Asa's Blog Posts Tagged 'Africa' (29)

Equatorial Guinea  popularly known as Nzalang Nacional (nation's light) are new Africa football queens. Hosts has lifted African Women Championships (AWC) title after defeating South Africa 4-0 in a final match of the 8th edition played on Sunday at Malabo Stadium.

Playing before The Republic President Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo who was the chief guest, Equatorial Guinea players started the match aggressively with…

The Confederation of African Football conducted the final draw for the eighth African Women Championship to run from 28th October to 11th November 2012 in Equatorial Guinea, at its Cairo Headquarters. CAF Secretary General, Hicham El Amrani led the draw process, which saw hosts and losing finalists from the 2010 edition, Equatorial Guinea drawn in-group A alongside South Africa, Senegal and DR Congo.

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Banyana Banyana’s Olympic preparations moved up a gear with a convincing 3-1 win over German Premier League ladies side Bayer 04 Leverkusen at the Sportschule in Hennef, near Cologne, Germany on Thursday, 12 July 2012.

The Sasol-sponsored South African Senior Women’s National Team will play their final preparation match when they face Great Britain in an international friendly fixture in Birmingham, England on Sunday, 15 July…

Banyana Banyana midfielder Kylie-Ann Louw has been honoured as the Southland Conference League Female Athlete of the Year for a third consecutive season. Louw now holds the record for being the first player in history to win the award for the third successive year.

To add to her achievements, Louw scooped up two more awards – Soccer’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Athlete Scholar of the Year for excelling on the field as well as in the classroom.

Louw…

African U-20 Women’s Championship 2nd Round 1st Leg Results 

South Africa 0 – 2 Ghana

South Africa’s U-20 Women’s team succumbed to a 2-0 home defeat to visiting Ghana side in the second round, first leg qualifier of the 2012 FIFA U-20 World Cup played at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton.

Basetsana lost to second half goals one each for Florence Dadson and…

Banyana Banyana national head coach Joseph Mkhonza has included three uncapped players in a 24-strong squad that will train at the Stellenbosch University Sports Performance Institute (SUSPI), Western Cape from Thursday, 12 April 2012.

The national camp is a continuation of the team’s preparations for their first appearance at the Olympics Games, to be held in London in July.

The Banyana Banyana…

Banyana Banyana’s reign of success has not only seen them book a place at the London Olympics in July this year, but also win the hearts and minds of football fans across the Rainbow Nation and the continent.

The Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana, who will join Cameroon as the African representatives at the Olympic Games, can certainly hold their heads high in being South Africa’s No 1 national sports team of 2011 with 13 wins and a…

Monday 23^rd January

ConCacaf Women’s Olympic Qualifying…

The All Africa Games women soccer favorites, Ghana,hit a brick wall when they played against a robust Cameroonian team at the Estadio Nacional in Maputo. With the Ghanaians looking more like the dominant side, they pressed for early goals with beautifully strung passes with pin point accuracy but their efforts failed to pay off as the resolute Cameroonian defense will not cave in under pressure.

The game became a ding-dong battle with both sides probing for…

Ghana will play Cameroon in the All Africa Games' women's final on Saturday in the Mozambican capital Maputo. On Wednesday; the Black Princesses beat Algeria 3-0 in their semi-final.

Elizabeth Cudjoe grabbed a brace while captain Mercy Myles also netted. Ghana are enjoying a fine tournament, having gone unbeaten in their four matches. Saturday’s final will be played at the…

Saturday September 10th

All Africa Games

GROUP A: Mozambique v Algeria (Maputo)

Finland - Naistenliiga

KMF 0 – 4 PK-35

HJK 7 – 1 TPS

Ilves 1 – 0 Nice Futis

United Pietarsaari 0 – 4 Honka

Åland United 6 – 2 Kokkola F10

Iceland - Úrvalsdeild

Afturelding 1 – 2 Thróttur…

Saturday September 10th

All Africa Games

GROUP A: Mozambique v Algeria (Maputo)

Finland - Naistenliiga

KMF 13: 00 PK-35

HJK 13: 00 TPS

Ilves 13: 00 Nice Futis

United Pietarsaari 14: 00 Honka

Åland United 15: 00 Kokkola F10

Iceland -…

Wednesday September 7th

All Africa Games

Group A (Maputo)

Mozambique 3 – 0 (WO) Guinea

Cameroon 3 – 0 Algeria

Goals From:

Christine Manie 5’ (Cameroon)

Iven Mihamle 45’ (Cameroon)

Ariane Beyene 85’ (Cameroon)

All Africa Games

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Mozambique athletics great Maria Mutola turns to football

Maria Mutola has put her glittering athletics career behind her and now at the age of 38 she is the captain of Mozambique women's football team at the All Africa Games 2011. She now…

Monday September 5th

All Africa Games

GROUP B:

Tanzania 1 – 3 Ghana

South Africa 4 – 1 Zimbabwe

Asian Olympic Qualifying Finals

South Korea 2 – 3 North Korea

Japan 1 – 0  Australia

Thailand 0 - 2 China

Pacific Games 2011

Group A:

American Samoa 0 – 4…

All Africa Games

Group A

Guinea 0 – 3 Algeria

Mozambique 0 – 1 Cameroon

Group B

Tanzania 1 – 3 Ghana

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Assistant coach of Ghana U-20 women’s team, Ben Fokuo has expressed uneasiness after being drawn together with ‘old foes’ South Africa for the 2011 All Africa Games.

The Black Princesses were drawn in Group B alongside South Africa, Zimbabwe and rising forces, Tanzania during the draw held on Tuesday in cairo, Egypt for the continental version of the Olympic Games.

Fokou has singled out the…

The Hosts Mozambique is in Group A, along with Cameroon, Guinea and Algeria. Group B teams are South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Ghana, South Africa will be hoping for a better result this time after losing to Zimbabwe in the final of the Cosafa tournament in Harare 1 –…