Pedri’s Sunday ended in defeat and some unusually frank words. Real Madrid won El Clásico 2-1 at the Camp Nou, and the Barcelona midfielder, who was searched more than 100 times a day in Ghana this week, spoke afterwards in blunt terms about how his side had played. This profile follows Pedro González López from…
Eddie Howe is out of work, and for the first time in his career that is the reason his name is everywhere. The former Newcastle United head coach was searched more than 1,000 times a day in Kenya this week after British outlets reported that Manchester United see him as their leading candidate to replace…
Unai Emery spent most of his playing years in Spain’s second tier, a left-sided midfielder few people outside the Basque Country would remember. Today he holds the record for most UEFA Europa League titles with five, and this week his name has been searched more than 200 times a day in Nigeria and more than…
Pitso Mosimane is back at a job where, News24 reported, he feels he has unfinished business. The 62-year-old is head coach of South Africa’s national team for the second time, and this week his name was searched more than 200 times a day in South Africa after he named a 38-man preliminary squad for two…
One catch can make a cricketer famous for a week. On 23 October 2026, “matthew breetzke catch steve smith” was one of the biggest searches in South Africa, with more than 10,000 searches logged by Google Trends. The catch came during the second Test against Australia, which the Proteas went on to win by an…
Wilfred Ndidi has spent most of his career doing the unglamorous work in midfield: winning the ball back, covering space and passing it on simply. In 2026 that work carries more weight than ever. He captains Nigeria, he is vice-captain at Turkish giants Beşiktaş, and this week his name drew more than 500 Google searches…
Robert Lewandowski is 38 now, plays his club football in Chicago and still captains Poland. This week his name climbed the Google Trends list in Nigeria, where more than 100 searches were logged in a day, after Polish outlets including Przegląd Sportowy, Transfery.info and PiłkaNożna.pl ran interviews in which he named his favourite for the…
For close to thirty years, Jay-Z has been both one of the most successful rappers in the world and one of the music industry’s most influential businessmen. This week his name was trending across Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, with more than 1,000 searches a day in Nigeria alone, after the media newsletter Puck reported…
Marc Guéhi has packed a lot into a short time. In little more than a year and a half he captained Crystal Palace to the first major trophy in the club’s history, moved to Manchester City, won the FA Cup again and started for England at a World Cup that ended with a bronze medal….
Few players of his generation reached the top of men’s tennis as quickly as Stefanos Tsitsipas, and few have had to work as hard to climb back. The Greek player was world No. 3 at 23, won the ATP Finals at 21 and played in two Grand Slam finals. Then injuries and a run of…
Kwagga Smith has never been the biggest man in a Springbok pack, and he has never needed to be. The loose forward, a former sevens player, has built a career on speed, work at the breakdown and an ability to fit into whatever role the team needs on the day. This week he was back…
For more than four decades, Christiane Amanpour has been one of the most recognisable faces in international television news. On Monday, 19 October 2026, she announced that she will leave CNN, the network she joined as a junior assistant in 1983. The news pushed her name into Google’s trending searches in Ghana and well beyond,…
Marco Jansen is one of those cricketers who changes the shape of a team just by being picked. He is a left-arm fast bowler who stands a long way above most batters, he bats well enough to count as a genuine all-rounder, and in his short Test career he has already produced a handful of…
South African football does not often produce a centre-back who is captaining a big club at 19 and starting every game at a World Cup at 20, but Mbekezeli Mbokazi has done both. Born in September 2005, he is now playing his football in Major League Soccer with the Chicago Fire, and this week his…
Kalonzo Musyoka has been in Kenyan politics since the one-party era, and he is still trying for the job he has chased for nearly two decades. This week he was back in the headlines after a Saturday press conference in which he condemned reported threats to arrest Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya, and demanded that…