Articles tagged with "african-nations-cup"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 19th, 2008
There's always a bit of confusion over exactly what to call this tournament. Is it the African Nations Cup? The Cup of African Nations? Should ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 19th, 2008
FIFA President Sepp Blatter was at it again yesterday, opening his big mouth to make wacky football-related proclamations. His latest idea is that the African ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
If you're following The Black Stars, then you've already read the bad news on Inara's Ghana blog. The Ghanaian FA booked the team into the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 17th, 2008
He kept it quiet, but seems Alex Ferguson was feeling a bit left out of all this African Cup of Nations business. Chelsea had to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 16th, 2008
You'd be forgiven for thinking MLS won't be represented at the African Cup of Nations. But you'd be wrong. Colorado Rapids keeper Bouna Coundoul has ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 16th, 2008
There's nothing like the pressure of living up to a famous footballing father. Some players find it impossible. Just ask Jordi Cruyff. For others like ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 15th, 2008
The 16 African Cup of Nations teams will be competing on the field in just five days time, but World Cup Blog continues to compare ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 15th, 2008
Seems all that complaining from Premier League managers about the African Cup of Nations interrupting their season is going to pay off, as the Confederation ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 14th, 2008
There are now just six days until Ghana face Guinea and the African Cup of Nations gets started, and six more teams to preview. We've ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 14th, 2008
With the exception of Côte d'Ivoire's Group C rivals Nigeria, Benin and Mali, everyone is hoping to see a healthy, goal-scoring Didier Drogba at the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 14th, 2008
Poor Francis Dickoh. Eighteen months ago, the Danish born Ghanaian defender played for the Black Stars before, after, but not during World Cup 2006. Still, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 12th, 2008
There are now only eight days until Ghana 2008 gets going, which means eight more teams to preview. It also means we've reached the halfway ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
There now nine days until African Cup of Nations kick off, which means nine more teams still to preview. We've already given Group A and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
Zambia coach Patrick Phiri has ditched two if his biggest-name from the Chipolopolo African Cup of Nations squad. Zambia's most famous striker Collins Mbesuma (pictured ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
The December 2007 FIFA World Rankings have Nigeria as the highest placed African Cup of Nations team, with the Super Eagles up in 20th place. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 9th, 2008
Samuel Eto'o will be reporting late for African Cup of Nations duty with Cameroon next week. Barcelona claim to have written permission for Eto'o to ...
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: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Sep 6th, 2006
What an exciting time to be a fan of Angola. First our team does better than expected at the World Cup and now we ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 19th, 2006
We're a bit biased in these parts. We happen to think the World Cup is the greatest sporting event in the history of sporting ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Mar 5th, 2006
Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA once said that an African team will win the World Cup someday. Looking at a map of Africa, one can ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Add our friend's at the FIFA website to the list of naysayers who have jumped off the Angola bandwagon after the African Nations Cup. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 14th, 2006
There are conflicting reports about the status of Togo coach Stephen Keshi. According to news sources in Togo, Keshi has been fired. Bora ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 13th, 2006
Nigeria might be a lovely country, but boy are its football journalists arrogant. Still smarting over their team's failure to qualify for the World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 10th, 2006
Ivory Coast's string of penalty kick success came to a crashing end in the final of the African Nations Cup with Egypt keeper Essam Al ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Jenny Jennifer | Feb 10th, 2006
I'm very excited to be joining the World Cup Blog team! I'm an American, married to a Tunisian and I've been following Tunisian soccer ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 10th, 2006
After 120 minutes of scoreless football, Ivory Coast and Egypt will decide who will be champion of the 25th African Cup of Nations through penalty ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Feb 9th, 2006
Togo manager, Stephen Keshi may get the axe after a bad showing in the African Nations Cup. Togo went 0-3 (that's won 0, lost 3 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 8th, 2006
With only 120 days to go, the World Cup is right around the corner. Ok, maybe not, but the Holy Grail is in sight ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Feb 5th, 2006
When I look at a team's chances in an upcoming World Cup I look at their qualifying results. The fact that the African Nations ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Feb 5th, 2006
Togo did not set the world on fire at this African Nations Cup. They were in Group C with Cameroon, Congo and Angola, playing ...
