- New dawn for Kenya's soccer team - Coastweek
Many have dreamt of making it to the continent's biggest football competition but ended up disappointed. Now a new ray of hope is cutting through the cloud of doubt as Kenya named its team to prepare for the meeting against Emmanuel Adebayo's Togo on ...
- Bafana friendlies 'fixed' - SPORT24
Johannesburg - A senior South African Football Association official says Bafana Bafana's friendly matches ahead o
- The enigmatic Gale Agbossoumonde talks about his soccer odyssey and why he ... - The Independent Weekly
From fleeing his war-torn native Togo, where his father died when Agbossoumonde was only 7, to settling in upstate New York with his mother and seven siblings (his oldest sister still lives in Africa) to a still-nascent professional soccer career that ...
- Soccer-Six signs two year contract to coach Togo - Reuters Africa
LOME Jan 24 (Reuters) - Former French international Didier Six signed a two-year contract on Tuesday to become Togo's national team coach, the Togolese Football Federation announced. The 57-year-old Six oversaw two World Cup preliminary-round ...
- Match-fixing shades cup - Sydney Morning Herald
SOUTH African soccer officials have vowed not to allow agents to appoint referees for friendly fixtures after allegations of match-fixing at pre-2010 World Cup warm-up games resurfaced. The Sunday Times claimed matches against Thailand, Bulgaria, ...
- Togo duo's Song Becomes Unofficial Africa Cup Anthem - Voice of America
- Soccer Capsules: Cabanas returns despite bullet in his skull - Brownsville Herald
It's never doing to dominate, it's never going to replace college football or any sports, but it's going to grow over the next 10-20 years to an incredibly strong niche." Fox Soccer's average viewership is a fraction of the 2.8 million for the big ...
- South Korean soccer hero Jung-Hwan retires - CBC.ca
South Korea's 2002 World Cup hero Ahn Jung-hwan has officially retired from football. The 36-year-old striker became famous around the world for scoring the golden goal that eliminated Italy in the second round of the World Cup hosted jointly by Japan ...
- Soccer Capsules: US women qualify for Olympics - Brownsville Herald
Almeida said a poignant moment in their journey came when passing through the Cabinda region where the Togo football team was attacked by gunmen during the African Cup in Angola two years ago. "We weren't scared but we did think of what happened there ...
- Soccer-Amoros confirmed as Benin coach - Reuters Africa
Amoros had been the leading candidate for the post and after traveling to Cotonou he agreed a contract, the country's football federation president Moucharafou Anjorin told Reuters. Amoros, who turns 50 on Wednesday, had a brief spell in charge of the ...