Somalia will play their first ever match in the final tournament of a continental competition at any age level on Saturday when they line up against the hosts in the opening game of the TotalEnergies U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Algeria 2023, at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Algiers. Head coach Nur Mohamed Amin...
Michael Fitzpatrick Running his first marathon, Abeje Ayana claimed the Paris title in a time of 2 hours, 7.15 minutes. Kenya’s Helah Kiprop won the women’s race. Ayana, just 20 years of age and running his first-ever marathon, left his Ethiopian countryman and pre-race favourite, Guye Adola, to run the closing five kilometres on his own....
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 match at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater. Judges Tom Carisone, Max De Luca and Kevin...
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 colon cancer since 2021. The medical center where he had been hospitalized for the last...
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 career by claiming football’s biggest prize with a performance that will go down in World...
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 venue and joyously celebrated their breakthrough moment for their continent on the global stage. Ronaldo...
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, confirmed it had also been attacked before the finals kicked off in Qatar on 20...
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 in a tweet on Monday evening, Drogba clarified that he was “just paying respect to...
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 evicted from their homes told Reuters. They said more than a dozen buildings had been...
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 South Sudan 3-1 in the finals of a lively match played at Abebe Bikila Stadium, Addis...