Kaizer Chiefs could make a late charge for the Premiership with reports emerging from Tanzania that the Phefeni side has bagged the services of hot-shot striker Emmanuel Okwi for a reported fee of R1.5-m. Lying sixth on the table with nine points behind leaders Bidvest Wits, Chiefs appears to have reached an agreement with Okwi’s team...
It does not seem to rain but its pouring for the beleaguered President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Ahmad Ahmad as pressure mounts on him to reconsider his stance after stripping Cameroon of its right to host the 2019 African Cup of Nations. Although Ahmad announced that the CAF executive took a decision to...
Southern African clubs did not really cover themselves in glory during the second round, first leg of the CAF African Champions League this weekend, with Lesotho side Bantu getting hammered 4-1 by AS Vita in Kinshasa. Mamelodi Sundowns entered the lion’s den against Al Ahly Benghazi in Cairo but came out holding their heads high after...
Former Mhangura player Felton Kamambo was elected the new Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president on Sunday after beating the incumbent Philip Chiyangwa during the local football mother body’s elective annual general meeting in Harare. Kamambo, an underdog heading into the polls, amassed 35 votes against Chiyangwa’s 24 which, according to the constitution, would not have been...
Another African club faces possible sanctions from the world controlling body for the violation of a player’s contract as FIFA comes down hard on errant clubs abusing football players. Botswana Premier League club Black Forrest could find themselves in hot waters after FIFA ordered them to pay their former player Tonderai Nyakuba outstanding monies owed to...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is on Saturday expected to announce a shortlist of countries that had submitted their bids to host the 2019 African Cup of Nations tournament. The tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Cameroon. But lack of progress and the slow pace of readiness and security fears security resulted in...
The newly elected Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad promised a new dawn when he ascended the throne in March 2017 but within a year, has fractured the organization which is divided right down the middle. And nothing shows the factions within CAF more than the decision to strip Cameroon of the right to...
Their heroics as they humiliated South African Premier side Platinum Stars 4-2 in the CAF Confederation Cup two years ago was the stuff of legends. Then Mbabane Swallows were the talk of town and their names were sung in every corner across the eSwatini mountain kingdom. But two years can be a very long time in...
Mamelodi Sundowns have done their homework on the aptly named Equatorial Guinean champions – Liones Vegetarianos – who host them in the preliminary tie of the African Champions League in Malabo on Wednesday. Newly appointed Black Leopards coach, a former Arcadia Shepherds left wingback Dylan Kerr, revealed that he received a call from Sundowns coach Pitso...
Township Rollers embark on a new chapter in their lives without Nikola Kavazovic who resigned a couple of weeks ago to take up the post of Kenyan side AFC Leopards after guiding the Gaborone giants to the group stages of the last African Champions League edition. Rollers, now under the guidance of interim coach Thabo Matang,...
