Sports

Africa’s Difficult World Cup Draw

By Abu B. Shaw, Vanguard London Bureau Chief. A World Cup draw, like any situation in this discipline, is normally a one group-of-death affair. What is (...)

| December 2005 | 1416 views

Kallon Finds a New Lease of Life

By Farayi Mungazi, BBC Sport. Mohamed Kallon has told BBC Sport that he is in no hurry to quit Saudi Arabian club Al Ittihad. The Sierra Leone (...)

| November 2005 | 1707 views

Africa’s Soccer Giants

By Abu B. Shaw, London It was scintillating and nerve-racking as dark clouds descended on various stadiums around Africa on October 8 2005. Four (...)

| October 2005 | 1400 views

Fifa to the Rescue

A ’special project’ is being put together by Fifa to improve the quality of African league football. Sepp Blatter, Fifa’s president, acknowledged that African (...)

| September 2005 | 1578 views

Enyimba Prepares for Battle

African soccer clubs are usually victims of all sorts of problems and it’s a wonder there are any competitions on the continent.Enyinmba,a Nigerian soccer (...)

| August 2005 | 1782 views

Are African Athletes Patriotic?

The patriotism of Africa’s sportsmen and women has been a topic of interest in recent years as more and more of the continent’s human assets in the field of (...)

| August 2005 | 2652 views