The national Under-20 women football team will meet their Zimbabwe counterparts in an international friendly at the UB Stadium tomorrow to prepare for the return leg of the World Cup qualifier against Namibia.
Will Gaborone United (GU) and Uniao Flamengo Santos change the fortunes of Botswana football in African club competitions?
It is a case of David versus Goliath when Rwanda's Amavubi Stars take on their archrivals Uganda in the final of the 2009 Orange Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup this afternoon at Nyayo national stadium.
THE World Cup is a hugely lucrative event, which will attract business people from across the spectrum. These include people who make profits from the illicit drug industry.
The African club continental championship draw has been held, and league winner Armed Forces are to grind it out with JSK Kabylie of Algeria in the preliminary rounds of the 2010 Orange championship.
Ports could have held their spirits high against defending champions Armed Forces in a nil-nil stalemate tie at the Father Gough, but ex-U-20 boss Peter Bonu Johnson thinks that it was not a bad test.
Mainland league champions, Young Africans today play Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in the international friendly match at the Uhuru Stadium.
Kilimanjaro Stars are out of the running for this year's Cecafa Challenge Cup, having lost their crucial the semi-final match 2-1 to Rwanda's Amavubi.
Tanzania Mainland soccer team coach Marcio Maximo, said discipline and fighting spirit as the secret weapons he will use to beat Zanzibar in their Cecafa Challenge Cup playoff match tomorrow.
The CEO of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, Dr Danny Jordaan, said the 2010 Final Draw held in Cape Town on Friday, 4 December 2009, delivered on the promise of a world-class event.
As South Africa steps closer to the first-ever hosting of the FIFA World Cup on African soil, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Local Organising Committee (LOC) CEO Danny Jordaan to contain his smirked expression. And rightly so, since being awarded with the privilege to host the event, the LOC has overcome many a hurdle to convince world perception that South Africa has the capacity to ...
THE sole ownership of football teams in our domestic league can have serious implications for the future sustainability of the clubs' operations, while the financial well-being of the players can be severely compromised.
UGANDA successfully retained the East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup after thrashing Rwanda 2-0 in a mouth-watering final at the Nyayo Stadium, in the match that has just ended.
ZIMBABWE booked a berth in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge tournament despite losing 0-1 to Rwanda at the Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi Kenya Saturday.
Africa's big three -- Ghana, Cameroon and Cote d'Ivoire have announced their training bases for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup giving Zimbabwe a wide berth.
REIGNING South African premiership champions, Supersport will be assessing Caps United midfielder Lionel Mtizwa next week.
Thieves have also targeted Cape Town Stadium. Although the city's 2010 spokesman Pieter Cronje downplayed the situation there, "kilometres of cabling", copper wire and a ton of bolts have disappeared from the site. Most of the thefts are believed to be inside jobs.
Much has been made of the country's image-perception management programme and how it is the panacea to attracting more tourists to Zimbabwe ahead of next year's soccer extravaganza. But the recent announcements by nations coming to the World Cup in South Africa and the Orange Africa Cup of Nations in Angola suggest otherwise.
EVEN after losing to title holders Uganda Cranes in the quarterfinal match of the Orange Senior Challenge Cup, Zanzibar Heroes head coach Hemed Morocco does not harbour any grudge for their painful exit.
URA FC have lost interest in Cranes midfielder Tonny Mawejje and are instead targeting his team-mate in Iceland Augustine Nsumba to strengthen the team.
The fact that Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Stars lost 2-1 to Rwanda in the Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup on Thursday did not down well with some Tanzania journalists covering the event.
CECAFA general secretary Nicholas Musonye said yesterday that Kenya will not host the regional championship again because of the low turn up during matches.
With the Angola 2010 African Nations Cup fast approaching, former U-23 forward, Obiora Anorue has made a claim for a place in Nigeria's squad for the tournament.
SUPER Eagles manager, Shaibu Amodu, is not a happy man at the moment. In any case, his worries has nothing to do with Nigeria being drawn against dreaded Argentina at the South Africa 2010 World Cup.
Tunisia's Carthage Eagles new boss, Faouzi Benzarti has unveiled his plans for the North African nation after his recent appointment
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