Articles tagged with "africa"
King of Morocco > FC Barcelona
By chris | October 28th, 2008An 18 year old Moroccan schoolboy is in seriously hot water after paying allegiances to his favorite football team, FC Barcelona, over the king of ...
Daily Dose: October 21st, 2008.
By chris | October 21st, 2008Stuff to read while you evade a police chase in a golf cart..... Back to normal in the Bundesliga. (Guardian Unlimited) Draw for the next round of ...
Didier Drogba Doesn't Want to Be 2008 African Footballer of the Year
By Daryl | October 15th, 2008The Confederation of African Football named its shortlist of five for 2008 African Footballer of the Year yesterday, and Didier Drogba's name was on there. ...
Offside Exclusive: Matthew Mbuta
By Dave Martinez | October 15th, 2008Amidst the hustle and bustle of the FIFA 09 release party, held at the Argentine Downtown Eatery, Novecento, Matt Mbuta, the newly acquired right wing ...
Name to Remember: Tresor Mputu
By chris | October 12th, 2008His name has been floating about for some time as the latest unpolished diamond the emerge from the heart of Africa, but without a concrete ...
Daily Dose 10.10.08
By Laurie | October 10th, 2008Some news to read as you get shot by your stove: I know we covered the Spanish beer thing yesterday, but these guys' photo is better. ...
Dynamos in CAF Champions League Semis
By Daryl | October 2nd, 2008Unfancied CFR Cluj and FC BATE Borisov have made good starts to their UEFA Champions League campaigns (Cluj are still unbeaten after playing Roma away ...
New African Soccer Magazine is Now Free
By Daryl | September 30th, 2008Back in January we spent a month covering the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations on WCB. The three things I took away from this were: ...
Trialist Sainey Tourey Signed. Ubiparipovic, Vindicated.
By Dave Martinez | August 29th, 2008After trialing with the team the past two weeks, Gambian youth player Sainey Tourey has signed on the dotted line for the Red Bulls and ...
Al-Ahly Dominating the Cairo Derby
By Daryl | July 28th, 2008If you're wondering why Zamalek keeper Mohamed Abdel Monsef looks so distraught in the above video, it's because he knows Zamalek have just lost to ...
Laughing Cow Preview/African Soccer Update?/SONG OF THE WEEK RETURNS
By Sean | July 26th, 2008I know I'm usually relatively conservative on my predictions here, but tomorrow's match is easy to call. It's a Quakes win. You may ...
Controversial Footballers #3 Samuel Eto'o
By Rob | July 22nd, 2008As part of our occasional series on divisive footballers (See previous entries Here and Here) we turn to Barcelona (for the time being) striker Samuel ...
Ahmed Hassan Makes Dream Al-Ahly Debut
By Daryl | July 21st, 2008This is the goal that won the massive Cairo derby yesterday. Al-Ahly vs Zamalek is always always massive in Egypt, but yesterday the old foes ...
The Offside Euro 2008 Champion: Charles Snyder
By Dave Martinez | July 11th, 2008Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning ...
Cricket Moves Against Mugabe ... Should Football Follow?
By Ian Rose | June 27th, 2008We've had a few comments here on the site suggesting that the 2010 World Cup in South Africa should be boycotted, partially in response to ...
Tournament Brackets and Deadline Tommorrow Night!
By Dave Martinez | June 24th, 2008Hey all, Here are the brackets for the tournament so far. I need participants who havent played their games (I think only one remains) to get moving! ...
Daily Dose 4.24.08
By Laurie | April 24th, 2008Some news to read as you beat somebody up in the Mad Tea Party line at Disney World: Best football commercial ever made? I don't ...
Weekend Recap: Heartbreak and/or Male-Bonding Hugs
By Laurie | April 21st, 2008It's that nailbiting time of the season in most leagues, especially for those teams that are close to the top and in the title race, ...
The Other, Other Champions League
By Ian Rose | April 20th, 2008As UEFA prepares for its first big week of semifinals (both in the Champions League and UEFA Cup), and the Copa Libertadores moves on to ...
Essam El-Hadary Leaves Al Ahly...Again
By Inara | March 30th, 2008Al Ahly goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary has been in the news quite frequently in recent weeks. We at the Offside and World Cup Blog seem to ...
Looking for Egyptian Football Bloggers
By Daryl | March 15th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnhqvEOXGag[/youtube] Plenty of Egyptian football news lately. There was the Africa Cup of Nations triumph, the El-Hadary to Sion saga and most recently Al-Ahly's 2-0 win ...
Al-Ahly Win Cairo Derby, Continue to Dominate Egyptian League
By Daryl | March 15th, 2008It was the Cairo derby last night, easily the biggest and best game in Egyptian football. Africa Cup of Nations heroes Mohamamed Aboutreika and Essam ...
Is Essam El-Hadary Testing Webster Ruling? Maybe, maybe not
By Laurie | March 5th, 2008Is Essam El-Hadary going to be our test case for the Webster ruling, or isn't he? The battle is on. Just last week Daryl was ...
Google Wants Everyone to Know...
By Laurie | February 22nd, 2008Google would like you to know that, contrary to rumor, they do not censor images for political content. Even explosive little hot potatoes like ...
Meet the "Golden Lady" of Botswana Football
By Laurie | February 13th, 2008The most interesting part of this article? When I started reading it, I thought Tshepho Mphoeng was being honored for her contributions to women's ...
Who's Hot/Who's Not
By chris | February 12th, 2008I think this is rather self-explanatory. Hot.:. Carlo Ancelotti.: I'll be frank regarding Carletto: his substitutions often suck ass. At least whenever I've watched, especially this season. And ...
Photo of the Day: Ominous
By chris | February 11th, 2008This photo was taken the day before Cameroon faced Egypt in the ACN final. The dark clouds in the background didn't just forecast the weather, ...
Weekend Recap: Up on Top
By Laurie | February 11th, 2008A few results from the weekend: Saturday Ghana vs. Cote d’Ivoire. African Cup of Nations 3rd place playoff. I really expected Didier Drogba's Cote d'Ivoire team ...
Weekend Watch: The Scent of Victory
By Laurie | February 8th, 2008Just a few of this weekend's interesting matches: Saturday Ghana vs. Cote d'Ivoire. African Cup of Nations 3rd place playoff. A lot of ...
Now Drogba Loves Chelsea Again, But Not CAF
By Daryl | February 5th, 2008Not so long ago, Didier Drogba was all set to ditch Chelsea. "Something is broken at Chelsea," remember? Well after a few months under Avram ...
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