2018 In Retrospect: Top 8 Sporting Events That Created A Stir On Social Media In 2018

  1. World Cup:

The world cup is the football festival for every football fan, even if your country does not qualify but yeah its always feels better if your country does and gives a good account of themselves. The World cup brings this unprecedented euphoria of passion, patriotism and support to their own country or some times to some fans who adopt another country to follow during the world cup. The best moment of the Russia 2018 World cup for Nigeria was when Ahmed Musa Scored Nigeria’s first goal at the world roofs erupted the very ground shook almost creating an earthquake. The goal, the celebration and Ahmed Musa trended online for days.
2. Jose Mourinho Sack:
The Former Manchester United Manager, lost his job 4 days ago he has being trending since the beginning of the season complaining about the team’s lack of transfer and bad defence, he also had issues with some of his players, the most recorded and of high profile is that of him and Paul Pogba, where camera caught him and Paul Pogba during an intense altercation. Senor Mourinho just knows how to always be in the news and carry the media along, from his 3,3,3 for me, 2 for them, to cupping his hear at the Alllianz stadium Turin, Jose mourinho never stops his the king of the media and publicity.
3. Ronaldo To Juventus:
This was another major sporting event that trended and set the social media space ablaze, Cristiano Ronaldo deciding to move after winning 3 UEFA Champions League title consecutively, ending his 9 year relationship with Real Madrid and his battle for the best between him and Lionel Messi. He has also being in the news, for his alleged Rape case between him and Kathryn Mayorga.
4. Ballon D’or Winner(Luka Modric):
Luka Modric Broke the ten years dominance of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the Ballon D’or and became the first man to actually win the FIFA world best player, The Ballon D’or that wasn’t either Cr7 or the little Argentinian magician.
5. Naomi Osaka Defeat Serena Williams:
Naomi Osaka defeated serena williams at the US Open, the defeat was so frustrating to serena that she got into an altercation with the Umpire; the altercation became an instant hit online and trended for days. After the game serena still continued trending instead of the young lady who defeated her that she even came online to ask people to celebrate Naomi and talkless of her own rant.
6. McGregor Vs Floyd Mayweather:
This was named the fight of the Century, because of its publicity and Mr mayweather is who called Mr. money Man, they both made huge churn of money from the fight, in excess of $80millions for both men this fight shook the internet and sent it into over drive.
7. Lewis Hamilton 5 Grand Prix Title:
Lewis Hamilton made history in F1 and became the first man after Micheal Schumacher to achieve the feat of winning the F1 title 5 times, and he his the first Black man to win the F1 Consecutively. His achievement was heavily celebrated and trended on the social media.
8. Arsene Wenger:
Former Arsenal Boss, resigned from his position as the head coach and manager of Arsenal football club, his resignation trended heavily online within the sport space, as the legendary Arsenal manager said goodbye to his football club which his was associated with for 22years. Photo Credit

 

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