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The tournament (CHAN), inaugurated in 2009 when the finals were held in Cote d’Ivoire, is for African National Teams made up of players in their respective domestic leagues only. DR Congo Leopards made history by becoming the first team to win the African Nations Championship (CHAN) after beating Ghana 2-0 in March 2009 in Abidjan, [...]

I, sscouser, have just noticed that yesterday’s post was # 200. Not bad for a blog that is not even 2 years old. My first post was on October 7, 2008. Less than a year later I hit the 100 posts threshold. And it’s not like I don’t have anything else to do. [...]

ALL the 32 teams that will take part in the 2010 Fifa World Cup will set up base in the host country, dealing a blow to South Africa’s neighbours who were hoping to lure some of the teams.
Zimbabwe’s football authorities had been engaged in talks with a number of countries that qualified for the World [...]

On March 3, 2010 Malawi (local players) will play a friendly against Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe, as a warm-up for the CHAN 2011 first round matches against Mozambique.
CHAN 1st Round
Match 1: March 12 (Mozambique vs Malawi @ Kamuzu Stadium, Malawi)
Match 2: March 26/27/28, 2010 (Malawi vs Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique)
CHAN 2nd Round (If Malawi progress to 2nd [...]

On 19 February 2010 the Daily Times Newspaper reported that “The Flames may find themselves rubbing shoulders with Brazilian players such as Kaka and Robinho if a proposal by a Brazilian-based charitable organisation called Projecto Malawi to bring the team for a friendly match in April works out.”
Today the Daily Times Newspaper reported [...]

Above: Africa Cup of Nations 2012 Draw details
The winners of each of the 11 groups will qualify for the finals as well as the three best second placed teams. 11 + 3 = 14
Equatorial Guinea and Gabon qualify automatically as co-hosts. 14 + 2 = 16
During the Second round of the World Cup/Africa Cup of [...]

The draw for Africa Cup of Nations 2012 took place yesterday.
According to CAF, 51 teams 44 teams were seeded into four groups (pots)
Pot 1:
The teams were seeded based on their ranking at the 27th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, Angola 2010. In short, Pot 1 consisted of all the 8 teams that made [...]

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) today in Lubumbashi conducted the draw for the 28th edition of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in 2012.
From the draw, fifty one (51) forty-four (44) teams will take part in the qualifying series. The teams will be battling for the [...]

Lausanne, 18 February 2010 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed today the urgent request for provisional measures filed by the Football Federation of Togo (FTF) in the arbitration procedure opposing this federation to the African Football Confederation (CAF).
The FTF lodged an appeal at the CAS following the decision of the [...]