Africa - Most popular for December 2010
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Some highlights from the 'Champions for Africa' charity match organised by
UNICEF.
Two teams, a Primera Division select led by Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos and an African all-stars
team headed by Sevilla striker Frederic Kanoute played at the Vicente Calderon in Madrid with the
proceeds assisting education programmes for Schools for Africa and Kanoute's City of Children in
Mali Foundation.
Here are some well-respected measures of political, press, and economic freedom of the recent
and scheduled World Cup hosts, as well as the other competitors for 2018 and 2022. The measures I'm
using are the Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders, Freedom in the World by Freedom
House, the Democracy Index from the Economist, and the Index of Economic Freedom by the Heritage
Foundation.
Admit it: you know nothing about TP Mazembe. Naming one of their players without the aid of
Wikipedia would be a minor miracle for most hardcore football fans.
Well they shocked, stunned and stupefied the world today in that quasi-competition known as the
Club World Cup by downing an Inter the South American one in order to make it to the final
presumably against the European one becoming the first African club to do so and leaving the world
mourning the loss of those Inter v Inter headlines.
TP Mazembe Englebert 2-0 Internacional (Mulota Kabangu, Alain Kaluyituka) TP Mazembe Englebert
became the first African team to reach the finals of the Club World Cup when they upset South
American champions Internacional 2-0 on Saturday. Mazembe will face the winners of the other
semifinal between Inter Milan and Seongnam in the final.
El Gobierno de Guinea Ecuatorial, país que en 2012 será sede junto a Gabón de la Copa Africana
de Naciones, invertirá 124 millones de francos CFA (unos 235 mil dólares) para organizar su Liga
Nacional de Fútbol.
La información la ofreció el Secretario de Estado de Deportes, Ruslan Obiang Nsue, durante una
reunión con los directivos de los equipos de fútbol éstos recibirán directamente las ayudas
económicas procedentes de este fondo para organizarse.
PUMA and the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) announced on December 1 in Yaounde, Cameroon,
a long-term extension of its current partnership
Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto'o headline the shortlist of five players up for this year's African
Player of the Year award. The award comes at an exciting time for the continent following this
summer's vibrant World Cup in South Africa, and Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan also makes the
shortlist as he represented his nation, Ghana, proudly.
Bharti airtel, a leading global telecommunications company today announced an exclusive partnership
with Manchester United and signed a four-year partnership agreement. The partnership is a first of
its kind signed between Bharti airtel and Manchester United in the African continent.
SPANISH FOOTBALL SPORTS BLOG has surpassed the 1.500.000 unique visitors. The readership stats
show that it is popular in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Africa & bigger
than big in Asia: THANK YOU!!! I would never have imagined this "hobby" would get so far. There are
people who dislike the blog - naturally, would not expect anything else - but the majority show
their
After having the long list leaked and the short list announced, the final list of nominees for
CAF's 2010 African Footballer of the Year have finally been announced.
And the nominations for Africa's 2010 Footballer of the Year go to...
Didier Drogba (Côte D'Ivoire/Chelsea)
Asamoah Gyan (Ghana/Sunderland)
Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon/Inter)
If you read my earlier post on the nominations, you probably aren't surprised by the names
appearing on the final list.
Mazembe goalkeeper Muteba Kidiaba has a funny way of celebrating his side's victories. He did his
trademark bum bouncing/ duck celebration in his side's quarterfinal win over Pachuca and did it
again in the semifinal win over South American side Internacional. Video- Muteba Kidiaba
(Goalkeeper) Duck Celebration for TP Mazembe.
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Will Rafael Benitez be gone by tomorrow? (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
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Fox Soccer Channel has elected to show the Club World Cup as Liverpool-Fulham is snowed under,
so get thee to a television set to see if Africa can make history!
TP Mazembe 0-3 Inter Milan ( Goran Pandev, Samuel Eto'o, Jonathan Biabany) Final of 2010 Club World
Cup in Dubai- December 18, 2010. TP Mazembe were unable to repeat their giantkilling act in the
final of the 2010 Club World Cup as they went down 0-3 to Inter Milan in the finals. Early goals
from [..
Since this is his historic fourth win, they allowed him to accept the awards in sneakers and a
long sleeved polo.
Suits and tuxes? Those are for mere three-time winners. You know the hoi polloi.
Next year for number five: undershirt, bathing trunks and espadrilles.
The players of TP Mazembe trudged off at the end of the World Club Cup Final as losers to
Internationale of Italy. However, despite failing at the final hurdle they knew their place in
African football history was secure. Two wins, one against Mexicans Pachuha and another against
Brazilian giants Independiente catapulted the Congolese side from the relative obscurity of African
club competition into the hearts and minds of football fans the world over.
TSG will be publishing on an abbreviated scheduled through the end of the year as Little Miss
Shinguardian visits family in NorCal and elsewhere.
Merry [insert holiday that you celebrate].
A moment to share our very favorite gift (besides the little one this
morning).
TSG will be publishing on an abbreviated scheduled through the end of the year as Little Miss
Shinguardian visits family in NorCal and elsewhere.
Merry [insert holiday that you celebrate].
A moment to share our very favorite gift (besides the little one this
morning).
Anderlecht "scores a goal", doesn't touch the ball in the opposition's half. Don't get that
every day.
[101gg]
- FCKing dominant. (The Ball Is Round)
- Mario Balotelli is progressive. (The DA)
- African internationals. (IBWM)
- Roman keeps good manager, hires terrible band.
