Malabo - Guinea described their progress, by the drawing of lots, to Sunday's African Nations Cup quarter-final against Ghana in Malabo as the "gods of football fortune" smiling down on them. The country, devastated by the Ebola virus in the last year ...

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 file photo, Portuguese player Luis Figo, left, of Spanish team Real Madrid receives his trophy as FIFA "World Player of The Year 2001" from Swiss FIFA president Joseph Blatter, center, and Georges Weah of Liberia ...

"I'm excited for him because he has that carrot dangling this year around September where he is going to be eligible for the National Team," Porter said. "Whether or not Jurgen picks him, whether or not he's good enough, no one knows. It's not my job ...

The team trained nearly a third of the Liberian National Police force on basic protection measures, public education and community policing related to the disease. ... to Africa. He also notified his kids' school and the parents for the soccer team he ...

As the struggle to contain the insidious disease receded in the year under review, the Liberia Football Association's technical department, under Henry Browne put up a program to restart the rebuilding of the national soccer team, Lone Star and its ...

Top that with speed, agility and an international pedigree -- his father, Joe, played professional soccer in Europe and represented Liberia -- and it seemed Nagbe had all the ingredients to become one of the best in the league. In 2013, he finally ...

And what better way to do so than to use his influence to provide what has always been the most challenging item in the development of the game insufficient funding for the national team. In the days when local football got ... the development of a ...

It would be an extreme disappointment now that former national team players are handling the various teams and do not to receive the much needed wherewithal from those they are looking up to for the change of fortunes that the various national teams ...

FILE - In this Friday, June 30, 2006 file photo, Portugal's national soccer player Luis Figo eyes the ball during a training session in Marienfeld, Germany. Luis Figo said in an interview on ... 17, 2001 file photo, Portuguese player Luis Figo, left ...

It is disheartening that Zimbabwe's top footballers see their ultimate destination as South Africa when that country's national team itself is sliding down the ladder in Africa. There is need to have a relook at the whole Cosafa Cup tournament and see ...