UCL and UEL set for dramatic World Cup-style finales
This season’s UEFA Champions League and Europa League are set for unprecedented dramatic finishes following the suspension of the two competitions due to the outbreak of the novel corona virus pandemic.
Europe’s football-governing body, UEFA is putting plans in motion...
Renard: Cote d’Ivoire rode luck to beat Ghana to Afcon 2015 title
Two-time Africa Cup of Nations-winning coach, Hervé Renard has confessed his second title triumph was a stroke of luck.The Frenchman - who had previously beaten the odds to win the title with Zambia in 2012 - repeated the magic...
Why this African basketball league is “bigger than basketball”
The conclusion of the second season of Africa's newest league, the FIBA and NBA-backed Basketball Africa League has shown that support for the game is growing by leaps and bounds. That's good news for Africa's urban youth, for youth...
World record set on Africa’s most iconic mountain
Pointing to the summit -
AJ Calitz (right) and Christiaan Greyling (left) of Team K-Way take stock of the magnitude of the challenge. Picture: Stephen Granger
The K-Way team of AJ Calitz and Christiaan Greyling have made it into the...
How trail running’s focus on health is enabling a zero-tolerance doping culture.
Trail running, of all the athletics disciplines, would appear the least likely to attract drug cheats. One definition of the sport is "running in the heart of nature". The sport's promotion of a healthy lifestyle would appear to make...
The running academy driving South Africa’s distance running revolution
As a young girl, Elana van Zyl delighted at running along the tracks and roads on her parents’ farm near Albertina. At first, running was just fun. Later, she discovered that it was something she could do better than...
Africa’s stadium boom can be used to build prosperity beyond sports
Africa is witnessing rapid investment in sports infrastructure, with Morocco building the largest football stadium in the world ahead of the 2030 World Cup. Experts believe the conditions now exist for this infrastructure to drive economic prosperity.
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The Rise of Women’s Football in Africa: Transforming the game and challenging the status...
A report from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) shows significant growth in women playing, coaching, and refereeing football. CAF plans to boost this growth with new funding, development and structural investments, starting from the grassroots level.
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Can African football rise above the “age” conundrum?
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic “ - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In a span of just 8 years - from 1985 to 1993...
“Football builds bridges – and is the ice-breaker.” Mainz 05 holds first German-Nigerian Online...
An online engagement between former Nigerian football players, a sports historian, a top African sports organiser and German sports professionals has opened up a dialogue that is creating a great deal of interest and excitement in African sporting circles.
Two...