happy new year 2016

bonne année 2016 - feliz año nuevo - furaha ya mwaka mpya 2016

31 Dec 2015
NATIONAL TEAM - Burkina Faso - Coach - Duarte returns to coach Burkina Faso

Portuguese coach Paulo Duarte returns for a second spell.

30 Dec 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - CONGO DR - CLUB - Yannick Bolasie face spell out

Crystal Palace could be without winger Yannick Bolasie.

29 Dec 2015
STARS IN MLS - IVORY COAST - CLUB - Didier Drogba

Chelsea hold talks with Montreal Impact over striker Didier Drogba.

27 Dec 2015
STARS IN AFRICA - NIGERIA - Under-17 star Osimhen in no rush to decide future

Victor Osimhen, top scorer at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup.

26 Dec 2015
STARS IN EUROPE - ALGERIA - CLUB - Mahrez can improve at Leicester

Algeria international Riyad Mahre​z has attracted interest.

25 Dec 2015
merry christmas - joyeux Noël

feliz natal - feliz navidad - merry christmas - joyeux Noël -

24 Dec 2015
NATIONAL TEAM - BURKINA FASO - COACH - Rohr quits Burkina Faso

Rohr quits Burkina Faso to return to Germany.

23 Dec 2015
FIFA - Blatter and Platini get eight-year bans

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been suspended.

22 Dec 2015
NATIONAL TEAMS - ZIMBABWE - COACH - Pasuwa fired

Zimbabwe call time on coach Pasuwa.

21 Dec 2015

NATIONAL TEAM - LIBERIA - NEW COACH DEBBAH PROMISES DISCIPLINE

AFRICA CUP 2015 PRELIMINARIES

The former international, who signed a three-year contract on Friday, has promised a no-nonsense approach.

"We intend to use a more professional approach to instil discipline in the team and everybody will have to follow my instructions," he told BBC Sport.

"In other words, it's going to be my way or no way at all."

Liberia's all-time leading goalscorer replaces caretaker coach Thomas Kojo, who was unable to lead Lone Star past the preliminary rounds of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

"There will be no free meals under my watch, so every player has got to earn their red, white and blue shirt," Debbah added.

"My main goal is to recruit and develop local talents from the annual county sports meetings and the domestic league.

"But as you know we can only do that when the country has been declared Ebola free.

"In the interim, we will be put together strategies and action plans for how we intend to go about this national assignment when the 'green light' has been given by health authorities and the FA for us to start work."

Liberia suspended all football activities in August in order to help prevent the potential spread of Ebola through bodily contact on the pitch and the gathering of large crowds at football matches.

Debbah has a wealth of playing experience having spent time in France for Monaco, Lyon, Nice and PSG as well as in Belgium with Anderlecht before retiring in 2004 with Al-Jazira in Abu Dhabi.

However, his only coaching role so far is with his Liberian club Mighty Barrolle.

Meanwhile, his former team-mate Christopher Wreh, who played for English club Arsenal, has been appointed to take charge of the Under-20 team.

Wreh hopes to raise the profile of Liberian football by producing quality players to feature for the national side.

Liberia have never reached the World Cup finals and only ever been to two Nations Cup tournaments in 1996 and 2002.

 

24 Nov 2014
(BBC Sport, Monrovia by Hassan Kiawu)

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