SOUTH AFRICA TO PLAY MEXICO IN WORLD CUP OPENER

South Africa will play Mexico in the opening game of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The match will be played at Soccer City in Johannesburg at 4pm on Friday 11 June. South Africa is placed at 86th, according to Fifa’s world rankings, while Mexico is ranked 15th. Source: www.sapa.org.za; 20091104

WORLD CUP TROPHY TAKEN ON TRIP THROUGH AFRICA

Standing 36cm tall, weighing 6kg and made of solid gold, the original World Cup trophy is the most coveted trophy in the world. So precious and priceless is this piece of metal that only state presidents and world cup winners can touch it. But with every rule there are exceptions – and former president Nelson […]

Busacca gives the middle finger

Busacca, middle finger to the fans Three-match ban The referee of the last Champions League final loses control in the Swiss Cup after repeated chorus of Baden supporters. He reply badly, but a photographer got him on camera. Apologies are not enough and today (21 September 2009) the Swiss federation has stopped him for three […]

Fifa: all set for Egypt

Expectations are running high as the superstars of tomorrow prepare for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup which kicks off in Alexandria on Thursday.

South Africa: drug fears over 2010 Fifa world cup

International criminal organisations could use the 2010 Fifa world cup, to be held in South Africa by June next year, for selling large amounts of drugs as over 400,000 sport-crazy visitors are expected to enter the country. The alarm was recently launched by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and South Africa’s […]

South Africa: people await their gender medallist

It was a big time for miss Caster Semenya in the 2009 Berlin athletic Championship. For the International Amateur Athletic Federation, however, her gender identity needed to be tested. A move many South Africans do not welcome for anything. Some have cried foul for discrimination against the athlete.

Caulonia (Italy): "A KICK TO RACISM"

Caulonia, a small town near Reggio Calabria (southern Italy), wil host a special football 5-by-side tournament from August 3 to 5. All teams will be made by migrants and asylum seekers in Italy. The tournament will also host African citizens usually surviving in Rosarno. Here below you can find the program that includes meetings and […]

South Africa: volunteers wanted for World Cup 2010

The local organising committee of the Fifa World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2010 is looking for volunteers.  “The local organising committee will recruit 12,000 South Africans, 1500 volunteers from the rest of Africa and 1500 foreigners for the event”, as reported by Thetimes.co.za

Kenya: Sports Power House to miss Beijing Olympics

For the first time in the recent history of Olympic Games in Kenya, there will be no representative in next month’s 24th edition of Olympic Games in Beijing from St. Patricks high school Iten – the seedbed of International and elite runners in  Kenya. For the first time in the recent history of Olympic Games […]

Italian forced to pay US$ 180,000 to Kenyan athletes

An Italian athletics manager has been compelled to pay over KShs 10 million owed to three Kenyan athletes after the runners complained of being short changed by their boss. The aggrieved athletes Daniel Komen, Ismael Kombich and Moses Mosop had accused Gianni Denadona who manages several world renowned athletes, of deducting without their consent money […]