Egyptian soccer star Mohamed Salah named African Player of the Year
Egypt and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has won the CAF African Player of the Year award, beating out his Senegalese club teammate Sadio Mane for [read more…]
Egypt and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has won the CAF African Player of the Year award, beating out his Senegalese club teammate Sadio Mane for [read more…]
The best players earn government salaries IN THE hot, golden light of an Abuja afternoon two men spin a rotating Scrabble board, oblivious to the [read more…]
Nigeria will be represented at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever, thanks to history makers, Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga, individuals [read more…]
South Africa head to Dublin for the first leg of a tour which could start to close wounds Twenty-five years ago, on a sunlit winter [read more…]
Countless boys in West Africa enrol in football academies to establish a career at one of Europe’s top teams, yet many of them are duped [read more…]
Lily Abdullayeva, who says she had prize money stolen and was tricked into taking drugs after moving to Azerbaijan, reveals the dark side of athletics [read more…]
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of German first division side Borussia Dortmund has won the “kicker Cannon” after scoring his 30th and 31st goals of the season against [read more…]
PITTSBURGH — Gift Ngoepe was aware of the significance of the moment when he put on his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for the first time in [read more…]
As FIFA’s secretary general, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura is one of the most powerful figures in world football. Her appointment last June was historic and [read more…]
FIFA president Gianni Infantino heads home on Wednesday morning after 10 days on the road in Africa. His whirlwind tour has been greeted with delight, [read more…]
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