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Lionel Messi believes anything can happen at the finals of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. World Player of the Year Messi says Greece won Euro2004, so why can’t it happen at the World Cup? Speaking ahead of Argentina’s opening Group B match against Nigeria at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, the Barcelona [...]
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Shunsuke Nakamura says his team is physically small so they must deal with the others by being better organised. The former Celtic play-maker and his Japanese team have been drawn in Group E alongside Denmark, the Netherlands and Cameroon.
It’s the Africans they play first in the city of Bloemfontein on June 14th. [...]
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Nikola Žigi? says he watched the African Cup of Nations tournament and Ghana, who reached the final, is a very dangerous rival. Serbia face Ghana in their opening match of the FIFA World Cup at Tshwane near Pretoria on June 13th.
Žigi? who plays his domestic football for Racing Santander in the Spanish [...]
Karim Matmour says it would be wonderful just to get past the group stages of the FIFA World Cup next month. A comment that seems defeatist but the Monchengladbach player is anything but. “In football anything is possible,” he says. “It is just as likely that the favorites are the ones who’ll get knocked out [...]
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[12-Feb-2010] The USA Sevens Rugby tournament debuts in Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium Feb. 13-14, 2010. The annual tournament draws thousands of international fans, and will enjoy even greater support since the October 9, 2009 announcement by the International Olympic Committee that Rugby Sevens will re-debut as an Olympic sport in 2016. [...]
By Luvei Times reporter
In Nairobi, troubled AFC Leopards football club has received financial and material help from a sympathizer.
The once famous club is steeped in leadership wrangles after surviving relegation in the premier league following fours years out of top flight football.
Maliza Umaskini director Sadat Muhindi donated Kshs 170,000, 15 boots and 10 balls at [...]
By Hudson Gumbihi
Nairobi January 17 2010. KENYA has officially pulled out of next month’s Africa Handball Club Championship in Cairo, Egypt, due to financial constraint.
Kenya Handball Federation (KHF) fixtures secretary Charles Omondi says local clubs, starved of cash, unanimously decided to skip the tournament.
“Because of the financial problems the federation and clubs are facing, we [...]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 2009
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham was in South Africa this week to highlight the global progress that has been made on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
During his busy stay, the football star visited a UNICEF-supported programme in a clinic in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha Township, where he met and [...]
Cape Town/Herzogenaurach,
On december 4, in Cape Town, adidas and FIFA presented the adidas JABULANI, the Official Match Ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
Comprising only eight, completely new, thermally bonded 3-D panels, which for the first time are spherically moulded, the JABULANI is perfectly round and even more accurate [...]
