Nigeria has always been blessed with homegrown talents who have gone on to achieve great things in football. In 1985, Nigeria’s Flying Eagles became the first team from Africa to win a medal at a FIFA ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched ... reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

2000 — The New York Yankees become the first team in more than a quarter-century to win three straight World Series ...

TAMPERE, Finland --Jari Kurri walked in carrying the Stanley Cup ... the Soviet Union to give Finland its first gold medal at ...

He represents the first time the franchise's cornerstone player hails from the former Soviet Union. It has been a long road to get there.

1968 — Boxer George Foreman beats Ionas Chepulis of the Soviet Union for the gold medal in ... 2014 — Abby Wambach scores four goals and the World Cup-bound United States beat Costa Rica ...

Alexander Zverev is a German professional tennis player, and widely regarded as among the best tennis players in the world ... for the Soviet Union Team in the 1979 Davis Cup.

In goal, Gianluigi Buffon came second in 2006 after helping Italy win the World Cup, with Oliver Kahn his ... starting in goal with Soviet Union stopper Lev Yashin, whose 1963 triumph remains ...

Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper in history to win the Ballon d'Or, which arguably cements the Soviet as the most outstanding ... The former Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper, who died in March 1990, grew up ...

The world — including Indians — gives great ... was a useful pawn in the West’s campaign against the erstwhile Soviet Union. But later, when he became critical of certain aspects of western ...

Often considered to be one of the ... Soviet goalkeeper, Alexei Khomich, but Yashin also played for the Dynamo Moscow Ice ...

Jeff Daniels shines in this Aaron Sorkin political drama as Will McAvoy, an anchor for a cable news channel whose working world gets thrown ... disaster in the Soviet Union and the subsequent ...