The world governing soccer body FIFA, will from 2-4 April 2014 conduct a football seminar which will provide an update in a number of areas such as technical issues and the general cooperation between CAF and FIFA.The workshop will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa and will be attended by the Presidents, Secretary Generals and Technical Directors of the respective countries.More than 27 Member Association Presidents, General Secretaries and Technical Directors have been invited from mainly from the English speaking countries.Among the areas that will be discussed during the three day seminar are:. FIFA governance reforms. New regulations governing development…
Author: CAF News
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After the Orange CAF Confederation Cup play-offs draw conducted by CAF Secretary General Hicham El Amrani and Mr Hazem El Hawary, member of the CAF interclubs Committee, on Tuesday 1st April, Cafonline.com spoke to some of the attendees for their reaction Moussa Diakite (Mali Ambassador to Egypt) “For sure there will be a Malian team in the group stage of the competition and that is good. In a draw of this kind you can expect any team and l think it is a good draw that has paired Djoliba and AS Real together. The two teams know each other well…
Malian duo, AS Real and Djoliba have been drawn against each other for the 2nd 1/8th round of the 2014 Orange CAF Confederation Cup.The fixture was the headline for the draw conducted on Tuesday, 1 April 2014 at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. CAF General Secretary Hicham El-Amrani conducted the draw assisted by Hazem El-Hawary, a member of the CAF Interclubs Committee.Teams eliminated at the 1/8th round of the Orange CAF Champions League were drawn against the sides progressing from the 1/8th round of the CAF Confederation Cup.The draw witnessed some interesting pairings but the Bamako derby tops the…
Al-Ahly (Egypt) vs Difaa Hassani Jadida (Morocco)AS Real (Mali) vs Djoliba (Mali) AC Leopards (Congo) vs Medeama (Ghana)Kaizer Chiefs (South Africa) vs ASEC Mimosas (Cote d’Ivoire) Coton Sport (Cameroon) vs Petro Atletico (Angola)Horoya (Guinea) vs Etoile du Sahel (Tunisia) Sewe Sport (Cote d’Ivoire) vs Bayelsa (Nigeria)Nkana (Zambia) vs Club Athletique Bizertin (Tunisia)First leg: 18, 19, 20 April 2014Second leg: 25, 26, 27 April 2014 Confederation of African Football (CAF) News
Nigerian Peter Odemwingie scored his third goal in as many matches to give Stoke City a 1-0 English Premier League victory over Hull City at the weekend.Compatriot Chinedu Obasi contributed a goal and an assist as third-place Schalke triumphed 2-0 against Hertha Berlin in the German Bundesliga.There were plenty of African goals in the French Ligue 1, including a stoppage-time winner from Ivorian Salomon Kalou for Lille.ENGLANDPETER ODEMWINGIE (Stoke City)Former West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City forward Odemwingie struck in the 62nd minute, seizing on a loose pass from Hull’s Egyptian wing-back Ahmed Elmohamady and surging to the edge of…
Four pots of four teams in each will be used for the draw of the 2nd 1/8th final of the Orange CAF Confederation Cup 2014 which takes place at CAF headquarters Tuesday 1st April at 11h00 local time.The four pots are established by the ranking of respective sides’ which is determined by the clubs’ performances in continental club championships for the period 2009-2013. A pre-determined co-efficient factor is used to multiply points accrued by each club each year to arrive at the accumulated total and subsequently the ranking.Pot A will have the top 4 ranked sides from the Champions League…
The men have been separated from the boys with the identities of the teams for the group phase of the 2014 Orange CAF Champions League revealed.Whilst holders Al-Ahly of Egypt will have to wait for another time to realize their hat-trick of titles in the premier continental club championship, North Africa remains heavily represented with five of the octet coming from the Maghreb region.The qualified teams are Ahli Benghazi (Libya), CS Sfaxien (Tunisia), Esperance (Tunisia), Entente Setif (Algeria), Hilal (Sudan), AS Vita Club (DR Congo), TP Mazembe (DR Congo) and Zamalek (Egypt).Sudanese giants, Hilal and Congolese duo, Vita Club and…
Tunisian giants, Esperance booked their place at the last eight thanks to a 3-0 thumping of AS Real of mali on Sunday in Rades.Haythem Jouini, Iheb Msakni and Harrison Afful were each on target as the ‘Blood and Gold’ marched on 4-1 on aggregate.The Tunisian’s kept their ambitions of a third title on track by dispatching off the surviving Malian club in the premier continental championship. Esperance, a regular face at the group stage joins rivals CS Sfaxien to complete the Tunisian pair for the lucrative mini-league stage.Esperance broke the deadlock after 33 minutes through Jouini who finished off a…
Zamalek of Egypt reached the group phase of the Orange CAF Champions League after thrashing visiting Nkana FC from Zambia 6-0 at Cairo’s Air Defense stadium. The second leg encounter of the second round was less of a contest than the goalless draw the two sides played last weekend in Kitwe.Ahmed Tawfik opened the scoring after 20 minutes before well taken free kick curled in beautifully by Momen Zakrya ensured the White Knights would go to the break two goal in front. After the break Omar Gaber added a third before Nkana had hardly settled into their stride. The Zambian…