STARS IN EUROPE - ENGLAND - SUNDERLAND - Black Cats flourishing in Africa

If ambition had a league table, English Premier League club Sunderland would top it.

28 Mar 2015
NATIONAL TEAMS - FRIENDLIES - Algeria lose in Qatar, as Ivory Coast celebrate

Algeria lost their first game since exiting the Africa Cup of Nations in the quarter-finals, losing 1:0 to Qatar in a friendly.

27 Mar 2015
NATIONAL TEAM - NIGERIA - COACH - NFF offer former coach Stephen Keshi two-year deal

Stephen Keshi will return to take charge of Nigeria following lengthy contractual talks.

26 Mar 2015
NATIONAL TEAM - SENEGAL - Coach Aliou Cisse recall "experienced" Demba Ba for Ghana friendly

Besiktas striker Demba Ba has been recalled to the Senegal squad by new Teranga Lions coach Aliou Cisse.

24 Mar 2015
U-20 AFRICAN CUP 2015 - Nigeria win record seventh title

Nigeria won a record seventh African Under-20 Championship title.

24 Mar 2015
NATIONAL TEAM - RWANDA - COACH - Johnny McKinstry named new coach

Northern Irishman Johnny McKinstry has been named as the new coach of the Rwanda national football team.

23 Mar 2015
AFRICAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2015 - MOROCCO - Tetouan's Mouhcine Iajour hits a hat-trick against Pillars

Mouhcine Iajour scored a 22-minute hat-trick as Moroccans Moghreb Tetouan beat Nigeria's Kano Pillars 4:0

22 Mar 2015

COSAFA CUP 2015 - FINAL - Namibia is the new champion

COSAFA CUP 2015
Final

 

Namibia vs Mozambique 2:0

Namibia won the Cosafa Cup for for the first time in their history, beating Mozambique 2:0 in the final in the South African mining village of Moruleng.

Winger Deon Hotto scored both of Namibia's goals to steer his nation to victory in the southern African championship.

Both countries went into the match as past runners-up, with Namibia reaching the final in 1997 and 1999 and Mozambique in 2008.

 

 

COSAFA CUP 2015
Third Place

 

Madagascar vs Botswana 2:1

Earlier in the day, Madagascar won the third place play-off match.

They beat fellow beaten semi-finalists Botswana 2:1 to take the bronze medal.

Sarivahy Vombola scored both of Madagascar's goals and finished as the 2015 tournament's top scorer with five goals to his name.

 

 

 

31 May 2015
(BBC Sport UK)

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