessly through the store and collected a random assortment of clothes. He asked the female clerk for assistance while he was nude in the store’s changing room — then “opened the door fully and exposed himself to her,” the release said.   Nealy invited the woman to have sex and attempted to cajole her into the dressing room. The victim quickly flagged down a security officer, who N...

  Super Eagles goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye has been named Udinese’s Player of the Season following an outstanding campaign with the Serie A club. The Nigerian goalkeeper earned the recognition for his consistent and impressive performances for the Zebras throughout the season. Okoye missed the opening two months of the campaign after being suspended over an alleged match-fixing scandal. However, the shot-stopper bounced back strongly to reclaim the club’s number one position. He delivered a series of standout displays, particularly against Italian giants Juventus and AC Milan. The 26-year-old kept 10 clean sheets in 29 league appearances for Udinese this season. Okoye has also been shortlisted for the Serie A Player of the Month award for May.      

  Former Super Eagles captain William Troost-Ekong will assist with the qualification draw for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, which will be staged in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, 19 May. Troost-Ekong will be joined by three other African legends: Max-Alain Gradel, Essam El Hadary, and Trésor Mputu.   The qualification draw will take place at the headquarters of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA). The AFCON 2027 finals will be co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, and will be played from 19 June to 17 July 2027. It will mark the first time three nations have co-hosted the competition, while also bringing the continental finals back to East Africa for the first time in 51 years.   The 48 teams remaining in the qualifiers will be drawn into 12 groups, with the top two in each pool advancing to the continental finals. Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will take part in the qualifiers but have already secured their places as co-hosts, meaning only one additional team from thei...

  US president Donald Trump has issued a new threat that the 'clock is ticking' amid Iran as peace talks stalled.   The President took to Truth Social on Sunday to fire a new warning. 'For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving fast, or there won't be anything left of them,' Trump wrote. 'Time Is Of The Essence! President DJT.' Trump's message came as he was set to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday afternoon to discuss the latest developments in the region.  An Israeli official told Axios the two discussed Iran, and the outlet also reported that Trump's national security team is expected to meet on Tuesday.   Iranian media reported Sunday that the Trump administration had offered no meaningful concessions in response to the Iranian regime's latest proposals, raising fears that negotiations could crumble. The warning came after President Trump said the fragile ceasefire was on 'massive life support...