Egypt suspended its membership of the Union of North African Football Federations on Thursday, complaining that Algerian fans had thrown stones at their supporters during the country's World Cup exit. The Egyptian Football Federation wrote to its counterparts in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia charging that its fans had come under . Click to continue reading...

The former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o promised his fellow countrymen that he will buy each of his teammates a £30,000 watch should they qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Last weekend after their 2-0 win over Morocco, Eto'o made good on his promise and gifted the same watch to all of his teammates.

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Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud admits he has no idea if Marouane Chamakh will sign a new contract.
Chamakh's current deal expires at the end of the season and the Morocco international has been offered terms to stay with the French club.
Arsenal, Sunderland and West Ham have all shown an interest in the 25-year-old in the past, while Manchester United have recently been linked with a bid. Click to continue reading...

Another fan forgets that these goals don't count Previous pitch invader goals have included a sweetly struck penalty and a nice team move. This looked more like a Gaelic football goal than anything. Also, if OTP was partaking in such tomfoolery we don't think our venue of choice would be in Morocco. Click to continue reading...

New Zealand and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup yesterday, but other countries also either made sure they are going to be in South Africa, or took steps to it.In Africa Cameroon finally qualified with a 2-0 away victory over Morocco, and are now the African nation that has participated in most World Cups. Click to continue reading...

It was an important day in all the regions as the final spots for the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa are being deteremined. In UEFA there are eight teams competing for four spots in two legged ties. The first leg was on Saturday with the second coming on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. There are two playoff matches between regions including the AFC/OFC Playoff and CONCACAF/CONMEBOL Playoff.

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If you read our African World Cup qualifying finale preview post yesterday, then you knew that Egypt vs Algeria was big. Historic bad feeling, exacerbated by Egyptian fans attacking the Algerian team bus in Cairo big. There was also the beautifully weighted qualification situation in Group C, where Egypt needed to beat Algeria by three goals or more to qualify for World Cup 2010 at Algeria's expense.

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Cameroon made it through to the South Africa 2010 thanks to goals from Mallorca striker Pierre Webo and Inter Milan goal machine Samuel Eto'o.

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0-1 Webo

0-2 Eto'o

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Here are all the results and final scores from the African ( CAF) World Cup 2010 third round Qualifying games played on Saturday, November 14, 2009. The marquee game of the evening is obviously Egypt vs Algeria, but we have a few other intriguing qualifiers too. Group A Morocco vs Cameroon ( Kickoff time 15. Click to continue reading...

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.

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Three more World Cup spots will be sealed on Saturday, and with the tournament held in the same continent, desperation will be at a maximum as African qualification finishes. Two spots are already held by the continent's two best teams, as Ghana and the Ivory Coast have both safely secured a place in the World Cup.

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There still 9 spots left for the World Cup. But one thing is for sure: 32 is not enough for the number of cool nations around. We are still months away from the World Cup, but here are nations that we already miss. And the reason we miss them? Some of them,at some point in some edition of the tournament, played nice football.

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23 nations are in the World Cup. That leaves 9 spots. And by November 18th, we will know who is going to have fun next summer and who only be playing friendlies. 19 nations are still alive. They are:

New Zealand, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Uruguay, France, Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Russia, Bosnia, Ireland, Ukraine, Cameroon, Gabon, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria and Egypt.

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His star may have dimmed at White Hart Lane but Adel Taarabt is in fine form this season. The attacking starlet has been outstanding for QPR this season and can't stop scoring for Morocco.

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Two of our three players involved in World Cup qualifiers yesterday were successful. Jonas helped Argentina to dramastic win Geremi claimed his 106th cap for a Cameroon side, who won 3-0 against Togo, and it was Geremi who scored Cameroon's first goal,he 11th goal for his country. Cameroon are at Morocco on Wednesday. Click to continue reading...

This home win for Gabon gives them a fighting chance of qualification as they look on and hope that Cameroon drop points against Morocco on Wednesday.

Gabon 3/1 Morocco
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The 2010 African Cup of Nations kicks off on January 10th. Earlier this week, we got our first look at the Puma kits that will be worn by Angola (home), Cameroon (home and away), Ivory Coast (home and away) and Morocco (home) during the tournament. Now, several more kits for Puma-sponsored African national teams have [. Click to continue reading...

Wenger decides to give up on January move.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he has no plans to revive his bid to sign Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh in January.

Chamakh was a target for Wenger in the summer, but the Gunners were unwilling to meet Bordeaux's asking price for the Morocco international.

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he has no plans to revive his bid to sign Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh in January.

Chamakh was a target for Wenger in the summer, but the Gunners were unwilling to meet Bordeaux's asking price for the Morocco international.

