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  • Abu-Trika, Fathi arrive in Nigeria to compete for best African-based player award

    Abu-Trika, Fathi arrive in Nigeria to compete for best African-based player award

    Date: 2014-01-09 15:31:44 GMT - Nigeria - Sport - SN:43 - ID:488950

    Al-Ahly former player Mohamed Abu-Trika and Ahly teammate Ahmed Fathi arrived in Lagos to attend the CAF gala that will be held today in the presence of a host of sports officials in Nigeria and CAF. CAF had named Abu-Trika in the short list for ....

  • Salah, Abou Terika of best players in Africa- French magazine

    Salah, Abou Terika of best players in Africa- French magazine

    Date: 2014-01-08 18:39:57 GMT - France - Sport - SN:41 - ID:487244

    Two Egyptian players Mohamed Salah and Mohamed Abou Terika are among the best football players in Africa, the French Magazine Jeune Afrique reported Wednesday. The two players have been selected through a poll held by the French magazine to vote ....

  • World Cup will not be played in summer in Qatar

    World Cup will not be played in summer in Qatar

    Date: 2014-01-08 17:11:56 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:29 - ID:487081

    Confusion reigned at the top of sport's world governing body after the FIFA general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, said that the World Cup will not be played in the summer months in Qatar in 2022, The Guardian reported. "The dates of the World Cup ....

  • Michael Schumacher's wife Corinna appeals for privacy

    Michael Schumacher's wife Corinna appeals for privacy

    Date: 2014-01-07 11:48:50 GMT - France - Sport - SN:38 - ID:484399

    The wife of retired Formula 1 star Michael Schumacher has appealed for privacy and for reporters to leave the clinic where he is being treated, the BBC reported Tuesday. He has been in a medically-induced coma for the past eight days following a ....

  • Portugal football legend Eusebio dies aged 71

    Portugal football legend Eusebio dies aged 71

    Date: 2014-01-05 12:05:01 GMT - United Kingdom - Sport - SN:38 - ID:480486

    Portugal football legend Eusebio, who was top scorer at the 1966 World Cup, has died at the age of 71, the BBC reported Sunday. Born in Mozambique in 1942 when it was still a Portuguese colony, Eusebio da Silva Ferreira went on to play 64 times ....

  • World Soccer: Aboutrika one of people of year

    World Soccer: Aboutrika one of people of year

    Date: 2014-01-02 12:59:56 GMT - Egypt - Sport - SN:14 - ID:475380

    The World Soccer magazine chose Al-Ahly and Egyptian playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika as one of the people of year. It said Aboutrika’s roll-call of honors alone would place him among the continent’s greats: five African Champions League titles, seven ....

  • Sports min. refers handball officials to prosecution for financial corruption

    Sports min. refers handball officials to prosecution for financial corruption

    Date: 2013-12-31 16:25:48 GMT - Egypt - Sport - SN:34 - ID:472276

    Sports Minister Taher Abu Zeid decided to refer Hassan Moustafa, the former head of the Egyptian Handball Federation, together with two former officials of the federation to the Public Funds Prosecution on charges of squandering public funds. ....

  • Germany's Bayern Munich win Club World Cup

    Germany's Bayern Munich win Club World Cup

    Date: 2013-12-22 07:54:50 GMT - Morocco - Sport - SN:5 - ID:454685

    Bayern Munich won Saturday the Club World Cup after beating Morocco's Raja Casablanca 2-0. Dante scored the first goal in the seventh minute of the first half deflating the Moroccan hosts at Marrakech stadium. Thiago Alcantara put the ....

  • FIFA to use 'vanishing spray' in games

    FIFA to use 'vanishing spray' in games

    Date: 2013-12-20 17:26:30 GMT - United Kingdom - Sport - SN:42 - ID:452676

    Players slowly edging forward in the wall during free-kicks are set to become a thing of the past – with Fifa confirming plans to fully introduce vanishing spray, a British paper said on Friday. The recently developed spray is carried by referees ....

  • FIFA fines Ahly due to its fans

    FIFA fines Ahly due to its fans

    Date: 2013-12-19 15:54:31 GMT - Switzerland - Sport - SN:43 - ID:451033

    FIFA decided to impose a fine, worth 500,000 dollars, on the Egyptian football giant Al-Ahly due to its fans who attended the Mexico's Monterrey match yesterday in Morocco as part of the Club World Cup. The fans threw fireworks during the match ....

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