For once in this year's MTN-Fuba League play-off series, there was breathing space at YMCA, Wandegeya on Sunday night. The sport's governing body, Fuba, and black market ticket vendors must have banked less than usual, thanks to the English Premiership clash between Arsenal and Chelsea. You've got to feel sorry for DMark Power fans who have a soft spot for Arsenal.
Tanzania hope to have a fully fit squad for their clash with Zanzibar today in the third match of the ongoing Orange Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Mumias.
Ahead of the African Cup of Nations in Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation is considering a friendly with the 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa.
The Senate Committee on Sports has resolved to meet with the National Sports Commission (NSC) to find ways of engaging a foreign coach that would tinker the Super Eagles to the Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama says he would have gladly traded his 9 clean sheets record if it had meant Nigeria grabbing the 2010 World Cup ticket with less heartache.
Actions in the on-going Muhammed Yahya Jammeh Zonal Cup competition will resume today with Group A teams battling for semi-final spots in their third and final group fixtures.
Former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Col Abdulmumuni Aminu (rtd), has said coach Shaibu Amodu must pull out all the stunts in his hat to ensure that Super Eagles reclaim their lost glory by winning next year's African Cup of Nations.
The city of Cape Town is bracing up for this week's Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup to be staged for the first time in the continent of Africa.
Just over two weeks after the conclusion of the 2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup, the Lagos sub-seat has declared its accounts, stating it spent a total sum of N81,064,614.54 to host the competition in the city, even though the document showed a deficit of N15,564,614.54.
A Seven Man Committee has been set up by the Nigeria Premier League board to conduct the election into the NPL board tenure for 2010 - 2014.
Senate Committee on sports and social development has indicated their willingness to go ahead in hiring a technical foreign adviser for the Super Eagles even as the Football Federation has endorsed the coach Amodu led technical crew to lead the Super Eagles to both the Nations and the world cup in Angola and South Africa 2010 respectively.
The Nigeria Football Federation will this week be N126m richer as Guinness is set to pay up N126 million to the NFF as part of their N250 million annual sponsorship money. In the same vein, Coca-Cola is set to renew their partnership with the NFF.
THREE former Monomotapa players Mtulisi Maphosa, Daniel Zokoto and Chris Samakweri are on the verge of making history as the first Zimbabwean players to feature at the Fifa Club World Cup tournament set for Abu Dhabi next week.
JUST five days after Zimbabwe joined the global family in the World Cup Trophy tour frenzy, domestic football was yesterday the focus of the international game with the staging of two high-level Fifa courses for the referees' instructors and the Premier Soccer League clubs' chiefs in Harare.
THE Zimbabwe women's Under-20 national soccer team, which was in camp for the 2010 World Championships in Germany, has progressed to the final qualifying round without kicking a ball.
ZIMBABWE'S chances of hosting Brazil for the 2010 Fifa World Cup finals got a major boost on Sunday when the Brazilian technical team said it had exclusively focused on setting base either here or in South Africa.
The Under-17 World Youth Soccer tournament may have ended, but the ripples generated and the multiplier effects of the tournament keeps reverberating on the air.
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.
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