The Torch for The Special Olympics World Winter Games being held in Boise, Idaho in February 2009, will be arriving in South Africa on Sunday, 7 December 2008, and making its way around Johannesburg as part of its world-wide journey sponsored by DHL.
Flying Eagles Coach, Ladan Bosso, has said that no team can be underrated in Nigeria’s group for next year’s African Youth Championship (AYC), expected to hold in Rwanda. The competition runs from January 18 to February 1.
Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State has said that the immediate past Niger Tornadoes Management Board has a case to answer over mismanagement of funds and other irregularities in the team especially at the tail end of last years Premier League.
Kojo Williams long started the campaign to sanitise the Nigerian league. He decried the poor standards and set about to change things when he became the Nigeria Football Association Chairman.
ThE maiden edition of the Inspector General of Police Cup, a soccer tournament featuring serving members of the Nigeria Police Force, has reached the semifinal stage, with four teams, set to battle for the two remaining slots available in the final, holding in Kano.
RWANDA’S U-20 team head coach Obradovic Tomislav is positive about the junior wasps’ chances of winning the 16th edition title of the African Youth Championship due in Kigali from January 28-February 1, 2009.
Rich Mkhondo has been appointed as chief communications officer, replacing Tim Modise, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) announced on Friday, 28 November 2008. Mkhondo joins the OC from Ogilvy Public Relations (OPR) Worldwide/South Africa, where he was MD.
The Angolan juveniles male roller-skate hockey team of Juventude de Viana are the national champions of this competition, after beating Núcleo do Namibe last Sunday, by 8-0, for the last round of the tournament.
Angola’s national team of football lost to Zambia 0-1, Sunday evening in Luanda, in a first leg match of the qualifiers for the African Championship for locally-based players scheduled for February 29- March 7, in Côte d’Ivoire.
A marathon ‘Marathon de la paix’ (Peace marathon) is set for December 6, 2008. The purpose of the Marathon is to raise awareness and advocate for peace in Burundi.
Nigeria’s U-20 female national team, the Falconets tackle France today in the quarter final of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup with their coach, Daniel Evumena looking beyond the French side and sounding tough.
For those who cover the game of golf in Nigeria, it is no longer news each time, Abuja based female golfer Uloma Mbuko wins at any golf tournament. She is so good she can play the rest of the pack with one hand tied behind her back. Whenever she makes an appearance at any event, the female golfers usually concede the first position to her before hitting a ball. She is that good. She was so good, some ladies plotted against her on several occasions. These days, the trend is to declear any tournament a net event, in a way ruling her out. But that has not stopped the Nigerian Lorena Ochoa from doing what she knows how to do best-winning.
James Peters, an assistant general secretary (Technical) of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF fresh from FUTURO 111 Refresher Coaching Instructors’ Course programme in Mauritius might be on the bench this afternoon to impact what he learnt from the one-week programme on the players of the home-based Super Eagles as they file out against their Ghanaian counterpart in African Nations Championship qualifier.Peters, who declined to tell the direction the victory pendulum would swing, said he could only tell what could happen if he is on the bench studying the pattern of play by both teams at the Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra; the same venue the Super Eagles were taught bitter soccer lesson by the Black Stars early this year that saw the team out of the African Cup of Nations in the quarter finals stage.
WITH some quiet efficiency, Cesc Fabregas, deep in Arsenal’s half, sent a long one to sub Nicklas Bendtner and his finish was clinical. The goal sent Arsenal to the knock-out stage of the Champions League. But in Dynamo Kiev, Arsenal met some hard nuts Tuesday. The visitors must have watched
Bafana Bafana utility man Lance Davids has impressed at right-back while on trial with FC Twente in Holland, but has also attracted interest from Spain.
Ajax Cape Town’s Telkom Knockout semifinal hat-trick hero, Sifiso Vilakazi says his team is ready to beat Orlando Pirates and keep the trophy in Cape Town this season.
Mystery surrounds the composition of the South African Defence Forces team that has arrived in Uganda to contest the Africa Military Camfoot Cup being staged there.
The Cosafa Organising Committee has to disqualify the Comoros squad from the 2008 Metropolitan Youth Championship in Kimberley after it was discovered that five of their players are over age and therefore ineligible to compete.
An Ajax Cape Town supporter and three other people died last night when a stolen bakkie ploughed into a bus brings fans back from the Telkom Knockout Cup semifinal against Free State Starts in East London yesterday.
Maritzburg United have ditched trying to play appealing football, and has put Plan B in action for their match against beaten Telkom Knockout semifinalists Free State Stars this weekend.
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