African Sports

Ahmed Musa was still soaking everything in when his teammates surrounded him to celebrate his 100th cap for the Super Eagles. Musa had just completed his 100th Super Eagles cap following his 73rd-minute appearance in Nigeria’s 2-1 win over Cape Verde in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday, …

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has appealed to the British government to allow African players to travel for next month’s 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers. After Liverpool blocked Mohamed Salah’s invitation to Egypt’s squad, the Premier League announced that other clubs will not release their players to travel to …

Botswana has given each member of the country’s Olympic bronze-winning relay team a two-bedroom house. The 4x400m team took Botswana’s only podium spot at the just-concluded Tokyo Games. It’s the country’s second-ever Olympic medal, having won a silver in the London 2012 games. The relay team was made up of …

Didier Drogba has stepped down from his post as vice-president of the Ivory Coast Footballers Association (AFI), announcing his decision in a scathing letter released to social media that claimed the organisation has shown a “flagrant lack of coherence”. The former Chelsea star has been at odds with the AFI …

FIFA banned its former interim president, Issa Hayatou on Tuesday for alleged wrongdoing in a commercial deal for African soccer. Issa Hayatou, who was Confederation of African Football president for 29 years until 2017, was banned for one year for a breach of “duty of loyalty” rules, FIFA said in …

The draw for the zonal qualifiers of the inaugural Caf Women’s Champions Cosafa League qualifier took place in Johannesburg on Thursday. South African Champions Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies have been drawn in Group A where they will play alongside Lesotho Defence Force (Lesotho), Double Action Ladies (Botswana) and Wanderers LFC (Eswatini). …

Leon Balogun did not hold back when he spoke about the state of Nigeria’s national team in a recent interview. Leon Balogun was on The Beautiful Game Podcast where he was asked about the state of the Super Eagles and put the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on blast over unpaid …

South Africa’s Olympic football coach, David Notoane hit out at the “stigmatisation” of his Covid-hit squad after they were forced to isolate before their 1-0 defeat to Japan on Thursday. David Notoane said he had seen “people running away” from his team after two players and a video analyst tested …

The African Cup of Nations (CAN) will take place as planned in Cameroon in January 2022. During a 48 hour visit to the Central African country, CAF Secretary General Véron Mosengo-Omba dismissed rumours that said Cameroon could once more be stripped of hosting the continent’s biggest sporting competition by the …

Raja Casablanca of Morocco and JS Kabylie of Algeria take impressive CAF Confederation Cup unbeaten records into the final in Benin economic capital Cotonou on Saturday. Neither team have lost since the play-offs last February in the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League. Raja have gone 10 matches since …