Tag - Gaston Sirino

CAF Champions League enters halfway stage

The CAF African Champions’ League group stage reaches the halfway mark this weekend with some mouth-watering encounters scheduled across the continent. Group A leaders Wydad Casablanca whose unsporting behavior was widely reported following their 2-1 loss to Mamelodi Sundowns a week ago, travel to the astro turfed Mnandi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu to face Lobi Stars. This...

Sundowns obtain intel about Vegetarianos

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...

Sundowns and Pirates in thrilling stalemate

For the first time in almost six years, a match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates ended in a scoreless stalemate but it was a brilliant game that was almost spoiled by the pitch invasion by a lone fan at the Loftus Stadium in Tshwane on Saturday. Pirates remained at the top of the table with...

Shakira said it – hips, just like stats, don’t lie

Hips don’t lie, and if you do not believe that statement, just ask Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, better known globally and in musical circles as “Shakira,” and she will tell you she is so sexy that she is every man’s fantasy. Now, just like Shakira’s contention about hips, statistics as well do not lie. On the eve...