WOMEN FOOTBALL

Pernille Harder has won the 2019/20 UEFA Women's Player of the Year award, becoming the first player to receive the prize for the second time.

Harder, who transfered from Wolfsburg to Chelsea last month, finished ahead of Wendie Renard and last year's winner Lucy Bronze in the voting conducted by a panel of leading coaches and journalists, having previously topped the poll in 2017/18. The result was announced during the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League draw ceremony in Geneva which made it the second time she wins the award.

The 27-year-old Denmark attacker was also named UEFA Women's Champions League Forward of the Season in the competition's inaugural positional awards.

Reason for winning  the award

Just as when she topped the poll in 2017/18, Harder's Wolfsburg lost to Lyon in the UEFA Women's Champions League final but the Danish forward only augmented her reputation as probably the most accomplished all-around attacker in Europe. In a season where Wolfsburg completed another German double, she scored 38 goals in 33 games, as well as another five for Denmark.

Harder’s haul included 27 in the Frauen-Bundesliga – the highest tally since Inka Grings in 2009/10 – and, aided by four quarter-final strikes against Glasgow City, nine in the UEFA Women's Champions League, one more than when Harder was top scorer in 2018/19. Not long after the finals, Harder left Wolfsburg in a high-profile transfer to Chelsea.

How her performance make her win the award

The UEFA Women's Player of the Year prize recognises the best players, irrespective of nationality, who played for a club within the territory of a UEFA member association during the past season. Players are judged on performances in all club and national-team competitions.

The jury comprised the coaches of the eight clubs that participated in the final tournament of the 2019/20 UEFA Women's Champions League and 20 journalists specialising in women's football and selected by the ESM group. Jury members chose their top three players, with the first receiving five points, the second three and the third one point

SPORTS

Mourinho oversaw a goal-fest in his first game as Roma boss, with his new side hitting 10 goals past a lower-league Italian team in a friendly on Thursday.  

The former FC Porto, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham head coach was appointed by Roma back in May, and was officially unveiled last week.

The Portuguese defended his recent track record during his first press conference, and on the pitch his reign got off to an ideal start.

Goals: C. Perez (9'), Mancini (19'), B. Mayoral (34', 54', 88'), Calafiori (35'), Santi own goal (40'), Zaniolo (61', p.), Zalewski (80'), Diawara (86')

Playing in Trigoria, Roma recorded a 10-0 victory in their first friendly of the season against Montecatini, who play in Serie D, which is split into nine regional divisions.

Borja Mayoral scored a hat-trick, with Carles Perez, Gianluca Mancini (not related to Italy's Euro 2020-winning coach), Riccardo Calafiori, Nicolo Zaniolo, Nicola Zalewski and Amadou Diawara also on target in addition to a Santi own goal.

Sports news

United States international midfielder Tanner Tessmann has joined Serie A side Venezia FC from Major League Soccer's FC Dallas, the clubs announced on Thursday. According to reliable source the transfer is close to $4.1 million and includes add-ons. The fee was first reported by MLSsoccer.com.

Tessmann who is currently 19 years old, was just in his second season with FCD's first team, after having come up through Dallas' academy since 2016. He's made a total of 28 league and playoff appearances, 16 of them starts, spending the bulk of his time in the center of the midfield.

"He said: Ever since he came to the academy at 14 years old, FC Dallas was developing him, honing my skills and making me a better young man. I knew an opportunity like this would be possible and it was always in the back of my mind, only because FC Dallas was there," Tessmann said in a club statement. "I'm excited for this new experience. It's going to be a good journey. Tessmann won the Golden Ball after leading FC Dallas to the U18/U19 Academy Championship in 2019.

The international level, Tessmann made his only USMNT appearance at senior level back on Jan. 31, coming on as a 78th minute substitute in a 7-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago. He also made three appearances for the U.S. U-23 team during the Olympic qualifying tournament last March. He joins a Venezia side that was just promoted to Serie A, making the upcoming 2021-22 campaign its first in the Italian top flight since the 2001-02 season. The club is owned by American Duncan Niederauer, who also serves as Venezia's president and CEO.

Tessmann is the latest FCD alum to a European club, a group that includes Bryan Reynolds at AS Roma, Chris Richards at Bayern Munich, Reggie Cannon at Portuguese side Boavista, and Weston McKennie, now at Juventus.

