Friday, March 29, 2024

Football

The beautiful game played in Africa. News, events, results, analysis, statistics, profiles, colour stories and more, from across the continent.

Boniface, new kid on the block at Bayer 04 Leverkusen

With two Bundesliga goals and one assist to date, Victor Boniface has made a flying start to his Bayer 04 Leverkusen career. The 22-year-old Nigerian striker, formerly at Norwegian club Bodø/Glimt, had only switched to Belgian first division outfit...

Q&A with Victor Boniface

With two Bundesliga goals and one assist to date, Victor Boniface has made a flying start to his Bayer 04 Leverkusen career. The 22-year-old Nigerian striker, formerly at Norwegian club Bodø/Glimt, had only switched to Belgian first division outfit...

Greenwood to leave Man Utd as investigation is concluded

Mason Greenwood is to leave Manchester United after the club concluded its internal investigation into the player. Greenwood, 21, last played for United on 22 January 2022, and was arrested in the same month after allegations that surfaced following the...

Tender process opens in Australia for media rights to the FIFA World Cup 2026™...

The respective tenders also allow for the opportunity to bid for the FIFA World Cup 2030™ and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2031™ZURICH, Switzerland, August 14, 2023/ -- FIFA (https://www.FIFA.com) has launched two separate invitations to tender (ITT) in Australia...

African players who lit up the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Joel Omotto shortlists Africa's bright shining stars at the 2023 World Cup. by Joel Omotto, bird story agency Africa’s journey at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup ended at the Round of 16 where South Africa,Nigeria and Morocco all exited the...

Infantino marks one million instagram followers, insists “Women’s football is top priority”

FIFA's president Gianni Infantino has stated that growing women's football to unprecedented heights is of prime concern to the world's football government as he marked reaching the one million followers milestone on the social media platform, Instagram. The glitz and...

Women’s Football World Cup: African teams make history as three advance to the Round...

African teams have made a great impression at the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Their performance shows just how much the women’s game has improved across the continent. by Joel Omotto, bird story agency Following the conclusion of...

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura to Receive the World Football Summit Lifetime Achievement Award

The World Football Summit (WFS) (www.WorldFootballSummit.com), the biggest platform dedicated to the football industry, and APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, are proud to announce that FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura has...

Will Sundowns win a record-extending 14th PSL title?

The knives are out again and battle lines are drawn. Dstv’s glamorous, exciting money-spinning South African Premiership race is here once again as the big and (not so big) guns chase the plum prize of R15Million and a glittering trophy...

Bundesliga Transfer round up

The summer transfer window has thrown up some interesting movements in and out. Defending champions Bayern Munich have brought in Min-jae Kim, Konrad Laimer and Raphael Guerreiro, big rivals, Borussia Dortmund have been busy as well with ...
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