FIFA rankings - Egypt makes big leap in latest rankings

Egypt have climbed up more places than any other African country in Fifa's latest world rankings for March.

14 Mar 2014
2014 World Cup - warm up - Ghana

Ghana Sports Minister Elvis Ankrah is confident the team will prepare in the right way for a successful World Cup.

12 Mar 2014
2014 World Cup - warm up - African sides ready

All five of Africa's World Cup finalists are in action this week as they continue their preparations for this summer's tournament in Brazil.
(Algeria; Cameroon; Ghana; Côte d'Ivoire; Nigeria)

5 Mar 2014
stars in Europe - Yaya Toure's incredible journey

He won the Champions League and two La Liga titles while with Barca. Toure also won league titles in Greece and England, and domestic cups in each country too. According to the people who know him best, Yaya Toure always had the ability and ambition he needed to make his journey from a barefooted boy footballer to one of the best players in the world. 

22 Feb 2014
stars in Europe - AC Milan set to sign Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien

Chelsea have agreed a deal with AC Milan to sell midfielder Michael Essien to the Italian side. Essien has flown in for talks and a medical with Clarence Seedorf's underachieving Serie A club.

25 Jan 2014
NATIONAL LEAGUE - TUNISIA - COACH - Ruud Krol appointed as new Esperance coach

The 64-year-old former Dutch World Cup captain joined the Tunisian side only a day after leading CS Sfaxien to glory in the Confederation Cup with a 3:2 aggregate win over TP Mazembe. Krol's departure ends a successful year at the club in which he also led the Tunisians to a first league title in eight years in May. "It was my decision to leave. 

20 Jan 2014

African Champions League 2014 - TP Mazembe sign Zimbabwe midfielder Ali Sadiki

The 27-year-old has been given a five-year contract after impressing TP Mazembe during a one-week trial from Platinum Stars of Zimbabwe.

Signing Sadiki is part of president Moise Katumbi's push to strengthen the club's Champions League challenge.

"Mazembe is a big team and we want all the best players across the continent to come here," he told BBC Sport. "If there are better players even in Europe, they are free to come here."

Mazembe are four-time winners of the Champions League are in the quarter-finals of this year's competition, grouped alongside compatriots AS Vita, Zamalek of Egypt and Sudanese giants Al-Hilal.

Sadiki was a member of the Zimbabwe team that this year reached the semi-final of the African Nations Championship.

Meanwhile, Zambia international midfielder Nathan Sinkala may not return to Mazembe following the end of his loan spell with French side Sochaux.

Katumbi revealed there "are a lot of offers" for the 23-year-old, who joined Sochaux in January and had stated his desire to remain with the club.

However, following Sochaux's relegation from Ligue 1 he may be looking elsewhere, with FC Basel of Switzerland and French side Evian believed to be interested in him. 

"It's up to him if he wants to stay in Europe or come back here," Katumbi said. "It will be good if he gets a permanent contract in Europe for Zambian football as well." 

Sinkala has since returned to Zambia to link up with the Chipolopolo who next Saturday play Japan in a friendly in the United States.

 

31 May 2014
(BBC Sport, Lusaka by Kennedy Gondwe)

Related countries

Related articles