Articles tagged with "african-cup-of-nations"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 9th, 2008
For all the big name superstar talent and the renovated stadiums, the single most important thing at the African Cup of Nations is the ball. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 9th, 2008
One of the many great things about the African Cup of Nations are the team nicknames. Some inspire fear, others not so much. For ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Jan 8th, 2008
Ivory Coast coach Uli Stielike has left the team, the day before their departure for training camp in Kuwait, due to his son’s condition. It ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 8th, 2008
There are now 12 days until Ghana 2008 kicks off and the African Cup of Nations goodness begins. That means there are 12 more teams ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 8th, 2008
Everton and all the other Premier League clubs trying to undermine the African Cup of Nations got a nice shiny black eye from FIFA yesterday. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 8th, 2008
Between you and I, I've never really liked Hossam Ghaly. The Egyptian midfielder undoubtedly has talent, but made a (bad) name for himself in May ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 8th, 2008
Clickable links (are there any other kind?) from around World Cup Blog, The Offside and everywhere else.
Now we know what the most dramatic way to ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Rami | Jan 7th, 2008
Those who know African and Arab football are aware that Tunisia boasts one of the finest leagues in the region. Etoile du Sahel's victory in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
The are now 13 days - less than two weeks - until Ghana face Guinea in Accra to kick off the 2008 African Cup of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Ben Bamfuchile was laid to rest in Zambia today, attracting a crowd of around 5,000. The Zambian soccer coach had been scheduled to lead Namibia ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Jan 6th, 2008
Well it looks like coach Uli Stielike has decided to place full faith in a Drogba recovery. Despite recently undergoing surgery and having just ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 6th, 2008
It's now 14 days until African Cup of Nations kick off and there are still 14 teams to preview. We've already been introduced to Ghana ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 5th, 2008
It's now 15 days until the African Cup of Nations begins, which is just enough time to profile the 15 remaining teams (we had a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 4th, 2008
There are 16 days until the African Cup of Nations gets started and 16 teams to get to know. So the World Cup Blog preview ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 4th, 2008
Plenty of clubs are putting up a fight to prevent their African players heading off to the African Cup of Nations. Portsmouth are preparing to ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Inara | Jan 4th, 2008
Another day, another Premiership club mad at the African Cup of Nations. What else is new?
This time, it's Harry Redknapp and his Portsmouth friends ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 4th, 2008
African Cup of Nations sponsor MTN made this nice little video to promote the upcoming tournament. With all the phone business at the end there ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Inara | Jan 4th, 2008
Ack! I'm gone for the holidays, and so much has happened while I was gone. I had planned to write about the untimely injury to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 3rd, 2008
The 2008 installment of the African Cup of Nations begins 17 days from now on January 20th, when hosts Ghana take on Guinea in Accra. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 3rd, 2008
Stephen Appiah is going to need some new business cards. Where it used to say "footballer, captain of Ghana" it will now read "special advisor," ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Jan 2nd, 2008
As the African Cup of Nations draw closer, two EPL teams, Arsenal and Chelsea, are going to be without the services of four Ivorians. Arsenal’s ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Rami | Jan 2nd, 2008
Mosaique FM caught onto the news from France that Fahd Ben Khalfallah is set to refuse to take part in the African Cup training camp ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 1st, 2008
Happy New Year everyone. Here's looking forward to a great year, with the African Cup of Nations just around the corner and Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
There's been a clamour in Nigeria for Berti Vogts to recall playmaker Jay-Jay Okocha for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. But the German boss ...
Posted on: Cote d'Ivoire World Cup Team Blog by gianfranco | Dec 26th, 2007
It is extremely difficult to not talk about Didier Drogba when discussing the Ivory Coast. The
Chelsea hitman has become synonymous with and talismanic for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 26th, 2007
I've been slowly but surely getting very very excited for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana this coming January. But excitement turned to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 21st, 2007
As the African Cup of Nations gets closer, the complaining from Premier League clubs gets louder. Chelsea are bracing themselves for the loss of Didier ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 20th, 2007
The 2008 African Cup of Nations begins exactly one month from today people. To get you in the mood, here are the top 10 goals ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Inara | Dec 19th, 2007
Ghana is expecting their country to be flooded with over 1,000,000 visitors, which is double the amount of visitors who came to Egypt for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 19th, 2007
A graduate student using seismometers to trace earthquake activity in Cameroon was apparently mystified by eight unexplained squiggles on his chart in late January and ...
