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Several Liberia's Lone Star players have been denied German visa because, sources say, the players' ages in their passports don't present their physical appearance. (AllAfrica)

Four years after FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced that South Africa would host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africans are still positive that the football spectacle would be a success. (AllAfrica)

South Africa's preparations towards hosting one of the largest soccer events in the world are on track, Government Spokesperson Themba Maseko has said. (AllAfrica)

Second place, Real Republicans will cut leaders, Belvic United 7 points lead to four points if they defeat Freetown United today at the Parade Ground in the ongoing first division league. (AllAfrica)

Mighty Blackpool Football Club (FC) and Shooting Stars skipper, David Simbo will leave Guinea on Sunday to France for trials with French league one side, Le Mans. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan senior males football national squad will face this Thursday afternoon, in Luanda's Cidadela Stadium, the Benfica de Luanda team, to prepare for Sunday's match against Mozambique, qualifier for the African Cup for home-based players. (AllAfrica)

Former Namibia Premiership outfit and Southern Stream Division One campaigners Deportivo Alaves, will be out to restore some lost pride after last weekend's narrow defeat at the hands of United Stars in the final of the lucrative Hansa Pilsener Cup at Otjiwarongo. (AllAfrica)

THE chairman of the Brave Warriors Supporters' Club, Kayele Kambombo, is calling on all national team fans to meet at the NFA's Soccer House today at 18h00. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria's hosting of the World Under 17 Championship received a severe knock when news spread that the Ministry of Finance has chopped off the N2.6 billion earmarked for the rehabilitation of various stadia that would host the matches. (AllAfrica)

Super Eagles Assistant coach Daniel Amokachi will not be part of the party to Graz when Nigeria take on Austria in an international friendly on May 27. (AllAfrica)

SABC, official host broadcaster of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is throwing a thanksgiving ceremony, to be held across the country today, Thursday, 15 May 2008, in honour of the anniversary of the 2004 announcement that South Africa would host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. (AllAfrica)

Star-studded Ilala municipality soccer team yesterday comprehensively demolished Mwanza by a 3-1 score to storm into the quarter finals of the ongoing Taifa Cup championship at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam. (AllAfrica)

After an unsuccessful attempt to play the Malawian national team in a friendly clash last February, Taifa Stars have finally secured a new date against the Southern African side. (AllAfrica)

Barely a day before departing to Kampala where Taifa Stars are scheduled to play their return leg match of the African Nations Championship qualifier for domestic based players against Uganda, the National Microfinance Bank (NMB) has inspired the team with Sh14 million sporting gear. (AllAfrica)

It was to a thunderous applause and tears of jubilation that FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced four years ago that South Africa's bid to host the World Cup was successful. (AllAfrica)

Dream Team 4 goalkeeper trainer, Best Ogedegbe has dispelled the notion that Super Eagles keeper, Vincent Enyeama would usurp the number one shirt in goal from current first-choice, Ambrose Vanzekin. (AllAfrica)

2010 World/Africa Cup qualifiers (AllAfrica)

Defender Elias Ntaganda has been ruled out of Amavubi Star's African Nations Championship return leg clash against Sudan this Saturday at Nyamirambo stadium. (AllAfrica)

The first ever badminton tournament in the country is set to be staged early next month, Andrew Ndayambaje, the president of local badminton federation has confirmed. Ndayambaje said this after the official launch of Nyarutarama Badminton Club yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Local soccer fans have drawn their efforts together in support of the national football side the Amavubi Stars come Saturday in the Africa Nations Championship return leg clash against Sudan at Nyamirambo stadium. (AllAfrica)

IN THE month in which SA's winning the right to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup will be commemorated, local organising committee CEO Danny Jordaan has been honoured as one of the 100 most influential people in world football. (AllAfrica)

A ground of sports-happy handball players from Shimba Hills Secondary School on their way to a weekend tournament took a gamble that paid off handsomely when they registered for a football tournament and caused the greatest upset, eliminating champions Waa Girls in the opening round of the Copa Coca-Cola. (AllAfrica)

The lull in the perennial administrative upheavals in the Kenya Football Federation was too good to last. The crippling tug of war has once again spilled over into the public domain. (AllAfrica)

Uganda's enduring love affair with the Nations Cup and World Cup tournaments has been a roller-coaster of pure agony since 1978, with the intervening years authoring a series of near-misses and abject failures. (AllAfrica)

THE FUFA Zone 7 soccer mini-league has been postponed after the teams refused to travel to Kalangala in costly boats after the ferry broke down. (AllAfrica)

CRANES fans can guarantee themselves front-seat places for the entire 2010 campaign when FUFA introduces season-tickets. (AllAfrica)

Newcastle United striker Obafemi Martins dropped in to say hello at former club Inter Milan on Wednesday afternoon. (AllAfrica)

Cranes coach Laszlo Csaba got some relief yesterday when utility player Simeon Masaba was declared fit to face Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Stars on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

For six weeks in 2010, billions of viewers across the globe will focus their eyes on South Africa during the World Cup. Thousands of football fans will flock to the home of Shaka Zulu to support their favourite soccer teams. About 15,000 accredited TV commentators, cameramen, crew and technicians are expected to facilitate live coverage of the games. It is going to be booming business for tour operators, airlines, hotels, cell phone service providers, advertisement agencies, the list is endless. (AllAfrica)

FOR nine years they were out of the continental heavyweights' football radar but when they finally announced their return with a knockout blow that floored African champions Etoile du Sahel at the weekend, Dynamos were back in the headlines around the globe. (AllAfrica)

AFRICAN Stars yesterday accused the Namibia Premier League (NPL) of acting as both prosecutor and judge by ignoring an earlier protest following an abandoned match against Black Africa last December. (AllAfrica)