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 [...]
CAIRO: At least one protester in Egypt’s Port Said city was shot dead on Friday night as fans of the local club team clashed with security forces after the club was banned for two seasons. One eyewitness told Bikyamasr.com that “it was really chaos and scary as the guns were heard. I thought we all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: Qatar security forces detained 12 Egyptian citizens following a football match between Egypt and Congo in the Qatari capital, Doha, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Saturday. According to the Cairo-based rights organization, the Egyptians were held for over 10 hours after they had been arrested for allegedly carrying banners [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan became the world’s most capped footballer ever on Wednesday when he came on in Egypt’s 1-0 victory over Niger. The 36-year-old midfielder came onto the pitch in the 87th minute during the Pharaoh’s victory in Qatar’s capital Doha, overtaking Saudi Arabia’s goalkeeper Mohamed al-Deayea with the most ever appearances for his [...]
ROME: The United States football team stunned European giants Italy on Wednesday for a rare victory in Europe. It is the first-ever victory for the US over Italy. Clint Dempsey scored a second-half winner as Italy crashed to a 1-0 defeat against the United States at Genoa’s Luigi Ferraris stadium Wednesday. Italy coach Cesare Prandelli [...]
CAIRO (dpa) – AC Milan defender Philippe Mexes received a three-game ban for punching Marco Borriello during a Series A game which the Devils drew 1-1 with guests Juventus at the weekend. The League of professional clubs (Lega Serie A) said Monday that a sports judge based his ruling on television footage showing the French [...]
CAIRO: A goodwill delegation of around 100 of Egypt’s thinkers, artists and media took a trip on Monday to the city of Port Said in an attempt to close the wedge between the seaside city and the rest of the country after violence at a football match in the city left 75 dead and hundreds [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s national football team manager Bob Bradley said in an interview with Al-Jazeera news network that he believes, after speaking with leading football officials in the country, that the violence last Wednesday at a match in Port Said that left 75 people dead was not simple football violence. He argued that it did not [...]
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