The CAF 2020 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations was on Wednesday thrown into disarray when the Mauritian government allegedly ordered their FUTSAL national team to withdraw from the ongoing tournament in Laayoune in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Mauritius had replaced South Africa who had withdrawn from the tournament in solidarity with the Sahrawi, who...
I still cannot, for the life of me, understand how the Confederation of African Football (CAF) allowed and reached an agreement or rather, accepted the decision that they would from henceforth, be managed and administered by FIFA because they are finding it increasingly difficult to run CAF after ousting grandpa Issa Hayatou. Firstly, did FIFA step...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) President Danny Jordaan is among a glittering list of guests invited to the second edition of the Aiteo Football Awards to be held at the Eko Hotel and Suites at the Victoria Island in Lagos on April 1. While April 1 is celebrated in South Africa as “April Fool’s Day,”...
In an extra ordinary turn of events in Windhoek over the weekend, the Namibian Football Association (NFA) executive committee fired their President Frans Mbidi for alleged gross mismanagement with immediate effect. The drastic action, according to the NFA Vice President Dr Naftali Ngalandi who has been installed as acting President, was necessitated by Mbidi’s failure to...
An impassioned plea by Isha Johansen to the world controlling body FIFA imploring them to lift the suspension on her country to enable Sierra Leone to honour their CAF AFCON 2019 fixture against Ghana in Kumasi this weekend appears to have failed. FIFA suspended Sierra Leone last week due to government interference in the running of football...
