Tag: Africans
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Persian Gulf: Double for Tawamba as Nigerians shine in Iraq
While the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait championships were on break last weekend, the others went ahead as normal. In Saudi Arabia (Matchday 13), a brace from Cameroonian Léandre Tawamba enabled Al Akhdoud (16th) to beat Al Hazem (2-1). Al Khaleej (12th) won (3-1) against Al-Taee (15th), with a goal from Egyptian Mohamed Sherif. Ghanaian…
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Persian Gulf: Delort hat-trick, Mahrez scores again, Olunga effective
African players were particularly effective in the Persian Gulf.This was particularly the case for Algerians Delort, Brahimi, Boulaya and Mahrez. Olunga and Gueye scored twice. Matchday 12 of the Saudi Arabian league ended with another goal from Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez, as fourth-placed Al-Ahli beat Al-Riyadh 3-0. Cameroon’s Karl Toko Ekambi gave Abha (12th) a 3-2…
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NBA: 10 Africans and 10 challenges for the new season
The new NBA season kicks off on 24 October. While there was no African champion last season, Joel Embiid was MVP and top scorer. And once again this year, there are bound to be African stars to shine on the NBA. On Sunday, Sport News Africa publishes the 5 most eagerly awaited Africans before revealing…
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Football – National teams: These Africans from elsewhere
Some players of African origin play for European, Asian and South American national teams that no one would have thought of spontaneously. Here’s a quick rundown… Ange-Samuel Kouamé, the Ivorian turned Taiwanese international For a long time now, many European national teams have been mixed, with players from a wide range of countries, including Africa.France,…
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Europa League: Five Africans, five challenges
As it does every day in the Europa League, Sport News Africa highlights five African footballers who face challenges in the competition. Chancel Mbemba, regaining his confidence Huge last season until Tudor surprisingly decided to dispense with his services for a change of system, Chancel Mbemba has been far less reassuring since the start of…
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European Cups: 17 Africans find the net
The group phase of the Champions League and Europa League kicked off this week. Lots of goals, a few surprises, and seventeen African players who found the net, often decisively. Paris-SG have been proclaiming their ambition to win the Champions League for years. In the last two seasons, however, they have reached the last 8…
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Transfer Window 2023: The right moves for Africa
The 2023 summer mercato has closed its doors.Sport News Africa takes this opportunity to pick out some of the good moves made by European clubs in recruiting African players. The pick of the bunch goes to Premier League clubs, who have recruited the likes of Mohamed Kudus, Sofyan Amrabat and Carlos Baleba. Sofyan Amrabat and…
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Bundesliga: These African strikers could scare Harry Kane
Previously dominated by serial goal scorers such as Lewandowski and Aubameyang, the Bundesliga is now showing itself to be more open, with new styles of “9” high on the goal-scoring charts .Nicolas Füllkrug, last season’s Bundesliga top scorer in a promoted team, may have shown the way for African strikers, with Kolo Muani and Nkunku…
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World Basketball 2023: Sousa and Amin shine as Hawkinson goes hot on Dončić’s heels
On the opening day of Day 3, two Africans distinguished themselves with their countries. They were Silvio De Sousa (Angola, 19 pts, 9 rbds, 2 assists) and Ehab Amin (Egypt, 22 pts, 6 rbds, 10 assists). However, the performance of Japanese Joshua Hawkinson (33 pts, +38 rating) should be noted.Guerschon Yabusele (18 pts) contributed to…
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Football: African scorers in European Leagues
Boniface and Osimhen, the two Nigerian strikers and several of their compatriots, as well as Jackson from Senegal and Marmoush and Mohamed from Egypt, were the talk of the last weekend of August. Nicolas Jackson among the weekend’s African goalscorers In Germany (Matchday 2), Bayer Leverkusen (6pts) can already congratulate themselves on signing Victor Boniface.…