The Birmingham, Alabama, native was a two-sport star growing up and had originally signed a letter of intent to play college football at Clemson under head coach Dabo Sweeney, who is also Tessmann's godfather

One covid-19 patient has been discharged

One Covid-19 patient of Sokoto state has been discharged from the isolation centre, according the information on Twitter handle of Sokoto ministry of health, the patient has been recovered from the disease.

Breaking News

Gun men abduct Ekiti state commissioner of Agriculture, according to reliable sources, the commissioner in person of  Folorunsho Olabode was kidnapped while he was on his way to his home town

BUK TO ESTABLISH COVID-19 TEST CENTRE

The VC who spoke on Saturday at a press briefing in the Kano state government house said

the test centre which had gotten the approval of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) would become operational in the next ten days. He said the NCDC officials had inspected the laboratories and equipment at the University’s Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Control and had given approval for the centre to run tests for coronavirus. He said over N50million has been expended for the establishment of the facility. “In Bayero university we have been making arrangements to see if will be able to address this particular problem. Even if we cannot do all the testing we are working on establishing a testing centre. “We hope that in the next one week maximum of ten days we are going to open a testing centre that will run the capacity of testing at least an average of 180 persons per day as against the 40 that the current centre does. “To do that we had moved some equipment others that are in other centres of the university, the PRC machines that we have in other places have been moved over to centre. “The bio-safety cabinets from other places have been moved in. “We are spending over N50m to put the centre up to date and also to purchase testing equipment” he explained. “For the beginning, the order that we had now placed is at least 1500 testing kits that will last for at least ten days when we start, but after that we are to purchase more testing kits because the testing is most important. He appealed to Kano state government to provide Personal Protective Equipment for health workers at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, saying “there are a lot of suspicion that people with ailment, a number of them could be COVID-19 and the main concern there for the medical professionals some of them are threatening to down their tools that they don’t have adequate protection. “The PPE are not adequate. Even though Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital is a federal institution, considering the situation that we are in, I want to appeal to the state government to assist more because if the health personnel at Aminu Kano down tools the situation of Kano will become worse” he concluded. As at 11:55 pm of 25th April, Kano state has 77 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with Lagos and Abuja having 689 and 138 respectively. The total confirmed cases in the country is 1182, while 222 have been discharged and 35 deaths recorded. Related COVID-19: One week after, no testing centres yet in Kano, Maiduguri, Abakaliki COVID-19: BUK commissions engineers to fabricate ventilators, produces hand sanitisers Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Maiduguri testing centres ready this week – NCDC Download Daily Trust News App Share this article TwitterFacebookWhatsAppTelegram Join us on Join our whatsapp group here for Breaking News, Exclusives , others Complain about a story or Report an error and/or correction: +2348189301900 (Whatsapp and SMS only) Email: dtonline@dailytrust.com DISCLAIMER: Comments on this thread are that of the maker and they do not necessarily reflect the organizations stand or views on issues. Top Posts Governors agree on 14 days national COVID-19 lockdown 150 people die in Kano in 3 days 12 countries currently operating 5G network COVID-19 lockdown: Governors want free movement, compulsory face masks Dole-Kaina: The border town where three countries meet Lockdown: Tough decisions coming from Buhari next week – NCDC COVID-19: FG reacts to report of planned national lockdown Funeral prayers for multiples as Kano death toll mounts Governors declare 14-day inter-state lockdown UPDATED: Troops repel Boko Haram attacks in Geidam Just In BUK to establish COVID-19 test centre.

NIGERIA'S CYBER SECURITY PROBLEM

Users at an internet cafe.

The average Nigerian is used to the tedious task of registering for digital services. The amount of information and data that is first collected is rich - our banks and cell phone service providers know our names, date of birth, address, how much we earn and even what we spend our money on. We routinely save our bank card details on company websites, and a lot of people reuse the same password across multiple sites. For most, giving up this information is just a necessary hurdle to overcome before they get the utility of a service. 

Few people question what happens to the data and the chances of it being stolen. Consumers are interested in getting service and see giving out data as a hurdle to overcome - that's fair enough. However, the data collectors don't always treat this data with the right amount of care. The conversation around data protection is yet to be fully discussed.  

Sport News

Jose Morinho to be sacked this weekend. It was reported that Manchester United Boss is set to be sacked over the weekend even if he win his match against Newcastle United.