Articles tagged with "palancas-negras"
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Dec 26th, 2009
Manuel Jose (MJ) announced his squad for the AFCON earlier this week and provided us with interesting points.
The surprises were the omission of Mateus Galiano ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Dec 26th, 2009
Manuel Jose (MJ) announced his squad for the AFCON earlier this week and provided us with interesting points.
The surprises were the omission of Mateus Galiano ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Dec 18th, 2009
There has been a ridiculous amount of hype regarding the talent of Pedro Kamata. Suddenly, Angola National team fans keep pestering sites with information on ...
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 | 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: 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: 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 | 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
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: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Oct 18th, 2008
The next Angolan coach will have a difficult task ahead of him. The next competitive match that Angola will play will be the first group ...
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: 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 | Aug 21st, 2008
Angola have drawn their friendly match against Tunisia by 1-1. The match was played in Monastir yesterday (20/08/08), and served as preparation for the upcoming ...
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 3rd, 2008
Angola kicked off their qualifying campaign in style by beating Benin 3-0. The goals were scored by Flavio, Job and Mendonca ( yes, Mendonca scored ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | May 8th, 2008
The 20-year-old NEC Nijmegen player will turn 21 in September and has to decide whether to represent Angola or to stick to the Dutch team.
Kivuvu ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Mar 27th, 2008
Goncalves used this match to field some players from the domestic league. Machado and Diangi were also given a debut appearance for the national team.
Japan ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Mar 18th, 2008
The friendly match will take place in Tokyo city on March 26.
Oliveira Goncalves wanted to field home based players only but Japan asked Angola to ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Feb 15th, 2008
Luis Oliveira Goncalves has admitted that he is "tracking" around 30 young players performing in European leagues. He feels that it is important to start ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Feb 8th, 2008
Angolan coach Luis Oliveira Goncalves, revealed in a recent interview that he is unhappy with the amount of criticism that he gets from certain sources ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Feb 5th, 2008
The Palancas negras might have lost the quarter-final match to Egypt, but the majority of the Angolans are still proud of the team.
There will ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 31st, 2008
No one knows whether Luis Oliveira Goncalves will stick to the previous line-up or rest some of his players. Considering how serious they are about ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 28th, 2008
An amazing display from Angola saw them beat Senegal 3-1.
After a poor start in the first half, the Palancas came back into the second ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 26th, 2008
Most people in Angola feel that the national team is not capable of winning this match. Reporters interviewed fans in Angola and those following the ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by kiko | Jan 21st, 2008
My name is Kiko and I will be taking over the Angolan blog. I will be posting regularly and I hope everyone can share their ...
