President Ali Bongo Ondimba, officially opened the Stade de l’Amitié, also known as the ‘friendship stadium’ on Sunday 27th November in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador, Mrs Li Fushun. The stadium has a 320metre long metal arch structure, the largest in Africa, built to represent the friendship that has been established between Gabon and [...]
The French Football Federation is to launch an investigation into claims the national coach, Laurent Blanc, along with other senior coaches wanted to secretly limit the proportion of black and North African players at regional youth training systems to 30%. Not only is the move, if found to be true, inherently racist it also attacks [...]
The Portuguese side’s Albert Ze Meyong and Uwa Echiejile will be the sole representatives of the continent in the Europa league final on the 18th May. The Champions League final will be devoid of any significant African participation. The Cameroonian striker Ze Meyong will in all likelihood provide the only starting player as his Nigerian [...]
After a promising start to their African Cup of Nations qualifying campaign defeat to Niger makes qualification look distant. Sierra Leone were drawn in arguably the most difficult qualifying group for the 2012 African Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Alongside Niger, they were drawn with Reigning champions and seven times winners Egypt [...]
FIFA have decided not to alter the amount of places occupied by African teams for the ‘14 World Cup. There were fears following the relatively unsuccessful World Cup, on the field, by the African sides at South Africa ‘10, with the exception of Ghana, that they could lose a place. And the decision to preserve [...]
The first black cricketer to represent the country caused tremendous controversy in ‘03 when he, along with his captain Andy Flower, wore black armbands during a cricket World Cup match to mourn the death of democracy in Zimbabwe. Olonga has since called time on his cricket career having been forced into exile, branded a traitor [...]
The stadium built just last year to host the Africa Cup of Nations now sits unused and deserted. We are now approximately 13 months on from when Egypt defeated Ghana to become the continent’s champions for the third time successively and seventh in total. Since then the stadium has been put into little use with [...]
The Manchester City centre back could face the maximum two year ban from all football activities for failing a drugs test, taken after the Manchester derby on the 12th of February. He has subsequently confirmed suspicions that he had taken his wife’s Awo’s diet pills. It is a confession that could result in the two [...]
A dispute over the nomination of a Ghanaian representative to the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) executive committee is pitting the country’s football association against the government. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) nominated its President, Kwesi Nyantakyi for the position three months ago. The country has not had a representative on the CAF since the [...]
Rugby teams from the Southern Hemisphere have so far dominated their northern rivals in a series of international clashes taking place during November. Both England and Wales lost games to New Zealand and Australia at the beginning of the month, and the Springbok’s demonstrated an encouraging return to form after their underwhelming tri-nations campaign by [...]
