Zimbabwe coach Kallisto Pasuwa has named a powerful squad for the African Nations Cup qualifier against Guinea in Conakry on September 4. The Warriors have already qualified for next year’s finals in Gabon, but can use the game as preparation for that tournament. Pasuwa will have a selection headache with his forwards, even though he
The COSAFA region is guaranteed representation in the African Champions League final this year after both Zambia’s Zesco United and Mamelodi Sundowns from South Africa advanced to the semifinals. The pair will meet in the Last 4 with the winner to advance to the October final, where they will face one of Moroccan side Wydad
A course for CAF Women’s Instructors from around Africa was recently held in Cameroon at the CAF technical Centre in Mbankomo. The course was conducted by Ehypt’s Mohamed Abdul-Meneim, also known as ‘Shatta’, Dominique Niyonzima from Burundi and South Africa’s Fran Hilton-Smith. There were 24 participants from English-speaking African countries as well as the coaches
The COSAFA Executive Committee had handed out fines and suspensions to members of the Botswana team at the recent COSAFA Castle Cup in Namibia, as well as those players and officials found guilty of age-cheating at the COSAFA Under-17 Championships. Botswana coach Peter Butler, and players Boitumelo Mafoko and Joel Mogorosi, have been handed two
COSAFA Under-17 Championship winners, Namibia’s Baby Warriors have jetted out to Congo-Brazzaville for their Confederation of African Football (CAF) 2017 U-17 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers second-round second leg at the Alphonse Massemba-Debat Stadium in Brazzaville on Sunday afternoon. The Namibians will look to avenge a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Congo two weeks
The remaining COSAFA sides in the 2017 African Under-17 Championships qualifiers will be in action this weekend as they seek to advance to the final round of the preliminaries. COSAFA Under-17 Championship winners Namibia were beaten 2-1 at home by Congo-Brazzaville in the first leg of their tie and face elimination from the competition unless
The South African men’s Olympic team was knocked out of the 2016 Games following a 1-1 draw with Iraq in a do or die affair on Wednesday. South Africa opened the scoring in the 6th minute with a great goal when Andile Fikizolo played in a beautiful ball that Gift Motupa slotted into the back of
Head coach of the South African Men’s Olympic Team says they let themselves down in the 1-0 loss to Denmark in their second match of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The clash took place on Sunday, 7 August 2016 at the Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia. The South Africans created a lot of chances in
COSAFA side South Africa put up a great fight in their first match of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games against Brazil as they held the hosts to a famous goalless draw and in the process earn themselves a precious point. In a match played at Mane Garrincha Stadium in the capital city of Brazil, Brasilia,
It was a tough opening round of matches for the COSAFA side’s in the 2016 Olympic Games women’s football tournament, though both equipped themselves well on a very tough stage. South Africa lost 1-0 to Sweden, undone by a goalkeeping error from Roxanne Barker in an otherwise fairly comfortable display. Zimbabwe took on the powerful