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he has no plans to revive his bid to sign Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh in January.

Chamakh was a target for Wenger in the summer, but the Gunners were unwilling to meet Bordeaux's asking price for the Morocco international.

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January move unlikely, free transfer in the summer a sure thing?

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Bordeaux have ruled out in-demand striker Marouane Chamakh leaving in January.

The French-born Morocco international was linked with Arsenal and West Ham in the summer, but a move failed to materialise.

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he may "reconsider" a move for Bordeaux striker Marouane Chamakh when the transfer window re-opens in January.
The Gunners were strongly linked with a £10million swoop for the Morocco international before the September 1 deadline.

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SI's Grant Wahl does an outstanding job of gaining some insight from US national team head coach Bob Bradley, and really outlines some important components in Bradley's philosophies-
• Playing hard games matters. "As players move from one level to another, they have to grow," Bradley says. Click to continue reading...

The African regions (CAF) is split into five Groups with the winner of each advancing to the FIFA 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa. The host country (South Africa) is already qualified and several other African nations are on the verge of earning qualification. On Wednesday, Sepember 9, 2009 there was only match, Cameroon v Gabon in Group Three.

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Good weekend for the USA, as none of Argentina/France/Portugal could win.
1) In Africa, this weekend's results mean that Cameroon and Tunisia should now be considered clear favorites to qualify. If Gabon can't beat Cameroon at home, then how they can hope to get a result on the road? Togo let in a last second equalizer against Morocco which probably ended their hopes. Click to continue reading...

Adel Taarabt is a player that displayed a great amount of talent in his first few cameo appearances for Spurs but has since found it hard to persuade Harry Redknapp of his worth, hence being loaned out to QPR. However this is a fantastic goal from a player who at 20 still has time on his side.

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Togolese international attacking midfielder Yao Junior Senaya is interesting PSM but the club from Makassar are sniffing at the price. Yao, who played for Togo against Morocco in a recent World Cup qualifier is thought to be looking for something along the lines of 100,000 USD a year.
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Former Porto and AZ Alkmaar winger Tarik Sektioui, aged 32 and capped 18-times by Morocco, has spurned the advances of European clubs to seal a lucrative transfer to UAE club Ajman.
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We're almost to the 2010 World Cup in Africa, as the continent is now half way through their last phase of Cup qualifying.
Where do we stand? Let's take a look at the standings for the five groups.
Remember, the five group winners go to the 2010 World Cup. The top three in each group advance to the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola. Click to continue reading...

Following last week's declaration by respected French journalist  Philippe Auclair that Arsenal are close to signing Morocco striker Maraoune Chamahk, another well respected journalist Gabriele Marcotti has made revelations about a potential Arsenal signing.

Talking on talkSPORT, Marcotti indicated that Fiorentina's Felipe Melo will sing for Arsenal once the Confederations Cup is over.

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Finals Scores
29 World Cup Matches That Took Place On June 19th In Years Gone By
1. Brazil 4 Sweden 2 (Third Place Play-Off, 1938)
2. Italy 4 Hungary 2 (Final, 1938)
3. Brazil 1 Yugoslavia 1 (a.e.t, First Round, 1954)
4. France 3 Mexico 2 (First Round, 1954)
5. Uruguay 7 Scotland 0 (First Round, 1954)
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The focus today is Francophone players.

France Football's Phillipe Auclair stated that Arsenal are close to signing Chamakh from Bordeaux. Auclair is a respected journalist and knows quite a bit about Arsene's France based dealings. If Phillipe Auclair claims Arsenal are close to signing Marouane Chamakh, then that is more credible than a lot of the UK newspaper back pages.

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We've been working on ColoradoSoccerNow.com for three solid months, and we've built up a pretty good following so far.

On Monday, we added readers in three countries: Finland, Turkey and the Dominican Republic.

So for this week's edition of The Tuesday List, we present a roll call of all of the nations to have visited our Web site in this short period:

United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Ireland
France
Germany
Slovenia
Czech Republic
Pakistan
Puerto Rico
Russia
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Switzerland
Japan
Argentina
Mexico
Israel
Greece
China
Costa Rica
Denmark
India
Iceland
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The season lets out and internationals start up, and our players turn their attention to their national teams as they play qualifiers for the World Cup in 2010.
Alexander Hleb participated with Belarus against Andorra yesterday, his team won 5-1. Alex captained the team and played the full match. Click to continue reading...

Africa's road to the 2010 World Cup heats up this weekend with a full slate of action as countries compete for the 5 available spots in South Africa.
There are already some teams in trouble.
Like Cameroon and Morocco, who have collectively qualified for nine previous World Cup finals. Click to continue reading...