Cup winner Mannetti quits as Namibia coach The mail has been sent successfully 19 June 2015 08:37 Ricardo Mannetti quit as Namibia coach on Thursday just 19 days after guiding the country to their greatest football achievement. Pre-tournament outsiders Namibia defeated Mozambique 2-0 to win the Cosafa Cup southern Africa championship in South Africa under the former national team midfielder. Mannetti will be replaced by former ‘Brave Warriors’ goalkeeper Ronnie Kanalelo, who has been assistant coach for two years. He offered no explanation for his shock decision at a media conference in Windhoek. “It is based on personal reasons and…
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Gambia has pitched camp in Casablanca, Morocco ahead of this weekend’s African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier against Senegal on Saturday, 20 June 2015 at the Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium, Dakar. The Scorpions guided by ex-national defender and coach, Peter Bonu Johnson left Banjul last Friday evening for Casablanca, where they are expected to hold a week’s training camp. Bonu travelled with a provisional squad of 35 players, and will trim the squad before emplaning for Dakar on the eve of the match. Whilst in Casablanca, the Scorpions played a friendly with the Moroccan Olympic team last Monday (15 June 2015),…
17 June 2015 02:05 Cameroon has long been renowned for the achievements at the FIFA World Cup™, most famously their iconic win over Argentina at Italy 1990. But now the Indomitable Lionesses have created similar breakthough success with a dynamic 2-1 win over Switzerland catapulting them into historic qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ knockout stage. Cameroon are now just the second African team after Nigeria in 1999 to progress beyond the group stage, and their win over Switzerland is only the second by an African nation over a European opponent at the tournament. Cameroon’s nine goals at Canada…
17 June 2015 11:23 Ivan Saponjic scored a dramatic extra-time winner as Serbia beat Mali 2-1 at Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium to set up a FIFA U-20 World Cup final with Brazil. Not for the first time at New Zealand 2015, the substitute was the Europeans’ hero, with his goal settling an enthralling and evenly contested match that had earlier been punctuated by strikes from Andrija Zivkovic and Youssouf Kone. Serbia were returning to the scene of their quarter-final win over USA and, having ended that game on a high, they begun this one the same way. It took just…
16 June 2015 09:30 Standing 6’6 tall, his strapping 90kg frame almost all muscle, Hamidou Maïga’s presence rarely goes unnoticed on the pitch. The No6 is the defensive pillar of a Mali team who have reached the FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015 semi-finals thanks in no small part to their impregnability. Les Aiglonshave only conceded four times in their run through the rounds, two of which came in their second group-stage outing against Serbia, whom they face again in the last four. It just so happens that Maïga sat out the first meeting between the countries through suspension. The defender is…
15 June 2015 08:59 Mauritius captain, Jonathan Bru is calling for a quick fix to their problems if they are to whip back on track their campaign to the Gabon 2017 African Cup of Nations following a heavy defeat to Ghana on the opening day of the qualifiers. ‘Les Dodos’, chasing a second ever qualification to Africa’s plum competition were beaten 7-1 by Ghana’s Black Stars in Accra on Sunday and Bru admits the defeat was heavy. He told Cafonline.com that “we knew this game was going to be difficult for us because we played against one of…
14 June 2015 08:16 Ghana’s Black Stars mauled Mauritius 7-1 in their opening day of the Africa Cup of Nations Gabon 2017 qualifiers when both clashed at the Accra Sports Stadium on Sunday. Ghana overwhelmed the visitors with an avalanche of goals scored by five different players. Christian Atsu sent Ghana ahead after 10 minutes after positioning well to tower over his markers and nod home from a close range to send the supporters who braved an early downpour to attend the match chanting. The Black Stars took absolute charge of the match thereafter following earlier threats…
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