With the Champions League officially over, there are a plethora of games in the next two or three weeks leading up to the World Cup. Here is a closer look at the top 5 friendlies (excluding the US games which…
With the Champions League officially over, there are a plethora of games in the next two or three weeks leading up to the World Cup. Here is a closer look at the top 5 friendlies (excluding the US games which…
This is the start of something that I want to do on a weekly basis and generate a list of the week because lists are great at generating discussion. If you have any suggestions, leave me a comment or write…
I enjoyed my first time watching this tournament and with it finally over to take a look back and give some remarks on the tournament as a whole. The obvious sour points to this tournament was the Togo team shooting…
The semifinals are set after the second day of quarterfinals. Both games went into extra time and were fairly exciting. Egypt won 3-1 despite conceding the first goal after 26 minutes when Achille Emana scored directly from a corner kick.…
The quarterfinals are starting up and the tournament should start getting exciting. A lot of the established powers have disappointed while Egypt and Angola have been the most entertaining teams in the tournament. The one Cinderella story left in the…
The group phase is finally over. This group was all over the place during the matches and the first real excitement of the tournament. Gabon were unable to advance as Zambia got the 2-1 win to advance themselves to the…
The tournament field is beginning to take shape. Tunisia and Gabon played a pretty boring game that ended in a 0-0 draw. Gabon were the better team, but Tunisia did have some good chances. Cameroon fought back to get to…
The surprising results are rolling in as the tournament is continuing. Gabon defeated Cameroon 1-0. Tunisia came back to get a 1-1 tie with Zambia. These games were played with a bit more quality at the defensive end compared to…
The big news coming out of Africa today is the shooting of the bus that was carrying the Togo national team. The tournament will carry on, but it seems likely that the Togo national team will be withdrawing from the…
Sebastian Bassong was left out of the Cameroon national team for the Cup Of Nations. He had missed some of the qualifiers for the team, but he was still expected to be included. His exclusion will be welcomed by Tottenham…
