Articles tagged with "angola"
Posted on: Algeria World Cup Team Blog by Omar | Nov 21st, 2009
CAF 2010, the Groups
Group A (matches in Luanda and Cabinda):
Angola, Mali, Malawi, Algeria
Group B (matches in Cabinda and Luanda):
Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Nov 18th, 2009
Manucho might have played his last game for the National team under Manuel Jose.
The forward arrived late (along with Flavio) to the team camp prior ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Sep 2nd, 2009
The squad to face the Cape Verde and Senegal has been announced.
All eyes will be on Dominique Kivuvu who plays for N.E.C in Netherlands. Kivuvu ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Aug 31st, 2009
The Palancas Negras recorded a convincing win over Togo in their latest friendly match played in August 12.
Manuel Jose played two different sides on ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jun 4th, 2009
Manuel Jose announced his first squad since becoming the National team Manager.
Originally, Manuel Jose left out the Angolan league's top scorers (Love and David) because ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | May 14th, 2009
The Angolan FA (FAF) have announced that they have signed former Al Ahly coach Manuel Jose for a period of a year, with the option ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Apr 23rd, 2009
Following the negative results and terrible perfomances of the national team, the FAF has parted company with manager Mabi De Almeida.
Mabi De Almeida's period as ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Mar 29th, 2009
The Palancas Negras are currently going through their worst possible phase.
Following the humiliation at the hands of Mali, faithful fans expected a tactical improvement from ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Mar 8th, 2009
Ok, I know a lot of people maybe upset or even angry with me since the blog hasn't been updated for a long time but ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Feb 12th, 2009
The Angolan national team suffered an embarrassing defeat by Mali in Wednesday's friendly.
The Palancas created several chances in the first few minutes of the match ...
Posted on: Mali World Cup Blog by Brad | Feb 4th, 2009
Things are starting to gear up a bit for the final stage of African qualifiers for South Africa 2010. With Mali's first game in Group ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 16th, 2009
Manucho Goncalves has been loaned to Hull City for the rest of the season.
The deal is a perfect opportunity for the Angolan forward to establish ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 15th, 2009
In a recent interview, Almeida admitted that the Angolan technical team will start scouting for players in Europe.
The technical team will spend 2 weeks in ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Dec 17th, 2008
There are still many Angolan players in Europe that are unknown to the people in Angola. The Angolan FA (FAF) needs to step up and ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Nov 28th, 2008
Mabi de Almeida was confirmed as the permanent replacement for Oliveira Goncalves earlier this week.
His coaching staff will include Zeca Amaral (Benfica de Luanda ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Nov 22nd, 2008
Heavy rain spoiled what could have been a very interesting match. The end result of the heavy rain was a string of terrible misses by ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 24th, 2008
The Angolan FA has announced that the National Team will play 10 friendly games before the Nations Cup in 2010.
The first match will be against ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 24th, 2008
Let’s be honest and admit that when Kali and Rui Marques are not playing as central defenders for the Palancas, the team looks incredibly fragile. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 22nd, 2008
The FIFA suits gathered in Zurich this afternoon to draw the remaining 20 African World Cup hopefuls into five groups of four for the ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 14th, 2008
Angola beat Niger on Sunday but still failed to reach the final phase of the World Cup qualification.
The match kicked-off 2 hours later than the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 14th, 2008
African World Cup qualifying is a tough old business. In 2010 we started with 53 teams, a big number that has to be whittled down ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 10th, 2008
Mabi de Almeida has made his first selection since taking over from Oliveira Goncalves. Here is a list of the selected players:
Goalkeepers: Capoco (Recreativo ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 4th, 2008
Oliveira Goncalves has been sacked from his role as Angolan national team manager.
Goncalves transformed the Angolan national team when he took charge in 2003.
Having ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Sep 16th, 2008
Manucho is likely to make his debut for Man Utd in Wednesday's match against Villareal. Although I doubt he will start the match, he is ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Sep 12th, 2008
The African World Cup Qualifying zone looks like this at the moment:
GROUP 1
P W D L GF GA Pts
Cameroon ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 8th, 2008
World Cup 2010 qualifying could be a bit of an embarrassment for South Africa. The team are already qualified for the tournament as hosts of ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Sep 7th, 2008
Angola lost their match against Benin in Cotonou and are now facing an early World cup qualifying exit.
Oliveira Goncalves opted for an offensive mentality, hoping ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Aug 30th, 2008
Oliveira Goncalves made some surprise choices in his latest selection. He left out regular players such as Ze Kalanga, Rui Marques and Manucho in favour ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jul 5th, 2008
The Palancas are in a difficult position in the WC qualifiers, following their draw with Uganda at home (0-0).
With two games remaining in the group, ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jun 17th, 2008
The last two weeks were very eventful for the Palancas Negras. They played two world cup qualifiers, one against Niger (which they won 2-1) and ...
