Jordan Ayew scored three goals and Asamoah Gyan netted another on Monday in his return to the starting line-up as Ghana blanked South Korea 4-0 in a FIFA World Cup™ warm-up match. Ayew opened the scoring in the 11th minute, followed with another goal in the 53rd minute and completed the hat-trick in the 89th minute.Gyan, the former Sunderland striker, scored in the 44th minute. He had been among reserves earlier in Ghana’s World Cup tune-ups but was among 10 players moved into the starting line-up for the Black Stars.Ghana will open World Cup Group G play on 16 June…
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The Confederation of African Football is holding its 36th General Assembly in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 9 June 2014. CAF President Issa Hayatou opened the Assembly in the presence of FIFA President, Sepp Blatter and the CAF Executive Committee. Confederation of African Football (CAF) News
Zambia was the surprise inclusion as the roll call for the TN Mobile 9th African Women’s Championship Namibia 2014 was completed after the weekend’s second leg matches of the final round.The She-Polopolo beat their Zimbabwean counterparts 1-0 courtesy Hellen Mubanga’s 37th minute strike in Lusaka, advancing on a 2-0 aggregate, and qualify for the first time for the biennial tournament. The Zambians were the surprise packets to emerge from the qualifiers joining the likes of Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa to team up with hosts Namibia for the final tournament in October.The biggest casualty was holders,…
Esperance returned to winning ways after coming from behind to beat rivals CS Sfaxien 2-1 in their Group B clash on Sunday in Rades.Oussama Darragi and Driss Mhirsi scored within a spate of a minute after Maher Hannachi had shot the visitors into the lead early in the second half. The result serves a good start for Frenchman Sebastien Desabre, who was elevated to the top spot after Dutchman Ruud Krol was relieved of his post after losses in the opening two games of the group stage.The ‘Blood and Gold’ had to wait for over 180 minutes to land their…
Ivorian side, Sewe Sport held Egyptian giants, Al Ahly to a 1-1 draw in their Group B Day Three clash on Sunday in Abidjan.The Cairo-based side, depleted by the unavailability of several key players through injury took the lead on the stroke of half time through Moussa Yedan before substitute Edem Akrofi drew the hosts level in the second half.Ahly, record eight-time winners of the premier continental club championship, CAF Champions League, remain unbeaten with five points from three games, same as Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia. Sewe Sport has three points whilst Zambia’s Nkana are perched at the bottom…
TP Mazembe moved top of Group A after beating Egyptian giants, Zamalek 1-0 in their Day Three clash on Sunday in Lubumbashi.Zambia-import Rainford Kalaba scored early in the first half to take the DR Congo champions’ points tally to six, two more than fellows AS Vita and Al Hilal of Sudan, leaving five-time winners Zamalek at the bottom with three points.It was the successive loss by the White Knights on Congolese soil after a 1-0 loss to AS Vita last month in the capital, Kinshasa. Zamalek, thus have to bounce back stronger in the remaining three matches to stand any…
The seven teams to join hosts Namibia for the “TN Mobile African Women’s Championship Namibia 2014” will be revealed this weekend as the curtain on the qualifiers folds up.But before the second leg matches of the second round, South Africa has already booked their place for the final tournament following the withdrawal of Comoros, who suffered a 13-0 loss in the first leg in Mitsamiouli a fortnight ago.The Islanders have thrown-in the towel earlier than expected giving the Banyana Banyana the right of being the first to confirm their participation in the ninth edition of the continent’s showpiece women’s football…
When Stephane Mbia arrives in Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™, it will be the fourth time that he has appeared on a global stage, so the 28-year-old will be one of the veteran players in Volker Finke’s team.He represented his country at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Finland, where he scored the equalising goal four minutes into injury time in arguably the most spectacular game ever played in the competition as the west Africans came from 5-0 down in the 70th minute against Portugal to draw 5-5. Five years later, Mbia travelled to China where he played…
Greece and Nigeria battled to a scoreless draw on Tuesday in an international friendly match that served as a 2014 FIFA World Cup™ warm-up for both teams.Greece had their fair share of chances, but couldn’t get past Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama, who made a superb double save on Georgios Samaras and Dimitris Salpingidis in the 8rd minute.Greece had the majority of the opportunities in the first half as well, with Lazaros Christodoulopoulos firing a 30-yard rocket that just went high in the 21st minute. Ioannis Fetfatzidis was turned away in the 28th minute by Enyeama.Early in the second half, Nigeria…