Against all the odds, Madagascar, one of Africa’s least heralded footballing sides, qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
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As featured on Guardian Sport The busy intersection of 25th Avenue and Steinway Street was completely shut down due to the mass of people chanting, singing, cheering and screaming. Flags were waving high…
THE STORY OF Senegal’s 2002 World Cup campaign is well known. Yet the origins of their remarkable odyssey in the Far East goes back four months to a story told far less…
BACK WHEN I WAS NINE YEARS OLD, we had a family vacation in England. As we were walking down the street in Cobham, Surrey, my father spotted a couple of Chelsea players,…
WHEN RAMADAN SOBHY’S tame shot trickled through a sea of players in the box and found the net in Egypt in March last year, Nigeria once again found themselves on the brink…
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC) is the second-largest country in Africa, and its fourth-most populated. It’s also a place as much enamoured with football as any other African nation, which, given…
When Egypt beat Tanzania 2-0 in June to qualify for the 2017 African Cup of Nations, it confirmed their first appearance at the tournament after failing to qualify for the last three…
Mandela National Stadium, to give it its official name, sits atop Namboole Hill, on the eastern outskirts of Kampala. Opened in 1997 and built by Chinese contractors, with Chinese investment, it was…
Think of African football and some would cast their minds back to the days of Cameroon at Italia 90. Roger Milla swaying his hips onto a corner flag as the Indomitable Lions…
Late in the evening of 27 April 1993, a plane is climbing out of Libreville. On board the Zambian Air Force Buffalo DHC-5D are 18 members of the Zambian national team, four…