A taxi stops near a busy square, and the first thing noticed is sound. Drums, horns, street chatter, and vendors calling out snacks. Morocco Prepares for AFCON Festival Beyond Football, and AFCON 2025 in Morocco already looks bigger than match nights. Organisers keep talking about culture, travel, city life, and crowds that want plans even […]
Explore how Nairobi embraces fitness and wellness: outdoor callisthenics to health-monitoring gadgets and even nutrition that is both mindful and trendy— all these are leading a healthy lifestyle in the city. Fitness and wellness have become an integral part of Nairobi city. The massive Kenyans have been following fitness these days, which they had in […]
Kaizer Chiefs has been praised from one of football’s greatest ever players turned coach, Lothar Matthäus giving his opinion on the club’s Naturena village. Matthäus visited Kaizer Chiefs this week as part of his trip to South Africa with the Bundesliga, with a view to ‘build a working relationship between Chiefs and the Bundesliga’. Speaking […]
Former Nigeria Striker Odion jude Ighalo score twice for Manchester United as his new club silence their Derby County counter part in an exciting match which ended 3-0. Ighalo joined United on loan from Shanghai Greenland Shenhua of the Chinese super league. His tranfer came as a bit of shock for many football lovers who […]
Following their painful loss at the weekend, plans are in progress for relegation-bound AmaZulu to take on Kaizer Chiefs this coming Saturday. Usuthu, who are currently without a head coach after the club decided to put Jozef Vukusic on special leave, have a daunting task of climbing out of the relegation zone with seven matches […]
Ex-Nigeria international Victor Moses faces lenghty spell on the sidelines at Inter Milan after suffering a muscle strain. The injury of the 29-year-old Nigerian was confirmed on Monday at the Humanitas Research Hospital, after he underwent a scan. ‘Victor Moses underwent medical tests at the Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano this morning, with an MRI […]
The quarter finals of the CAF Champions League witnessed some exciting results. Two-time defending champions Esperance of Tunis of this competition are on the brink of elimination from the competition unless they put up an inspired performance in the return leg after losing 3-1 to Zamalek of Cairo in the first leg. CAF descends heavily […]
According to various media reports, Morocco’s Mouad Hajji has resigned from his position as Confederation of African Football (CAF) General Secretary. Hajji took on the role back in April 2019 after replacing the late Amr Fahmy and now according to Moroccan news outlet Le360 is believed to have resigned less than a year later. Hajji […]
A Kaizer Chiefs midfielder has turned down one of the club’s contract offers. According to various sources, George Maluleka and Chiefs are currently still locked in negotiations for a new deal, with the source since revealing that the midfielder turned down one of the club’s latest offers. Maluleka’s current deal with Amakhosi will come to […]
David Ssemuju, Uganda’s top hope in the African Olympic Qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal, has lost the semifinal to Algeria’s Younes Nemouchi 4-1 this evening. Ssemuju, Africa’s top middleweight until yesterday, was aggressive as usual in all rounds, chasing the bigger, and mobile Nemouchi but was trailing 18-20 after 2 rounds. He upped his gear to […]
Relegation-threatened AmaZulu, who will be in action this afternoon with the aim of working towards saving the club’s Absa Premiership campaign, are said to be willing to beef up the squad for the last few matches of the season, should they find a suitable player. AmaZulu will be at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium this […]
King Paul Akpan Udoh, an Italian-Nigerian player, has become the first footballer to be infected with the deadly coronavirus. The Sun had reported that an unnamed 22-year-old player for Serie C Group A side Pianese tested positive on Thursday after feeling unwell at the weekend. However, BBC in a live update identified the player as […]
Mamelodi Sundowns are already underway with day three of preparations in Egypt ahead of Saturdays clash. The Brazilians will lock horns with Al Ahly in the first leg of the CAF Champions League quarter-finals and jetted out to Egypt five days before the clash in order to prepare accordingly. Speaking to the media from Egypt, […]
Former Orlando Pirates defender Rooi Mahamutsa’s return to professional football has been explained by his new club. Having spent some time without a club since parting ways with Free State Stars at the end of the 2018/19 season, and following training stints with different top and lower league teams in recent weeks, Mahamutsa has been […]
Itumeleng Khune has never had a better chance this season to take his place as Kaizer Chiefs’ number one back, but can ‘Spiderkid’ become first choice once again? Khune surprisingly lost his place in the Glamour Boys’ starting XI to Daniel Akpeyi this season, firstly after a long-term injury but then also as Ernst Middendorp […]
South Africa will not send its Olympic football team to Japan to play a friendly in March because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. The two teams were due to play in Sanga on 27 March, four months before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. There have been 85 confirmed cases of coronavirus in […]
The Springbok Women’s Sevens team will revel in the opportunity to take the field again after their historic first appearance at the HSBC Cape Town Sevens in December last year. They travel to the coastal resort of Hermanus for the Hermanus Sevens on Saturday and although it is a far cry from the sell-out event […]
Thirteen national team boxers, nicknamed The Bombers, are in the race to qualify for the Olympic Games due later this year in Tokyo, Japan. The team, comprising eight men and five women, flew out to Dakar, Senegal on Sunday, February 16 ahead of the African Olympic qualifier, which punches off today, February 20. Before departure, […]
Tunisia international full-back Hamdi Nagguez has signed for Lithuanian sideFK Suduva on a free transfer just months after having left Zamalek. Nagguez terminated his contract with Zamalek back in December after the club failed to pay his wages. During his time with the Cairo giants, the 27-year-old helped Zamalek win two Egypt Cups, the 2019 […]
Kampala- Patrick Lihanda, the national boxing coach believes the Bombers are in better shape now than they were three weeks ago when they camped in his Luzira Prison and are ready for the African Olympic Qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal next week. Twenty six boxers [men and women] and eight coaches have resided behind the prison […]