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

FIFA - Ghanaian judge to head Fifa's Disciplinary Committee

Ghanaian Anin Yeboah, a supreme court justice, has been elected as chairman of Fifa's Disciplinary Committee.

He was voted in for a four-year term at Thursday's congress of football's world governing body in Bahrain.

Yeboah was a member of Fifa's Ethics Committee last year.

He was one of several Africans voted onto committees at the congress, including Rwanda's Martin Ngoga as deputy chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee.


Africans elected on to Fifa committees at 67th Congress:

+++ Disciplinary Committee +++ 

Chairman: 
Justice Anin Yeboah (Ghana) - Supreme Court Justice

Members: 
• Maclean Letshwiti (Botswana)
• Guy Akpovi (Togo)
• Mahmoud Hammami (Tunisia)

 

+++ Appeal Committee +++

Members: 
• Jean-Louis Atangana Amougou (Cameroon)
• Alberto Simango (Mozambique)

 

+++ Ethics Committee - investigatory chamber +++
Deputy chairman: Martin Ngoga (Rwanda) - Former Prosecutor General

Members: 
• Janet Katisya (Kenya)

 

+++ Ethics Committee - adjudicatory chamber +++

Members: 
• Justice Ayotunde Phillips (Nigeria)

 

+++ Audit and Compliance Committee +++

Members: 
• Andrew Kamanga (Zambia)

 

 

 

12 May 2017
(BBC Sport UK)

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