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                                     On first glance it looks like Limerick have pulled off the transfer of the century and signed Barcelona striker Neymar.  But on closer inspection, it turns out the Barcelona striker has not swapped La Liga for the League of Ireland.  It is in fact 16-year-old Barry Cotter, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Brazil World Cup star.  While Neymar will line up in the Champions League, former Avenue United and Ennis Town forward Cotter will play in the under-17 National League after signing for Limerick.     But he shares his doppelganger's confidence telling the club website: "I'm looking to score at least one or two goals in each game for the rest of the season."

                                                                                   Mayweather’s Incredible Fleet  Lauded as one of the greatest pound for pound fighters in the history of the sport, Mayweather Jr has earned well over $400million throughout his career, and is no stranger to showing it off. After beating fierce rival Manny Pacquiao in the match dubbed ‘Fight of the Century’, Mayweather took home an eye-watering sum of £116,554,424 in prize money as he took his undefeated run to a supremely impressive tally of 48. The 38-year arrived the Mayweather Boxing Club to prepare for what could be his final fight against Andre Berto on September 12th, and did so in typical Mayweather style by driving in his brand new £3.1million silver Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita. And he wasn’t about to stop showing off there either. Money Mayweather parked up next to his three Bugatti Veyrons and a white Ferrari before heading inside the gym.           

Bolt claimed his second gold medal of the Beijing World Championships by winning the 200m, with the Jamaican blowing away the competition to win the final with a world leading time of 19.57seconds. He even had time to slow down and celebrate over the last 20 metres, which clearly left one cameraman so perturbed that he felt he had to do something to stop him.                       But he was back up and celebrating in no time

Arsenal are probably the biggest losers following the Champions League group stage draw – after landing Bayern Munich. Manchester City also face a tough task to qualify but Manchester United and Chelsea will be delighted with how the balls were pulled out. Overall, it must be said that all the English clubs will expect to qualify for the next round. The Gunners were handed a tricky draw in group F against European giants Bayern Munich as well as Greece’s Olympiacos and Dinamo Zagreb. Man United drew arguably the best top seed in PSV Eindhoven in a fixture that will see Memphis Depay return against his former club in group B. They also face an awkward trip to Russia to face CSKA Moscow and a trick tie against Wolfsburg. Chelsea will be satisfied with their opponents in group G as they landed Porto, Dynamo Kyiv and Maccabi Tel-aviv. City will face last season’s finalists Juventus in group D along with Europa League winners Sevilla. The new draw system saw the

Nigerian Striker Taiwo Awoniyi Leaves For England To Under Go Medical Before Signing For Liverpool This Weekend                               The forward, 17, a product of Imperial Soccer Academy has been strongly linked with a switch to the Reds in recent weeks. And now the deal has been confirmed by a spokesman for the Nigeria FA, who says Awoniyi will miss next month’s All African Games, where he was set to star for the Under-23 team. Awoniyi will leave this week for England to sign his contract with Liverpool,’ Timi Ebikagboro said. That is why he is not here training with us for the All Africa Games. Awoniyi is the most promising striker who chas been watched by Monaco and Porto in th e past.

               The Olumide Oyedeji led National Basketball Team of Nigeria D'tigers has been in blistering form at the on-going Africa Basketball Championship in Tunisia. After recording great feats over Central Africa Republic and Uganda respectively, D'Tigers unbeating runs came to an end by the Tunisian National Team in the group stage. The Nigerian team found them selves under intense pressure while playing against the host team who enjoyed maximum home support. The defense of D'Tiger was suspect as Sala Mejri star player of the Tunisian side took advantage of the lapses created to score 22 points and 7 rebounds. D'Tiger in group A came out second place behind Tunisia rebouncing on Mozambique whom they defeated with a wooping 83-47 points to advance to the quater final stage. However, Nigeria has been ceded against Gabon in the quater final stage of the tournament.   D’Tigers’ unbeaten run in Group A of the ongoing 2015 Afro

                       Reports reaching us from the camp of the National Athletics Team recently competing for honours at the World Championship events in Beijin confirms that the Nigerian Team is ill equipped hence, they are sparingly dressed in what ever they can lay their hands on unlike other teams who are seen in uniformity. A statement picked from Okagbare's Blog states: None of the team member competing here wears any semblance of Nigeria's Green and White while the foreign based athletes also wears variouse colours. We are so disorganised here that one would think we are in a local Competition. This has not really motivated us said one of the athletes who begged not to be mentioned. Team Nigeria athletes competing at the 15th IAAF World Championships in Athletics are the worst dressed athletes here in Beijing. When Complete Sports visited the athletes’ Conference Hotel abode Tuesday afternoon, the athletes were seen dressed in vario

                                     A hamstring injury prevented Nigerian sprint queen, Blessing Okagbare from competing at the women’s 200m race at the World Athletics Championship in Beijing. After a disappointing last finish at the finals of the women’s 100m, all hopes of a medal for Blessing in Beijing were hinged on the 200m. Okagbare, who was listed in the startlist of Heat 3, was however missing for the race. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria ( AFN ) has released a statement revealing that she was injured during the pre-race warm-up. “ A hamstring injury during warm up on Wednesday prevented Blessing Okagbare from participating in the heats of the 200m ,” the statement read. “ Okagbare, who went for surgery shortly before the All Nigeria Athletics Championships held in Warri, Delta State, was certified fit for the World Championships. The injury probably re-occurred because of rounds she did in the 100m. ” A report forwarded by the med