Mbabane Swallows General Manager Sandile Zwane has appealed to clubs both in Swaziland and South Africa to respect their brand by refraining from illegally poaching their players and instead follow correct procedures if interested in their players. His plea come amid reports that core of the team that humiliated South African Platinum Stars during the 2017...
Let’s admit it, we are quite frankly, miles behind the rest of the world when it comes to development, technical ability, tactical discipline and awareness as well as physical prowess and if you still dream that Africa will win the World Cup in our lifetime, then dream on. I humbly accept and respect Edson Arantes do...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is working round the clock finalize the paperwork of a South African born player featuring for one of Europe’s top clubs in in time for the third and final qualifying round of the Niger 2019 U-20 tournament. Keith Groenewald is an exceptionally talented 18-year old defender on the books of...
I thought perhaps old age had caught up with me, that I had become senile and my eyesight had become blurry as I watch the pathetic fare dished out on a daily basis by so-called “international” coaches in the South African Premier League. Even former national coach Shakes Mashaba came short of calling some of the...
Al Ain became the first team to qualify for the FIFA World Club championship to be staged during December when they won the United Arab Emirates League championship with a game to spare. Zoran Mamic’s team which also has Ghanaian left footed attacker Asamoah Gyan, defeated Al Nasr 4-0 with Swedish international Marcus Berg grabbing a...
In a glittering career that spanned almost three decades, Joseph Antoine-Bell earned the respect of his peers across the globe as one of the finest shot-stoppers during his time largely due to his safe keeping and the agility to spin acrobatically into the air and bring off a save many considered almost impossible, in the...
Former Nigerian captain Joseph Yobo created his own legacy when he played every single minute of Everton’s league fixtures during the 2006/7 season Premier League in a career that has taken him to France, England and Turkey. The lanky defender ranks among an elite group of African players that have reached the milestone of 100...
By Thomas Kwenaite Mamelodi Sundowns is still far from learning who will be their adversaries at the FIFA World Club Championship that gets underway in Japan from December 8, but the Japanese have already sent an advance scouting party to spy on the African champions. Two Japanese agents arrived in South Africa a fortnight ago on a...
The SA senior national women team started life under a new mentor and despite showing glimpses of promise, generally gave the kind of display that might have been a nightmare to the acting head coach - Desiree Ellis. They created enough chances to have buried their opponents Zimbabwe under an avalanche of goals in the opening...
Japan’s Rio Olympic coach Makoto Teguramori urged his team to give him a selection headache with one, final captivating home performance against South Africa on Wednesday. Ahead of Friday’s announcement of Japan’s 18 for the Summer Games, Teguramori said Tuesday he expects to see a glimpse of what the under-23 Asian champions can do in Rio...
