Articles tagged with "african-cup-of-nations"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 5th, 2008
Is Essam El-Hadary going to be our test case for the Webster ruling, or isn't he? The battle is on.
Just last week Daryl was ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 26th, 2008
Ghanaian tabloid Graphic Sports recently ran a story about a Ghanaian family claiming kinship with Barcelona and Cameroon superstar striker (and all time Africa Cup ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 16th, 2008
Ninety-nine goals. Some of them pretty spectacular. Watch them here and look forward to 2010.
(First spotted on 101 Great Goals)
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 11th, 2008
After watching the majority of the games at the Africa Cup of Nations I wanted to sit down and pick a team of the tournament. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 11th, 2008
If your country just won the Africa Cup of Nations then you'd honk your car horn and celebrate too. Here's a quick roundup of all ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 11th, 2008
Egypt's Essam Al-Hadary and Mohamed Zidan celebrate their Africa Cup of Nations victory from on top of the goalframe.
(GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 10th, 2008
Today's Africa Cup of Nations Final was a well-contested game between two well-drilled teams, and in the end it all came down to one mistake. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 10th, 2008
It's the big one today, the Africa Cup of Nations final. It's Pharaohs vs Indomitable Lions as holders Egypt take on Cameroon, who won the ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Inara | Feb 10th, 2008
Wow. What a week for the Black Stars. Due to a particularly hectic work week, I wasn't able to keep up with my blogging duties ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 9th, 2008
After three weeks of mostly brilliant football, there's just one game to go. Egypt vs Cameroon in the Africa Cup of Nations Final. Egypt have ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 9th, 2008
Here's the reason Cameroon's Andre Bikey will miss the Africa Cup of Nations Final on Sunday. Still can't quite figure out what he was thinking. ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Feb 9th, 2008
Well there is not much that I can really say here to make myself feel any better. Yesterday’s game reminds me a bit of a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 9th, 2008
Do we really need to be LiveBlogging the third place playoff? Maybe not. But today's game should be better than most, with two teams who ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 9th, 2008
Claude LeRoy is not a happy man. Obviously he's not happy that the Black Stars were dumped out in the Africa Cup of Nations semifinals ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 8th, 2008
I'm starting to get mixed feelings about the Confederation of African Football. Though I'm loving the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations and admire the confederation's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 8th, 2008
Morocco fired Henri Michel for the second time yesterday, citing "several reasons." At least one of those several reasons was Morocco's failure to make it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 7th, 2008
Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Samuel Eto'o were the big names expected to play a big role in the Africa Cup of Nation semifinals today. But ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 7th, 2008
Cote d'Ivoire 1-4 Egypt FINAL
Keita 63'; Fathy 12', Zaky 62' 67', Aboutreika 90'
Cup of Nations semi-final
Date: Thursday 7 February
Kick-off: 2030 GMT
Venue: Kumasi Sports ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 7th, 2008
It's the first Africa Cup of Nations semi-final, with The Black Stars taking on the Indomitable Lions.
Ghana 0-1 Cameroon
--------------------Nkong 70'
Semifinal
Date: Thursday, February 7th
Venue: Ohene Djan ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 6th, 2008
In my humble opinion, semifinals are always the best bit of any tournament. You're down to four quality teams, all of whom are in some ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 5th, 2008
Remember how Fredi Kanoute won the African Player of the Year award for 2007? Well, turns out he didn't. Not really. Kanoute has the award ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 4th, 2008
This picture came from Home Page Ghana after Ghana's come-from-behind, ten-man win over Nigeria's Super Eagles.
Home Page Ghana says:
Anger and disappointment ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 4th, 2008
Another day of action at the Africa Cup of Nations. At the end of it all, we now have our four semi-finalists. Egypt withstood a ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Feb 4th, 2008
The Elephants dispatched
Guinea in a five goal drubbing yesterday. The Elephants attacked in waves early and often and it was only a matter before ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 4th, 2008
We know who three of our semi-finalists are (Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt) and now we find out who joins them. It's Cameroon vs Tunisia, Indomitable ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 4th, 2008
Egypt 2-1 Angola FINAL
Hosny 23' (pen), 38' Zaky; Manucho 26'
What: African Cup of Nations Quarter-Finals
Who: Egypt vs. Angola
When: Monday, 4 February 2008, 17:00 GMT, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 3rd, 2008
The Africa Cup of Nations is disappearing fast. With two quarterfinals today that leaves just six games to go, total. And that's if you include ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 3rd, 2008
It's Cote d'Ivoire (or Ivory Coast, if your prefer) vs Guinea in our second Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinal.
Cote d'Ivoire 5-0 Guinea
Kader Keita 24'
Drogba 70'
Kalou ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 3rd, 2008
We kick off the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals today with the big one. Ghana vs Nigeria, Black Stars vs Super Eagles, for a place ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 3rd, 2008
Mali's Fredi Kanoute was named African Footballer of the Year 2007 on Friday, edging out Didier Drogba and Michael Essien in a vote by ...
