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• Senegal extend Ndiaye's contract
  Senegal's Normalisation Committee extends national coach Lamin Ndiaye's contract until the end of October.
  

• Liberia's Germany tour collapses
  Liberia's scheduled training camp in Germany has been called off.
  

• Senegal league to restart
  The interim governing body of football in Senegal announces the start of the long delayed domestic championship.
  

• Ghana in no rush for new coach
  The Ghana Football Association says it will not rush to appoint a new coach to replace Claude LeRoy.
  

• Olembe released by Wigan
  Wigan release two midfielders, Josip Skoko and Salomon Olembe, after neither was offered a fresh contract.
  

• Nigeria late for Malaysia tourney
  The Nigeria Olympic team's opening game against Iraq in the Intercontinental Cup invitational tournament in Malaysia is postponed.
  

• Bolton not ready to let Diouf go
  Bolton boss Gary Megson says that El-Hadji Diouf could still be at the club next season, despite the player saying he will be leaving.
  

• Ouaddou abuser is punished
  A Metz fan who racially abused Morocco's Abdeslam Ouaddou gets a suspended jail sentence and a ban.
  

• Fifa say Sudan, Chad game is on
  Fifa say that Sudan's 2010 World Cup qualifier against Chad will go ahead, despite political tension between the countries.
  

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  The African Champions League
  

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  2010 World Cup Qualifiers
  

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• With five teams from sub-Saharan Africa in the last eight of the Champs League, is the power base shifting?
  
  

• Football's healing powers
  Football helps to rebuild links in war-torn southern Sudan
  

• 'Bafana Bafana is a long-term project' - Independent Online

  Football365.co.za

  'Bafana Bafana is a long-term project' Independent Online, South Africa - 18 hours ago You haven't played club football in South Africa for a while, what do you make of the calibre of player emerging from the PSL? We have great talent back in ... South Africans still positive of a successful 2010 Athlone 2010: Fans to spend R40bn in SA News24.com Four years on, stage is set Fifa.com SABC News - Football365.co.za all 27 news articles

  
  

• South Africa: Jordaan is 'Da Man' in the Football World - AllAfrica.com

  South Africa: Jordaan is 'Da Man' in the Football World AllAfrica.com, Washington - 15 May 2008 Only Fifa president Sepp Blatter (ranked number one), the football governing body's secretary-general Jerome Valcke and Uefa president Michel Platini, ...

  
  

• Angola/South Africa: Football - South Africa Want Final - AllAfrica.com

  Angola/South Africa: Football - South Africa Want Final AllAfrica.com, Washington - 7 May 2008 The coach of South Africa's women team of football, Anna Monate, Wednesday in Benguela, expressed the wish to see her team play Angolan squad in the final ...

  
  

• The wisdom of Williams: Week One - TVNZ

  Telegraph.co.uk

  The wisdom of Williams: Week One TVNZ, New Zealand - 5 hours ago ... Football stopped being developed in Southern California? No!" "Let's go back to the days when playing South Africa, and South African teams was special. ... Lions players can profit in South Africa guardian.co.uk McGeechan thrilled to be Lions coach again Times Online McGeechan revels in fourth Lions challenge Independent The Press Association - Sportingo all 628 news articles

  
  

• >>ECOWAS Throws Weight Behind WAFU - LeadershipNigeria

  >>ECOWAS Throws Weight Behind WAFU LeadershipNigeria, Nigeria - 15 May 2008 West Africa is the power house of football in Africa and we need to make our presence manifest in National and International competition, ...

  
  

• Namibia: One of Football's Great Characters - AllAfrica.com

  Namibia: One of Football's Great Characters AllAfrica.com, Washington - 16 hours ago Stars defeated Black Africa in the final by 3 goals to 2, with Africa's Pius "Garrincha" Eigowab netting a brace on that memorable day. ...

  
  

• Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi - Mmegi

  Mmegi

  Botswana women not a bad team - Mphukuthi Mmegi, Botswana - 15 May 2008 He said though they did not perform well at the just-ended Confederation of South Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament, Batswana benefited as ...

  
  

• Messi on 2010 and our football - Independent Online

  Kickoff

  Messi on 2010 and our football Independent Online, South Africa - 15 May 2008 ... match we played last season, their technical standard is quite high and I'm sure that the World Cup will help make football in South Africa stronger. ... > Comrades moves for Fifa tournaments SA2010 Government Website 'We must make it Africa's time' Independent Online all 6 news articles

  
  

• Football match takes ugly turn - Bangkok Post

  Football match takes ugly turn Bangkok Post, Thailand - 1 hour ago A football game between the government and the opposition on Tuesday was supposed to be a friendly, but it turned into an ill-tempered match marred by a ...

  
  

• State seeks transport legacy while making football history - Creamer Media's Engineering News

  State seeks transport legacy while making football history Creamer Media's Engineering News, South Africa - 13 May 2008 ... as it connected two key 2010 venues, Soccer City, which is the home of South Africa's football and the venue for the 2010 opening and final match, ...