While the mercury on Cape Town's Long Street edged toward 30 degrees Celsius on Friday as thousand of revellers packed the street for the 2010 Fifa Final Draw party, many guys had their shirts off. But none could boast a torso like football fanatic Gary Smith's.
A SCINTILLANTING second half display by the Tanzania Mainland team, Kilimanjaro Stars, saw them tearing apart Eritrea by 4-0 to reach the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup semi-finals.
The Deputy Public Affairs Officer of Gold Fields Ghana, Gerard Hillary Osei Boakye, has told The Chronicle Sports that one of his outfit's priorities is to create an environment that will make Ghanaians happy, hence the broadcast of the FIFA Word Cup draw, live at the Alisa Hotel, last Friday.
BENJANI Mwaruwari says he will put up a "fight" at the talent-laden Manchester City in order to secure his place and will not consider any offer from Bolton Wanderers.
ZIMBABWE booked a berth in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge tournament after a two-all draw against Rwanda at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi Kenya yesterday. Rwanda topped Group B with seven points with Zimbabwe on second spot with five points.
Anthoney Ceesay, Assistant Coach of Brikama zonal team who coached the Brikama side against Banjul on Tuesday has said that they could have made it to the last four of the zonal championship had his boys converted their numerous chances into goals.
Barra Youth Football Academy on Saturday defeated Bolton FC by 2-1 in the on going Lower Niumi U-20 tournament played at Essau Lower Basic School.
Bakau and SK West made it through to the shortlist of the Muhammed Jammeh sponsored super nawettan zonal championship, after grinding out a 1-1 stalemate at the SK East mini-stadium.
Brikama zonal team has cruised out of the 2009 zonal championship after squaring one with Banjul at the Box Bar Mini Stadium on Tuesday.
Following a narrow 1-0 victory over Lamin, Group B leaders SK East are to tussle it out with neighbours SK West in the Zonal championship semi-finals, at home to the Serekunda East on Sunday.
THE Nigerian football team is eyeing Keetmanshoop as a possible base to set up a training camp for the African Nations Cup in Angola in January, as well as the Fifa World Cup next June in South Africa.
THE Namibia Premier League must decide to either spend thousands of dollars on lawyers' consultation and sitting fees or reschedule the abandoned premiership match between Eleven Arrows and United Stars.
Rebels put down their weapons when Didier Drogba says so, and an aspiring president loses the election when Zinedine Zidane speaks out. It is the power of football that Ugandans have chosen to appreciate from afar; the attitude of government, our football administrators and the general public who think they are doing more important things and that football is trivial doesn't help.
Robert Ssentongo came off the bench to send Uganda Cranes to the Orange Cecafa Challenge Cup semi finals as they saw off arch rivals Kenya's Harambee Stars 1-0 in Nairobi yesterday.
FIFA instructors have urged national associations in Africa to support their referees' associations if the standards of officiating on the continent are to constantly improve.
ZIMBABWE'S Under-20 team is set to play Lesotho in their second match of the Metropolitan-Cosafa Under-20 Youth Championship at Dobsonville here tomorrow.
FORMER Dynamos striker Bekhi Mlotshwa has led a deafening call for major reforms - in the ownership structure of the Glamour Boys and the way the team is run - to enable the country's biggest football club to realise its true potential and become a real giant in Africa.
PREMIERSHIP champions Gunners, who are boosting their squad for the African Champions League, have signed Shooting Stars defender Daniel Vheremu after beating Dynamos in the race to secure his signature.
PREMIER Soccer League club bosses have admitted they would need to be more committed and embrace the changes sweeping across the global game to ensure the domestic top-flight becomes a viable and professional entity
Football Gambia, a charity Organisation based in the United Kingdom, recently equipped KGH Sports Academy of Lamin with Sporting Materials.
The zonal defending champions Bakau has exercised supremacy over Banjul after beating them 1-0 in the semi final match played on Saturday at the Serrekunda West football park.
THE Warriors take on Rwanda in Nairobi today hoping for a change of fortunes and a place in the semi-finals of the 2009 Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup.
The teams which qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup seemed to be satisfied with security arrangements for the tournament during a seminar with team representatives last week.
Online applications for accommodation during the 2010 FIFA World Cup are now open to international and local soccer fans on the FIFA.com website.
Atlanta '96 Olympic gold medalist, Kingsley Obiekwu has played down on the chances of the national team at both the African Cup of Nations in Angola and the World Cup in South Africa next year.
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