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A top Namibia Premier League official says they have not yet received reports from the referee and the match commissioner after a match between Eleven Arrows and United Stars was abandoned in Walvis Bay on Sunday.
THE curtain finally came down on the 2009 CBZ Premiership season on Sunday amid violent winds of change shaking the top-flight league, with members of the Big Three Dynamos, CAPS United and Highlanders completing the marathon empty-handed for the first time since Independence.
RWANDA will host next year's Cecafa/Kagame Club Championship, Times Sport can reveal.
RWANDA'S football body, Ferwafa has set December 27 as the election date for the new executive.
TOO good to be true! That is how Rayon Sport fans feel about the proposed sponsorship deal with new telecommunications company tigo.
AMAVUBI'S stand in coach Eric Nshimiyimana has challenged his youthful side to step up their game ahead of Thursday's clash with Eritrea.
The South African coastal city of Cape Town becomes the centre of the footballing world this week as preparations for 2010 FIFA World Cup draw hit overdrive.
"The Africa Cup for soccer is an opportunity to strengthen dialogue between people of different cultures, to increase esteem and respect for each other and build a friendship that goes beyond all barriers of race, culture or politics." The Bishops of Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa (IMBISA) have said in a pastoral statement as reported by Agenzia Fides.
It was not just condemnations after all very many good things came out of the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009 that was hosted in eight Nigerian cities from October 17 to November 15.
The City of Cape Town is hard at work preparing for the eagerly-anticipated 2010 Final Draw on Friday.
As FIFA holds an extraordinary general meeting next Thursday in Cape Town, South Africa with the introduction of technology to assist referees in decision-making likely to be high on the agenda, two Botswana soccer figures have warned that the matter must be approached with caution. Staff Writer, FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE reports
HUMAN rights groups in Zimbabwe have condemned world football's governing body Fifa for allowing Robert Mugabe to hold the World Cup trophy as it passed through Zimbabwe. The trophy is on a tour of all 53 African countries ahead of next year's football showpiece in neighbouring South Africa. But activists in Zimbabwe criticised Fifa for handing a propaganda coup to a leader blamed for atrocities ...
While governments in the Southern African Community (SADC) region and elsewhere are mobilising resources in order to reap maximum benefits from both the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa, and African Cup of Nations in Angola, drug-pushers have already stepped up their activities to cash in on the two soccer tournaments.
Former Super Eagles defender Benedict Iroha has added his voice to the growing list of commentators who have called for the sack or retention of Super Eagles chief coach Shaibu Amodu.
The glare of the global football world will be on the Cape Town International Convention Centre at 7 pm on Friday 4 December 2009, when the 32 teams who made it through to Africa's first FIFA World Cup and their legions of fans find out exactly where they will be playing - and who they will be playing against.
A solid security plan is in place for Friday's Fifa draw as hordes of police and army officers, private security personnel and intelligence agents descend on Cape Town, determined to stage a seamless event after the fiasco of the Confederations Cup.
Human rights groups in Zimbabwe have lashed out at football's world governing body, FIFA, for allowing Robert Mugabe to hold the FIFA World Cup trophy as it passed through Zimbabwe on Thursday.
Kenya's Harambee Stars today face off Zambia in the opening match of the Orange Cecafa senior Challenge Cup at Moi Kasarani Stadium.
Mozambique Air Lines (LAM) and its Angolan counterpart, TAAG, signed an agreement in Maputo on Thursday, under which the Maputo-Luanda air fare will be reduced for supporters of the Mozambican national foot ball team, the Mambas, as a result of their qualification for the African Cup of Nations, to be held in Angola in January.
THE 33rd Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup Kicks off in Kenya's capital Nairobi today with the host nation taking on Zambia in the opening Group 'A' fixture at Nyayo National Stadium.
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Aturu has called on the federal government to probe the alleged use of over-aged players in the just concluded FIFA Under-17 football tournament which the country hosted.
RAYON Sport's gifted striker Joseph Kaniki has joined Swedish premier division league club Gefle IF on a two-year contract deal.
Kenya renew their rivalry with Zambia Saturday in the opening match of the 33rd Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup at the Nyayo National Stadium in what could very well be the Group "A" leader decider match.
Kenya started their Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup on a horrendous note losing 2-0 to a clinical Zambia team at Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday. Two goals inside four minutes late in the match from James Chamanga and Felix Sunzu settled the affair which had looked evenly-balanced until then. The fair crowd of Kenyan supporters started walking out of the stadium in a huff after the first goal, a ...
SOME people came on buses, others on cars, a few in lorries but the majority used public transport into the city centre, and then completed the journey on foot to the Harare International Conference Centre, for a date with the iconic Fifa World Cup trophy.
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