HANOI: Ho Chi Minh City will play host to the 2012 ASEAN Football Federation Women’s Championship to be held September 13-22. The move is expected to boost women’s profiles in the country and improve the construct of women and sport, activists and women’s rights advocates told Bikyamasr.com. The tournament will be divided into two groups, [...]
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decided to dispatch a military plane to carry the mission members of al-Ahly football team from Mali after Bamako airport was reopened for air traffic movement. In a press release on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Roshdi, informed Bikyamasr.com that coordination between the Council and the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ismailia Criminal Court has adjourned the stadium massacre trial until May 5 and ordered that defendants be remanded in custody. The court will hold successive sessions starting on May 5 through May 9, to hear testimonies by the chief forensic doctor and prosecution witnesses. Defendants are accused of killing 73 and injuring 254 [...]
NEW DELHI: Promoting India as an incredible tourism destination is India’s ‘goal’ at the 2014 World Cup scheduled to be held in Brazil. According to India’s tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai a promotional media blitzkerg showcasing brand ‘Incredible India’, will be splashed all over the South American landscape. Sahai, said the government was looking at [...]
CAIRO: The “Professional Football Against Hunger” campaign is coming to hundreds of European football stadiums with the message that action is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster in the Sahel region of Africa, where a food and nutrition crisis caused by drought, chronic poverty, high food prices, displacement and conflict is affecting millions of [...]
DUBAI: Spain’s Real Madrid football club has announced that it will develop a 4.6 million square foot resort island in the United Arab Emirates. The club showed plans on Thursday for the luxury facility. It will include a number of sporting facilities, a marina, luxury hotels and villas, an amusement park, a club museum and [...]
Damascus (dpa)- Syria’s Olympic team, led by Portuguese coach Rui Almeida, will be trying to put the country’s political troubles behind them by taking a step next week towards qualification for the Olympic Games in London. The squad is on its way to Vietnam where they will take on Oman on Sunday in the Asian [...]
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s embattled Football Association (PSSI) is hopeful it will avoid a FIFA ban following its gesture of compromise to another breakaway soccer league as the power struggle in Indonesian football continues. According to a Reuters news agency report, the PSSI said it would also recognize the Indonesia Super League (ISL) if the ISL top [...]
London (dpa) – Bolton Wanderers say their stricken midfielder Fabrice Muamba is now breathing on his own but remains in serious condition. In a second statement on Monday, the Premier League club said the 23-year-old former England under-21 international was continuing to show signs of improvement, just two days after he suffered a cardiac arrest [...]
Hong Kong (dpa) – A 10-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly kicking an opposing player in the head during a football match in Hong Kong, a news report said Sunday. Police arrested the expatriate boy for assault after a video of the incident last weekend was viewed by more than 200,000 people on YouTube, the [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Former Iran and Bayern Munich striker Ali Daei was in hospital with a head injury following a car accident Saturday, Fars news agency reported in Iran. Daei, 42, who is coach of Rah Ahan Tehran, was in his own car on the way to Tehran after an away match at Isfahan in [...]
London (dpa) – Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba is reportedly “fighting for his life” after collapsing midway through his side’s FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. The 23-year-old collapsed four minutes before the end of the first half and was treated on the pitch for 10 minutes before being taken to hospital. Referee [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor charged 75 people with murder and negligence in connection with a deadly football riot last month that raged in Port Said. At least 74 people were killed in the February 1 riot, with another dozen deaths in the riotous protests that followed. Those charged include nine police officers and two minors. Among [...]
Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Ricardo Teixeira on Monday announced his resignation as president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the organizing committee of the 2014 World Cup, which is to be held in Brazil. The 64-year-old businessman and former son-in-law of ex-FIFA boss Joao Havelange had led the CBF for 23 years. Rumours [...]
MUMBAI: The world football government body FIFA said over the weekend it would investigate the recent match that saw Bahrain beat Indonesia 10-0 in a World Cup qualifier. FIFA said in a statement that it is “proceeding with this investigation as a priority” from security division offices in Jordan and Malaysia. FIFA investigators will be [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Football Association (FA) announced on Saturday that it was canceling the remainder of the premier league season as a result of the violence clashes following a February 1 football match in Port Said. The incident, the FA said, has left the country on edge and they did not see it prudent to continue [...]
LAGOS: A South African premier league coach has been suspended by club management as an investigation is undertaken into whether he asked players for money if he played them. Platinum Stars said in a statement issued late Friday that they had asked their football coach Owen da Gama to stand down while they investigated the [...]
Madrid (dpa) – Brazil playmaker Kaka has got back his trademark smile, and Real Madrid fans are again taking seriously the hope to see him perform as the world-class player he once was at AC Milan. Will it be true that “the real Kaka” is now back? The Brazilian played fantastic football Sunday, in the [...]
Dubai (dpa) – “We’re doing great,” Argentine football legend Diego Maradona says of life in Dubai. The facilities of his club, Al Wasl, are just 25 minutes away from the luxurious palm-shaped artificial island Jumeirah Palm, where he lives at a “royal residence” within the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray Hotel. At the reception, a young woman [...]
DUBAI: Embattled Argentine superstar coach Diego Maradona showed his support on Saturday for the Palestinian people and promised the national team to visit their country. “I am the number one fan of the Palestinian people. I respect them and sympathize with them as they all need that we stand by them,” Maradona told dpa in [...]
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