The groups for the Africa Cup of Nations 2010 were drawn today, which should go at least some
way to cheering up teams like Egypt and Tunisia who very narrowly missed the World Cup 2010
boat.
The tournament takes place in Angola from January 10th to January 31st, 2010. We've got blogs
and bloggers for 12 of the 16 teams involved in the tournament.
Se sortearon hoy los grupos de la XXVII Copa Africana de Naciones que se disputará entre el 10 y
el 31 de enero en Angola. Esta es la primera vez que un país de lengua portuguesa organiza el
máximo campeonato de África. Angola nunca conquistó el trofeo.Dieciseis naciones participarán
en la fase final, que se desarrollará en cuatro ciudades: Luanda, la capital, Cabinda, Lubango y
Benguela. Click to continue reading...
Qualification is officially over. Playoffs won, tears shed, hearts broken and dreams renewed,
it's all over. After Uruguay withstood the Costa Rican pressure late in the evening, the final 32
teams were written into stone though not without a fair bit of controversy.
The following are those 32 teams who will take part in South Africa 2010.
The 2010 World Cup Qualification process has finished and all of the 32 teams have been
determined. There aren't too many surprises as many of the favorites such as Brazil, Spain, Italy,
and England will all be there. Some nations such as France and Argentina struggled to advance but
in the end will be there in South Africa.
With Uruguay seeing off Costa Rica, the field for World Cup 2010 has been completed.Africa -
Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South AfricaAsia - Australia, Japan, North Korea,
South KoreaEurope - Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal,
Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, SwitzerlandNorth America - Honduras, Mexico, United
StatesOceania - New Click to continue reading...
Estos son los 32 países clasificados a la XIX Copa Mundial de la FIFA, Sudáfrica 2010: Por la UEFA: Alemania, Dinamarca, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, España, Francia, Grecia, Holanda,
Inglaterra, Italia, Portugal, Serbia y Suiza. Por la Conmebol: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay. Click to continue reading...
If it was drama you wanted, African World Cup qualifying was the place to be this weekend. Nigeria
and Cameroon became the latest teams through to the finals - joining Ghana, Ivory Coast and hosts
South Africa - but in very different circumstances. The scene in Cairo. Wednesday's match will be in "nuetral" Sudan. Click to continue reading...
This weekend was the World Cup qualifying climax in Africa, and there was plenty of
qualification drama to go around. The winners of each of the five groups qualified for World Cup
2010, and everyone else missed out. But there was a pretty decent consolation prize for the ten
second and third placed teams, as World Cup qualifying doubles as Africa Cup of Nations qualifying
and the top three in each group qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations (also known as the
African Nations Cup, ACN and CAN) in Angola.
Angola e Congo empataram este sábado, no Estádio da Cidadela, a um golo, no desafio particular
inserido na preparação dos Palancas Negras rumo ao Campeonato Africano das Nações (CAN). Com cruzamento de Gilberto, Flávio Amado inaugurou o marcador no amistoso, na preparação do
Campeonato Africano das Nações, a disputar-se no país em Janeiro de 2010. Click to continue reading...
Cameroon and Nigeria have guaranteed a spot in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa today.
Cameroon beat Morroco 2-0 (second goal by Eto'o) and Nigeria beat Kenya 3 2.
So far 26 countries are going to South Africa next June: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile,
Mexico, USA, Honduras, Netherlands, Spain, England, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Italy, Slovakia,
Switzerland, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Australian, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon,
New Zealand and South Africa.
It's the World Cup 2010 qualification finale in Africa this weekend, with three spots at the big
show still up for grabs. South Africa are qualified as hosts. Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire join them
having already won Groups D and E respectively.
That leaves three groups undecided with just one round of games to go, and those games are this
weekend.
After Ibra's knock to the leg which led to a penalty and subsequent goal for us a couple days ago
against Mallorca, medics have announced that he's experiencing some setbacks in the muscle and will
be sidelined for around a week. That means he won't make tomorrow's Copa Del Rey match against
Cultural Leonesa; adding another name to the list of absentees as several of our boys will be off
on international duty. Click to continue reading...
For a long while there, Stephen Appiah was an international footballer only. The midfielder has
not played a kick of club soccer since late 2007, but still managed to captain Ghana through a
successful World Cup 2010 qualification campaign. Which is ridiculously impressive when you think
about it.
Oh, and the Becks to AC Milan deal is done, say the Italian club.
BTW, the U.S. Under-17 Men's National Team predictably lost 2-1 to a technically (and
creatively) superior Spain Monday in Ghana at the World Cup for that age category.
San Pedro's Carlos Martinez was an unused sub; Fontana's Victor Chavez played the second
half.
Hey guys, I'm back from the dead. Due to commitments with school I haven't had time to update.
However, I'll be hard at work with a new format to the posts. That includes translating and posting
articles from Globoesporte, Futebol Uol Esporte, and of course the club's official website. I think
this would be the best way to keep others up to date on the workings of the club. Click to continue reading...
