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Zambia's captain Christopher Katongo kisses the 2012 Orange Africa Cup of Nations trophy as Gabon President Ali Bongo, right, applauds, after Zambia beat Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 8-7 on penalties in the tournament final soccer match at Stade de l'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, Sunday night, Feb. 12, 2012. Zambia is winning the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time and regarded as a befitting honour for 25 national team players and officials who died in plane crush in 1993 in Gabon.

 (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell). Congratulations to the Chipolopolo (the Copper bullets)! Jennifer Hudson singing "I Will Always Love You" in tribute to Whitney Houston at the 54th Grammy Awards Sunday night (12.02.12). Whitney was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. May her soul rest in peace. Tweet

20 Jan 2012 07:55 Africa/Lagos A Beautiful Game on a Beautiful Continent LAGOS, January 20, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Being text of a goodwill message sent by the African Public Relations Association (APRA) to The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Mr. Issa Hayatou on the occasion of the 28th Edition of the Africa Cup of Nations 18 – 01 – 2012 It all started in 1956 in Lisbon, Portugal when a few visionaries came together to birth the vehicle for Africa's integration into global football, the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This was quickly followed in 1957 by the hosting of the first edition of All Africa football tournament in Khartoum in which only three countries namely Egypt, Ethiopia and host country Sudan featured. Fifty Five years later with sixteen nations, the whole of Africa and indeed the world wait with palpable excitement, for the commencement of the 28th edition of the African Cup of Nations Finals (AFCON) holding betw...

Photo Credit: Gringo In Bueno Saires 21 Jul 2011 19:14 Africa/Lagos More Than Half of Argentines Online Visit Sports Sites OLE.com.ar, Gran DT and Canchallena.com Lead as Most-Visited Sports Destinations PR Newswire BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 21, 2011 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on the online Sports category in Argentina based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service. The study found that Argentina ranked as the tenth largest global market by percent reach of sports sites with more than half of all online users in the country visiting a sports destination in May 2011. The study also found that OLE.com.ar ranked as the most-visited sports destination with more than 2 million visitors, followed by Gran DT and Canchallena.com. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080115/COMSCORELOGO) "Argentines' passion for sports is apparent both on the fie...

25 Jun 2011 10:06 Africa/Lagos Women's football teams ‘Give AIDS the Red Card' to keep children free from HIV GENEVA, June 24, 2011/location>)/ -- Captains of national football teams competing in the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 soccer championship in Germany are signing up to the Give AIDS the Red Card appeal in support of a global plan to eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015. The Give AIDS the Red Card appeal, which was launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) one year ago at the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, uses the power and outreach of football to unite the world around stopping new HIV infections in children. UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé said, “As the most important international competition in women's football, this tournament provides a platform to raise global awareness about the campaign to keep babies from becoming infected with HIV, and their mothers from dying from AIDS.” Every day mor...

Over aged Nigerian Players in African Youth Championship Exposed Cheating starts with lying. In Nigeria lying is a way of life to make ends meet and to catch up the Joneses. Couples shamelessly lie to cheat themselves. Boyfriends lie to their girlfriends and girlfriends lie to their boyfriends in their two can play games of conceit and deceit to cheat themselves. Politicians, pupils, students, scholars, professors and other professionals lie and cheat to succeed. The most successful people in Nigeria lied and cheated their way to the top. Nigerian soccer players are perhaps the worst cheats in the game. They lie about their ages to compete in both CAF and FIFA youth competitions. You see a young Nigerian who is almost 40 years old claiming to be less than 21 years and joining the Flying Eagles and playing in the African Youth Championship, FIFA U-20 World Cup or the FIFA World U-17 World Cup. But a former national soccer team star Adokiye Amiesimaka has been exposing them all. The foll...