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Sunshine Stars have promoted seven of their most promising U-19 players to the senior team, DAILY POST reports.

Ondo State Football Agency, ODSFA, Chairman, Divine Ogbonnaya, confirmed the players’ promotion.

The promoted players are Oreyomi Bamigbe, David Joseph, Uche Anaro, Alade Damilola, Yakubu Shuibu, Ugochukwu Lawrence and Khalil Nurudeen.

The players have also signed professional contracts with the Owena Waves.

According to the club, the players earned their promotion following careful monitoring of their performances.

All the players are expected to fight for a place in the squad next season.

Sunshine Stars will aim to secure promotion to the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL.

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Former Arsenal player, Bacary Sagna is confident Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe will win the Ballon d’Or this year.

Sagna hailed the individual performance of his countryman, saying that the only thing that could prevent him from doing well is a bad performance at the FIFA World Cup.

Sagna told Goal that he believes Mbappe will win the Ballon d’Or this year.

He doesn’t think any other player is as good as the Frenchman has been this season, and he believes that the good form will keep going into the World Cup next summer.

He said, “He will win it. I believe this is the right time for him to win it this year. I believe the World Cup will be a great event with the French national team participating.

“I believe he will do well in the Champions League with Real Madrid. On a personal level, he is already in a good position because he is doing well and is in first place.

“Unless he has a really bad World Cup, which I don’t think will happen, I believe he will win the Ballon d’Or this year.”

Mbappe has been playing very well this season, scoring 38 goals for his club and country.

He has scored 11 goals in the UEFA Champions League this season and is just one goal away from surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo’s record for the most goals in the group stage.

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Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has admitted that his team want to “win badly”, as they continue to lead the way in the Premier League title race.

The Gunners were to forced to ground out another narrow victory, as they beat Brighton 2-1 at the Emirates on Saturday.

Captain Martin Odegaard had opened the scoring in the first half with a low drive.

Arteta’s men doubled their lead immediately after the break, thanks to an own goal from Georginio Rutter.

But Brigton pulled one back through Diego Gomez and also most got an equalizer, but were denied by an excellent David Raya save.

When asked about the nervy atmosphere inside the stadium after Brighton’s goal back, Arteta said: “That’s a willingness to win! We all want to win so badly.

“Now I don’t want to lose what I have and we have to play to continue to score and show that composure and that ability and we should have scored the third one.

“We have two massive chances to put it to 3-1 and then it would have been different. We haven’t, so we have to suffer a little bit more.”

The result means Arsenal continue to maintain a two-point lead at the top over Manchester City.

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