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WITH three days before the start of the Orange Senior Challenge Cup, regional soccer body CECAFA came under attack from Kenya Football Federation over involving rival Football Kenya Limited in the organisation of the event.
JUSTICE Vincent Zehukirize yesterday overruled a preliminary objection by soccer governing body FUFA about city lawyer Fred Muwema representing Express F.C in a case against them.
KYAMBOGO Warriors coach Gad Eteu will demand more passion from his team when they take on D'Mark Power in Game 2 of the MTN-FUBA men's division 1 playoff finals tonight.
Sports Minister/Chairman National Sports Commission, Sani Ndanusa, said yesterday that he was ready to offer himself for probe for his activities during the just ended FIFA Under-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009.
Nwabufo Obienu doubled as vice chairman of then Nigeria Football Association and coordinator of the Eagles during the qualification for 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.
IN a dire need to revamp the grooming ground for the country's football talents which generated so much passion in the past, the Lagos State Government has partnered the Guaranty Trust (GT) Bank to bring back the glory days of the Lagos Principals Cup soccer championship.
The FIFA World Cup Trophy, the most coveted prize in sport, will arrive in South Africa on 1 December, at the end of the African leg of its global tour.
ZIMBABWE international goalkeeper Energy Murambadoro is on the move again, with the former CAPS United goalminder switching clubs in the South African Premiership.
CAPS United shrugged off the absence of their star quartet to pile pressure on old enemy Dynamos, as the two battle for the final Champions League spot, with a hard-fought CBZ Premiership win at Rufaro yesterday that kept alive their dreams of playing against the giants of the continent.
AFTER sacking Branko Tucak, Eric Nshimiyimana has been tasked to manage Rwanda's senior national football team 'Amavubi Stars' at the Orange Cecafa Challenge Cup which kicks off this Sunday in Kenya.
Expectations and a variety of options are some of the things playing on Bobby Williamson's mind as the Uganda Cranes coach seeks to defend the Orange-sponsored Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
At the end of the month-long FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer championship last week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Federal Government was instituting an inquiry into the finances and conduct of officials of the game's Local Organising Committee (LOC).
NIGERIA has played itself to her favourite position in global matters - irrelevance. We used the FIFA U-17 World Cup to display national ethos of playing of skewed standards.
Super Eagles´Head Coach, Shuaibu Amodu, just back from the 2010 African Nations Cup Draw in Angola , will today lead his technical crew to a meeting with the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation at the NFF Secretariat in Abuja .
In a communiqué released on Monday by the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF), it was announced that Mr Faouzi Benzarti has been chosen as the new coach for the Tunisian national football team in replacement of Umberto Coelho.
Contrary to calls from Nigerians for the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and the recruitment of a world class coach to tinker the team to Angola 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and South Africa 2010 World Cup, an appeal has been made to Nigerians to allow the coach continue with his job.
SMALL businesses were given an opportunity to share in the Soccer World Cup pie when Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan announced yesterday that they would be allowed to trade at Fifa's official public viewing events during the global showpiece.
THE inevitable occurred last evening as Branko Tucak was sensationally sacked. The Croat was sacked after Rwanda's disastrous campaign in the 2010 Africa Nations Cup qualifiers.
ZIFA have written to the Confederation of African Football seeking permission to be given the greenlight for a late registration of two other clubs that will represent the country in the Champions League and the Confederation Cup.
THE national soccer team Cranes might be financially handicapped, but could recoup whatever money is invested in them at the CECAFA Orange Senior Challenge Cup.
Aftermath of the draws that have grouped African champions, Egypt alongside Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin Republic in Group C, of the 2010 African Nations Cup to be hosted by Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has began frantic moves to arrange first class friendly matches for the Super Eagles.
THE Brave Warriors continue to slide down the Fifa rankings and are now placed 114th from their previous 101st position in September this year.
AMAVUBI striker Abbas Rassou remains a serious doubt for this year's Orange Challenge Cup.
THE national football league has been temporarily called off as Amavubi intensify their preparations for this year's Orange Challenge Cup in Nairobi.
The U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country's team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.
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