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A contemptible service industry for SA 2010 World Cup
A large neon digital counter in the bustling walkways of Oliver Tambo International Airport at Johannesburg reminds visitors that the FIFA World Cup 2010...
Zimbabwe: Freakish greed deals blow to world cup deal
A high level of greed by Zimbabwe hoteliers has cost the bankrupt country a rare chance of cashing in on the 2010 World...
Frustrated Cameroonian coach Otto Pfister calls it quits
Cameroon national coach, Otto Pfister, Wednesday sent his letter of resignation to the Minister for Sports and Physical Education, Augustin Edjo. The latter had...
World Cup 2010: Zimbabwe woos Nigeiria, England, Brazil
Zimbabwe, which is trying to get a slice of the expected financial windfall in 2010 World cup in South Africa has added England and...
Ticket-addled SA soccer fans force FIFA to modify rules
Football governing body Fifa is reported to have admitted that the slow pace of ticket sales for next month’s Confederations Cup had made it...
Drogba vs Eto’o: Champions league’s clash of the titans
The first semi-final round of the Champions League takes place tonight at Camp Nou in Barcelona. Barça’s Samuel Eto'o, Yaya Toure and Thierry Henry...
Neighbours give South Africa electricity for 2010 WC
Southern African countries have signed a deal to put in place an emergency supply of thousands of megawatts of electricity to South Africa during...
Football: Top 20 earners list released in France
An African International is among the ten best paid players in the French Premier League. The Ivorian Kader Keita, of the Olympic Lyon (OL),...
A new stadium for Portugese speakers at 2010 World Cup
China is set to build a massive $60 million soccer stadium in Mozambique in a bid to tap into the Soccer World Cup in...
Football: Anichebe incident and a police ‘overkill’
With an alarming rate of jewelry robbery in Cheshire in England, two patrol police officers yesterday mistook Nigerian International and Everton striker, Victor Anichebe...
Football: Abedi Pele on Racism and 2010 World Cup
Racist attacks against Black players in European clubs have shot up in the past few years. Abedi Pele, the former Marseilles football star, now...
African Nations Championship: Bad news for Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Warriors’ trip to the inaugural African Nations Championship finals is in doubt as the soccer governing body ZIFA had not secured the...
Football: French Minister supports Mensah’s racist suit
A French football supporter who racially abused John Mensah, Ghanaian international currently playing for Olympique Lyonnais (OL), during a match against Le Havre, was...
Disappointed Essien back in action for Chelsea
Good news emanating from Stamford Bridge claim that Michael Essien is back in training, although he is not expected to return until the end...
Football: Deception, Voodoo, Asphyxia and a fired coach
Doctors have blamed the death of the four people at a football match between Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak in Kumasi, on extreme...
Adebayor wins Africa player of the year, Midas-touch Aboutrika compensated
The daily countdown fever to the 2008 GLO-CAF African Footballer of the Year awards was broken when a Nigerian radio station, Inspiration FM, announced...
GLO CAF Award winners list: Egypt tops the count
The African Footballer of the Year award is the most prestigious of all the categories, which also include the best footballer playing on the...
Drogba needs to prove his worth after Scolari’s sack
Chelsea's Ivorian forward, Didier Drogba has stated that he no longer found football-life bearable at Chelsea but following the axing of Chelsea's Manager, Luiz...
24 professional Nigerian footballers Killed in 2 months
It has been a sad weekend for Nigerian football said the Nigeria Football Federation head, Mohamed Sanusi. The sadness is as a result of...
Adebayor, Essien, Aboutrika (Egypt) eye Glo-CAF award
The nominations for the Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year Award have come down to three names. Togo's Adebayor Emmanuel, Egypt’s Aboutrika Mohammed, and...
Drogba to move out of Chelsea to Milan or Marseille?
Reports emanating from the dressing rooms of Stamford Bridge claim that Didier Drogba may very well be on his way out of Chelsea.
The Ivorian...
Chelsea’s Mikel Obi takes on Jamaica for Super Eagles
Fresh from losing to Columbia, the Nigerian football federation and the head coach of the Nigerian super eagles Shaibu Amodu has decided to recall...
McDonald Mariga to move from FC Parma to AC Milan
AC Milan, top Italian football team, is reported to have shown interest in Kenyan striker McDonald Mariga, although no official announcement has been made...
Two major upsets as 8 football teams move into next CHAN stage
All the eight finalists for the inaugural edition of the African Nations Championship have emerged after the second round, second leg matches played across...
Kenya’s Harambee Stars set for a new coach
Football Kenya Limited (FKL), the body running football in the country, will Wednesday name a new coach to take charge of the national team,...
53 clubs register for CAF and 45 for Confederation Cup
Some 53 clubs will feature in the 2009 edition of the African Champions League while 45 will participate in the Confederation Cup, according to...
BBC African Footballer of the Year
Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o Mohamed Aboutrika, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Amr Zaki are the five candidates nominated for the 2008 BBC African Footballer of the...
African women’s effort to reach World Cup semis brought to naught
With Nigeria's 3-2 loss to France in the quarter-final of the current FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup Chile on Sunday, Africa's two representatives in...
S. Africa and E. Guinea fight for Nigeria Falcons’ lost title
The Super Falcons of Nigerian who until now were known as the African football queens for winning every continental female football tournament have been...
FIFA and Miss World group to stage Confederations Cup draw
The eight Miss World candidates from the respective participating countries and continents will lend a helping hand during the draw in South Africa Saturday...