TRANSFER - IVORY COAST - Serge Aurier joins Paris St-Germain on loan from Toulouse

The 21-year-old right-back played in all of his country's matches at the World Cup in Brazil.

25 Jul 2014
Transfer - Senegal - midfielder Guirane N'Daw joins Metz

N'Daw, who has played 44 times for his country, started his career in France with Sochaux in 2002.

24 Jul 2014
COACHES - IVORY COAST - Renard among names on coach shortlist

The 45-year-old Renard ended his second spell as Zambia coach in October 2013 to take over at French club Sochaux for the second half of the Ligue 1 season. 

23 Jul 2014
Transfer - Algeria - Midfielder Yavine Brahimi signs for Porto

The 24-year-old French-born attacking midfielder has agreed an $8.7m (£5.1m) deal with a $67m (£40m) buy-out clause.

 

23 Jul 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - 2ND ROUND - first leg - all results

SATURDAY'S MATCHES
• Botswana vs Guinea-Bissau 2:0 
• Uganda vs Mauritania 2:0 
• Sierra Leone vs Seychelles 2:0 
SUNDAY'S MATCHES
• Lesotho vs Kenya 1:0 
• Tanzania vs Mozambique 2:2 
• Congo Brazzaville vs Rwanda 2:0 
• Benin vs Malawi 1:0 

21 Jul 2014
COACHES - ALGERIA - Christian Gourcuff named as Algeria's new national coach

Gourcuff was last coach of Lorient, leaving the job in May at the end of the Ligue 1 season. He has also coached at Le Mans and Stade Rennes and had a one-year spell in Saudi Arabia.

21 Jul 2014
2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - 2ND ROUND - FIXTURES & RESULTS - Saturday matches

2nd round - fixtures & results

SATURDAY (19th July 2014)
Botswana vs Guinea-Bissau 2:0 
Uganda vs Mauritania 2:0 
Sierra Leone vs Seychelles 2:0 

20 Jul 2014
Fifa ranking - Nigeria move up, Carpe Verde suffer big drop

The Super Eagles climbed three places in the Confederation of African Football region and 10 spots on the global list - up to 34th in the world.

19 Jul 2014
TRANSFER - Algeria - Halliche joins Qatar Sports Club

The 27-year-old centre-back was part of the Desert Foxes squad that reached the last 16 of the World Cup in Brazil - their best performance at a finals.

19 Jul 2014

2015 AFRICA CUP QUALIFIERS - GROUP STAGE - IVORY COAST - 1ST MATCHES - PREVIEW

AFRICA CUP 2015 QUALIFIERS

Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia has been coaxed out of international retirement by coach Herve Renard and named in the squad for September's Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

The 26-year-old had called time on his career with the Elephants after he was overlooked for the 2014 World Cup squad under previous coach Sabri Lamouchi.

Renard has named a 26-man group for the Sierra Leone and Cameroon matches.

It is the Frenchman's first selection since his appointment on 31 July.

Ivory Coast are scheduled to take on on Sierra Leone in Abidjan on 6 September and travel to face Cameroon four days later.

 

SQUAD:

 

GOALKEEPERS 

Gbohouo Sylvain 
(Sewe San Pedro)

Copa Barry 
(Lokeren - Belgium)

Sayouba Mande 
(Stabaek - Norway )

 

DEFENDERS

Serge Aurier 
(PSG - France)

Bamba Souleyman 
(Trabzonspor - Turkey)

Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro 
(Toulouse- France)

Constant Djakpa 
(Frankfurt - Germany)

Ouattara Ousmane 
(Sewe San Pedro)

Dja Djedje 
(Marseille - France)

Franck Kessie 
(Stella Abidjan)

Benjamin Angoua 
(Guingamp - France)

Lamine Kone 
(Lorient - France)

Arthur Boka 
(Malaga - Spain)

 

MIDFIELDERS:

Bolly Mathis 
(Fortuna Dusseldorf - Germany)

Cheick Tiote 
(Newcastle - England)

Roger Assale 
(Sewe San Pedro)

Yaya Toure 
(Manchester City - England)

Max-Alain Gradel 
(St Etienne - France )

Ismael Diomande 
(St Etienne - France)

Serey Die 
(Basel - Switzerland)

Eric Tie Bi 
(Asteras Tripolis - Greece)

 

FORWARDS

Seydou Doumbia 
(CSKA Moscow - Russia)

Gadji Tallo 
(Bastia - France)

Gervinho 
(Roma - Italy)

Wilfried Bony 
(Swansea - England )

Salomon Kalou 
(Lille - France)

 

 

29 Aug 2014
(BBC Sport UK)

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