Pitso Mosimane on Wednesday announced that he had left his position as coach of South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns. Mosimane leaves Sundowns after eight years in charge, having won five league titles and the CAF Champions League title in 2016 Mosimane issued an emotional statement “with a sense of pain and sadness” confirming his departure…
Kenya’s Olympic champion and marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge was named a Laureus Sport For Good ambassador on Wednesday, on what was the two-year anniversary of him breaking the marathon world record in Berlin. Laureus Sport for Good, founded under the patronage of the late Nelson Mandela 20 years ago, currently supports more than…
Mamelodi Sundowns claimed this season’s Absa Premiership title in dramatic fashion on the final day after defeating Black Leopards 3-0 while Kaizer Chiefs could only draw 1-1 against Baroka. Both sides had gone into the season’s final game locked on 56 points but Chiefs boasted a superior goal difference of +21 compared to Sundowns’ +18….
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir smashed the world record for the half marathon in women-only races on Saturday, completing a 21.1-kilometer course in Prague in one hour 05.34 minutes. The 26-year-old shattered the previous record of 1:06:11, set by Netsanet Gudeta of Ethiopia in the women-only event at the World Half Marathon Championships in 2018. The overall…
Zamalek missed the chance to strengthen its hold on second place after they could only draw 0-0 with bottom-placed Masr in their Egyptian Premier League match on Tuesday at the Cairo Military Academy Stadium in Cairo. The 12-time league winners, who fielded a weakened side, were second best against their lowly-placed opponents for much of…
Pyramids F.C. missed the chance to reclaim second place from Zamalek after they fought back from a two-goal deficit to draw 2-2 with El Gaish at the 30 June Stadium in Cairo on Sunday. El Gaish, who came into the game in 15th place, took a shock lead in the first minute of the game…
Liverpool won the Premier League after three decades of waiting. The Reds long-awaited victory was sealed when Chelsea beat Manchester City on Thursday evening. The 2019 / 2020 season is yet to end but the points gap between them and City is unassailable. Jurgen Klopp’s side thus had cause to celebrate through Thursday night, a…
Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez scored twice as last season’s Premier League champions Manchester City hammered Burnley 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Monday night. Mahrez doubled City’s lead in the 43rd minute, following Phil Foden’s opener, after he dribbled his way past Burnley’s Charlie Taylor and fired in a low strike with his right foot. Mahrez…
Players knelt in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and victims of the coronavirus were remembered as the Premier League made a somber return on Wednesday from a 100-day shutdown that deprived England of its national sport. When Manchester City scored the first goals the Premier League had seen in more than three months,…
June 2010 – June 2020 is exactly ten years when the first World Cup on African soil was hosted. The continent and South Africans remember it vividly. Ten years later, what remains of this historic world event? Ten years ago, Africa hosted the first World Cup on its soil. It was in 2010, in South…
