As Bafana Bafana intensified their preparations for the “All or Nothing” tie at Steyn City on Wednesday, their Saturday opponents also stepped up their training at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on Wednesday for Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying battle at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. The entire squad selected by coach Gernot Rohr...
The notorious high altitude in Johannesburg is playing havoc with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) as they have reversed an earlier decision to arrive in the country on Friday and will now touch down on Thursday. Initial plans were to arrive at the city that is 1700 above sea level only on Friday morning, then head...
The spotlight returns to the Cameroon 2019 African Nations Cup qualifiers this week with South Africa’s penultimate match against perennial nemesis Nigeria in Group E at the FNB Stadium on Saturday as the pick of the weekend fixtures. Granted, the Group B encounter between Morocco against hosts Cameroon at the Mohammed V Stadium in Casablanca is...
South African striker Lebo Mothiba shook off the cobwebs of Tuesday’s drab scoreless draw against Seychelles in the African Nations Cup qualifier to grab the winning goal for his side in the French League on Saturday. Adrien Thomassen opened the scoring for Strasbourg away to Monaco in the 17th minute and Mothiba, who came closest for...
The enfant terrible of South African football – Thulani “Cream” Serero - could be persuaded to return to the national team set-up if both the player and the South African Football Association (SAFA) smoke the peace pipe. Serero’s run-ins with authorities as well as with national team-coaches are well documented. And early this year, SAFA CEO...
South Africa’s AFCON winning goalkeeper Andre Arendse who is part of the Technical bench urged the team not to lose focus but to fully concentrate on the job at hand as Bafana Bafana prepare for another tie with Seychelles at Stade Linite in the Indian Ocean Island tomorrow. Following a 6-0 rout of the hapless Islanders,...
I’m sniffing and sneezing like crazy, feeling extremely hot but miserable under additional blankets the Government of my household has removed from where she had packed them at the beginning of September, just to cover me and make me feel warmer. But I’m not feeling any better or warmer; I’m just feeling hot and sweating. She...
Is it a sign of the times, that a team ranked a mere 10 places above bottom positioned Pakistan at 189 in the world, should send shivers down the spines of South Africa who are former African champions and have appeared in three FIFA World Cup finals? There was a sense of urgency during training this...
Either the Nigerian players are super confident of the outcome of their upcoming African Nations Cup qualifier against Libya or they have not learned the lessons of undermining their opponents when they shockingly went down 2-0 to Bafana Bafana in Uyo last year. The team was supposed to have assembled for camp on Sunday, ahead of...
The third round of the 2019 African nations Cup qualifiers get underway from Tuesday across the country but there is uncertainty and confusion around the Group F fixture between Ghana and Sierra Leone scheduled for the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi on Thursday. The Leone Stars were last week suspended by FIFA from all football activities...
