Goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi blocked Comfort Yeboah’s attempt and host Morocco advanced to the championship of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw with Ghana on ...

South Africa might seem to be a long distance for football fans, perched as it is on the southern tip of Africa (which explains the name of the country), but the very first World Cup was held in ...

South Africa’s World Cup was a four-week people’s festival — which saw the normally insular car-addicted middle classes abandoning their vehicles, walking, taking buses and trains ...

By 2019, having been left out of the World Cup twice because of boycotts, they were unwavering in their mission to show well. For 24 years, the country had waited for at least a try in the finals ...

The rain lashed down on the Kensington Oval matching South Africa’s tears after one of the all time chokes cost them their first World Cup title and handed India victory on a tense day in ...

South Africa And The World Cup Jun 17, 2010, 06:00am EDT Jun 19, 2013, 04:45pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. ... Moreover, Africa's first high-speed rail link, ...

LAKAJE: Danny Jordaan was the man who led South Africa's successful 2010 FIFA World Cup bid. JORDAAN: What the World Cup has done, it has dispelled the whole notion of African pessimism.

CAF's World Cup qualifying campaign began way back in November 2023, and will conclude in November this year, where one of Africa's representatives will proceed to an Inter-confederation play-off.

Awarding South Africa the hosting rights for the 2027 Women's World Cup will help the game become truly global and prevent African teams falling behind the established powerhouses, the president ...

South Africa’s 1995 team had only one non-white player, Chester Williams, but when they won the country’s second Rugby World Cup in 2007, there were six in the squad and two in the starting ...