' Me and my friends want to make history, we want to change the way people see Africa'. These
are the words of influential Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba. I guess by now there is no need in
saying the world cup is coming to Africa. However, i am still going to say it. The world cup is
coming home!
After their irmãos lost to Ghana in the painful U-20 World Cup final last week, Lucho Nizzo's
kids are raring to go and win the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria, which kicks off tomorrow! We could
probably call them fetos (fetuses) for now, but Coutinho
doesn't look like one, so we'd best find another name.
Potencias en la categoría, los africanos nunca se habían consagrado campeones mundiales Sub 20.
Lo consiguió Ghana, en el 17º Campeonato Mundial Juvenil de la FIFA, disputado en Egipto. Sin la
presencia de Argentina, último campeón, 24 selecciones Sub 20 disputaron 52 partidos en siete
estadios de cinco ciudades. Click to continue reading...
The new Ghana home football shirt that they will wear throughout the 2010 World Cup finals in South
Africa has now been released. Ghana, nicknamed the Black Stars, first appeared at the World Cup in
2006 failing to qualify in previous years but have now qualified for two tournaments in ... Click to continue reading...
The new 2010-11 Ghana away football shirt that they will wear throughout the 2010 World Cup finals
in South Africa has now been released. Ghana, nicknamed the Black Stars, had failed to qualify for
the World Cup prior to the 2006 tournament in Germany but have now qualified for two ... Click to continue reading...
Al dia de hoy ya se tiene programado el sorteo que definirán los grupos para el mundial de futbol
de Sudáfrica 2010 y este será el 4 de Diciembre, alli se definirán los 8 grupos con 4 miembros
cada uno. Posteriormente se dará a conocer el Calendario que oportunamente aqui estaremos
publicando. Hasta el momento hay 23 países que tendrán una bola asegurada en el sorteo de los grupos del
mundial. Click to continue reading...
If you didn't rearrange your life in order to watch the U20 World Cup final yesterday between Ghana
and Brazil, you won't get a lot of fansnobbery smack from me. We can certainly stipulate that, what with the sudden - and delightful - deluge of tasty
soccerfootball events we've been favored with since last June 1st, if one or two of them can be
allowed to fall by the wayside without putting your reputation as a True Afficionado de Footy, this
would probably be one of them. Click to continue reading...
Yesterday's U20 final, Brazil vs. Ghana. So much potential for excitement. Ghana's Black
Satellites (the baby version of the Black Stars) came into the final having scored 16 goals in the
tournament. Brazil stood at 14. Surely a goal-fest was in order.
But no.
The game-changing moment happens at about the 1:10 mark in the video, when Ghana's
Daniel Addo is sent off in the 37th.
Congratulations to Ghana for getting to spot kicks after going down a man late in the first half
and rallying there to defeat Brazil for the 2009 FIFA Under-20 World Cup title.I have to admit,
Black Satellites, you fooled me. I didn't think you could lock it down, I thought you'd resort to a
toe-to-toe slugfest. Click to continue reading...
Estas fotos quebrar nossos corações! In the end, Ghana got their revenge from the
1993 loss... and defeated our meninos in the finals of the U-20 World Cup last night. Even
with one man down, the selecao's multiple shots at goal couldn't a seal a win in extra
time.
Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu of Ghana will get his name written into the history books.He scored the
winning penalty that gave a ten man Ghana team a 4 -3 win over favourites Brazil in the FIFA under
20 world cup.
(video di Ghana-Brasile, i rigori) La prima volta del Ghana, ma soprattutto la prima volta dell'Africa. Il continente nero,
dopo quattro finali perse, sale finalmente sul tetto del mondo, nel campionato Under 20 di
calcio. A trionfare, contro il Brasile, è un Ghana decisamente "europeo", molto solido,
preciso, tatticamente intelligente. Click to continue reading...
I lived in Ghana for many years, and it is with happy nostalgia that I have seen that the Ghana U20
team has won the 2009 U20 World in Egypt, by defeating Brazil in the final, 4-3 after penalty
kicks! This is the first time ever an African team wins this tournament, and breaks eight years of
South American dominance in the tournament, although Ghana was also in the final in 1993, losing to
Brazil Click to continue reading...
Ha concluido el Mundial Sub-20, donde Ghana se corona por primera vez y cobra
venganza de la final perdida ante Brasil en 1993. Por otro lado, Hungría de último
momento le arrebató el tercer puesto a Costa Rica.
Hungría 1-1 Costa Rica (2-0 en penales)
Partido un poco deslucido por el calor y por la poca trascendencia que tenía el resultado.
Ghana brought the first ever U20 World Title to an African country today, by beating Brazil on
penalties (4 to 3) after a 0-0 match. The match was tense and Brazil was superior, but we all know
that in football a goal is all that counts. And penalties are penalties. But Ghana deserves
it..
Ghana have become the first ever African side to win the Under-20 World Cup after beating Brazil
4-3 on penalties. A 0-0 scoreline after 120 minutes did no justice to the excitement of a
dramatic... Click to continue reading...
