Excellent op-ed in he New York Times by Roger Cohen, who spent part of his childhood in apartheid South Africa. It’s worth reading the whole thing but here’s the best bit: South Africa will probably become the first host nation ever to fail to qualify for the second round. That would be sad but in [...]
Fascinating interview with Cameroon and Tottenham defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto in today’s Guardian. He is not your average footballer. Assou-Ekotto is beginning to look ahead to the World Cup finals with Cameroon. Although he was born in France and has a French mother, there has never been any issue over his allegiance. Like many young people [...]
In the wake of Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Chile the BBC’s Tim Vickery recalls how the country’s plans to host the World Cup in 1962 were threatened by a similar tragedy two years earlier: “The idea that the 1962 World Cup could in some way ‘compensate’ for the earthquake is clearly foolish and lacking in all [...]
The Taxmen will on the Bankers this weekend in the first round second leg of the African Champions League on Saturday. The first leg between Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Zambia National Commercial Bank ended 1-0 in Kampala. Some of the best teams in African leagues tend to be linked to a government department or [...]
Congo’s TP Mazembe won the African Super Cup last weekend, beating Stade Malien 2-0 in Lubumbashi. The trophy is as meaningless as the European version, but Mazembe’s owner, Moise Katumbi will be happy. Katumbi, who is also governor of Congo’s Katanga province, wants to turn Mazembe into Africa’s biggest club. Last year his budget for [...]
At the Africa Cup of Nations one man has been everywhere. Large portraits of Angola’s president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, hang from every side of the ground in Luanda’s new 11 November stadium. When the host nation was playing, until they were knocked out by Ghana last Sunday, dos Santos was there in person too, [...]
Hundreds of people were killed in the northern Nigerian city of Jos last week following an outbreak of violence between Muslims and Christians. After Nigeria’s 3-0 win against Mozambique on Wednesday, which sealed their place in the quarter-finals, forward Osaze Peter Odemwingie dedicated the win to those who died in Jos and spoke about why [...]
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