Articles tagged with "african-cup-of-nations"
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 ...
Episode 9
By Ian Rose | February 6th, 2008This week, we discuss the Africa Cup of Nations and the end of the transfer season, with each of our picks for the most influential ...
Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinals at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | February 4th, 2008The Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals got off to a cracking start yesterday, when the Ghana vs Nigeria showdown actually lived up to the hype. ...
Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinals at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | February 3rd, 2008The Africa Cup of Nations group stages are well and truly behind us, and the real business of knockout tournament football starts today. And what ...
Bouna Time! Senegal's Top Keeper Parties, so Colorado's Coundoul Plays the Cup
By Laurie | February 1st, 2008French teams had 58 players in the African Cup of Nations. The English leagues had 42. (Although from their whining, you would have ...
Photo of the Day: A Piece of the Puzzle
By Martha | January 31st, 2008This is a tiny screencap from an amazing, huge photo of Ghana fans, in color-coordinated support of their team this week. (The whole thing -- ...
The Africa Cup of Nations Situation - Group D
By Daryl | January 31st, 2008Group C was nice and straightforward yesterday: Egypt won and Cameroon won, so Egypt and Cameroon went through. Group D could also be nice and ...
The Offside Podcast, Episode 8
By Martha | January 30th, 2008Now that it's reached the ripe old age of eight episodes, the Offside Podcast has earned its very own official subdomain, which is where all ...
Podcast Episode 8
By Ian Rose | January 30th, 2008Hey kids. Welcome to the new blog for the Offside podcast. Now that we've hammered out the format of the show a bit ...
The Africa Cup of Nations Situation - Group C
By Daryl | January 30th, 2008Africa Cup of Nations Groups A and B are now in the books, and so the alphabet dictates that today is Group C. All four ...
Daily Dose 1.29.08
By Martha | January 29th, 2008Things to read after the Blue Man Group shove a camera down your throat (allegedly): Mourinho to Valencia? (The Sun) Free Taylor Twellman! (Who Ate All ...
Photo of the Day: Taking the Game to the Masses
By Martha | January 29th, 2008Guinea's Pacal Feindouno sharpens his skills against a local who stumbled upon an African Cup of Nations training session over the weekend. (Even wearing clear ...
The Africa Cup of Nations Situation - Group B
By Daryl | January 29th, 2008Group A wrapped yesterday at the Africa Cup of Nations with Ghana and Guinea the lucky two going through to the quarterfinals. Today it's the ...
The Africa Cup of Nations Situation - Group A
By Daryl | January 28th, 2008It's crunch time at the Africa Cup of Nations, with just one round of group games to go. Each day a group will be decided, ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 25th, 2008We're well into the Africa Cup of Nations now. There've been goals galore, red cards and now even a bit of scandal. Group B resumes ...
Daily Dose: 1.24.08
By Martha | January 24th, 2008Things to read as you prepare to throw yourself at men for the sake of art: The rise of football in Africa. (Times Online) It's Burley for ...
Photo of the Day: Upping the Ante
By Martha | January 24th, 2008After seeing yesterday's PotD featuring a Nigeria supporter clad in body paint and briefs to support his team, this Ghana fan decided to do him ...
The Offside Podcast, Episode 7
By Martha | January 24th, 2008[Sorry for the weird look this week, the podcast was coded differently due to technical problems -- it's ugly, but it'll work just fine.] In this ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 24th, 2008All 16 Africa Cup of Nations teams have now played once each, so the cycle starts again and we return to Group A. Hosts Ghana ...
How Elrio van Heerden Saved South Africa
By Daryl | January 24th, 2008Every morning we try and bring you the best goal from yesterday's Africa Cup of Nations action. Yesterday it was tough to choose. Both Tunisia's ...
Photo of the Day: It Takes All Kinds
By Martha | January 23rd, 2008Some people cheer wildly, some wave flags, and others put on tighty-whities and paint themselves to support their team. Things didn't go very well for ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 23rd, 2008It's day four of the Africa Cup of Nations today, Group D is about to swing into action. There's the battle of the big boys ...
No, The Other Zidan
By Daryl | January 23rd, 2008The big story at the Africa Cup of Nations yesterday was a man of North African descent named Zidan. Not the one you might be ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 22nd, 2008After Cote d'Ivoire downed Nigeria in Group B yesterday, the Africa Cup of Nations enters its third day with two more big boys going at ...
Salomon Kalou Shows Us What He Can Do
By Daryl | January 22nd, 2008The Chelsea man blows hot and cold in the Premier League, but at the Africa Cup of Nations yesterday Salomon Kalou embarked on this slalomesque ...
Weekend Recap: The Giant Killers
By Laurie | January 21st, 2008Saturday's Games US 2 - 0 Sweden. US Soccer is still trying to convince FIFA that this is, in fact, the USMNT's 500th ...
Africa Cup of Nations at World Cup Blog
By Daryl | January 21st, 2008If you're following the Africa Cup of Nations (and if not, why not?) you may be interested in our game coverage over at World Cup ...
Sulley Muntari's Left Foot is Better Than Yours
By Daryl | January 21st, 2008Ghana came very close to disappointing the 40,000 home crowd at Accra yesterday in their opening 2008 Africa Cup of Nations opening game against Guinea. ...
Daily Dose 1.20.2008
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Things to read as you wonder if you're safe from your laptop. Remembering Garrincha. (Run of Play) Ian Wright is not down with foreign keepers playing for ...
Daily Dose 1.19.2008
By Martha | January 19th, 2008Things to read as you drink your presidential milkshake: "Let's have Harry Redknapp as a cockney Moses and Martin O'Neill as an Ulster Herod." (Guardian Unlimited) High ...
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