BY KEITH IDEC NEW YORK – Ramla Ali out-boxed an undefeated fighter Saturday night to move closer toward a 122-pound title shot. The Somalian contender scored a unanimous points victory against Australia’s Avril Mathie in their 10-round IBF junior featherweight elimination … Continued
SAO PAULO—Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for … Continued
DOHA: Lionel Messi led Argentina to World Cup glory on Sunday, scoring twice against France in one of the all-time great finals with the South Americans holding their nerve to triumph in a penalty shootout. Messi finally crowned his record-breaking … Continued
Striker Youssef En-Nesyri scored the winning goal in the first half, leaping highest to beat goalkeeper Diogo Costa to the ball and heading in to spark pandemonium at Al Thumama Stadium. The north African side’s supporters populated most of the … Continued
By Blame Ekoue The company that holds the World Cup broadcasting rights for sub-Saharan Africa says it has suffered a series of cyber-attacks since the tournament began. Officials at New World TV, a relatively new pan-African audio-visual group in Togo, … Continued
Ivory Coast’s football legend Didier Drogba has denied claims of converting to Islam after he was pictured praying with a Muslim cleric. The cleric published the picture and reportedly announced that the former Chelsea striker had become a Muslim. But … Continued
By Andrew Mills DOHA, (Reuters) – Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in the centre of the capital Doha where visiting soccer fans will stay during the World Cup, workers who were … Continued
Somalia and South Sudan have qualified for the TotalEnergies U17 African Cup of Nations to be staged in Algeria in April 2023. Somalia’s Ocean Stars are the TotalEnergies U17 African Cup of Nations 2023 Algeria – CECAFA Zone Qualifiers champions after beating … Continued
By Aimee Lewis With six miles left, Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s race seemed to have been ruined after the Ethiopian was left sprawled on the road after stumbling over a speed bump. The incident caused her to lose time over her rivals and … Continued
The Confederation of African Football is to re-open bidding for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after stripping Guinea of the right to host the competition, with Morocco among the nations set to apply. Caf president Patrice Motsepe was in … Continued
British-Somali super-bantamweight Ramla Ali took little more than a minute on Saturday to win the first sanctioned female professional boxing bout held in Saudi Arabia. The 32-year-old stopped Crystal Garcia Nova after one minute and five seconds of the first … Continued
ERIKA MONTOYA Saudi Arabia will have their first women’s professional boxing match on the Usyk vs. Joshua bill.With only six professional fights under her belt, Somali boxer Ramla Ali will make history in Saudi Arabia alongside Dominican Crystal Garcia. The … Continued
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