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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
AZ Alkmaar’s last league title came in 2008-09, with Louis van Gaal’s controlled, fit and relentless side. Eleven years later, Arne Slot’s counter-attacking 4-3-3 finished second on goal difference in a season that never reached its end. A string of...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
On 26 November 2024, Cuiabá’s relegation was confirmed with three rounds still to play. Juventude beat Atlético Mineiro 3-2 that night, and the maths left Cuiabá unable to catch the clubs above them. It was the first relegation in the...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
In April 2024, a CAF Confederation Cup semi-final between RS Berkane and USM Alger was cancelled twice in the space of eight days. The reason was not injuries or bad weather. Algerian customs had seized the Moroccan club’s shirts because...
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Zheng Yen · October 10, 2026
Algerian Ligue 1, officially the Ligue Professionnelle 1, is contested by 16 clubs across a double round-robin season. Here is how Algeria's top flight works....
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Zheng Yen · October 8, 2026
The Desert Foxes is the English rendering of Les Fennecs, the nickname Algeria’s men’s national football team carries in honour of the fennec fox, a small nocturnal animal native to the Sahara. The side is also known as Les Verts,...
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Zheng Yen · October 7, 2026
In April 2023, AZ Alkmaar became the first Dutch club to win the UEFA Youth League, beating Hajduk Split 5-0 in the final. Weeks later, the senior side went out of the Europa Conference League semi-finals against West Ham United....
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Zheng Yen · October 6, 2026
Lucas Radebe was shot in Soweto before he ever set foot in England, the bullet passing through his back and out through his thigh in an attack rumoured to have been an attempt to stop his move abroad. It did...
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Zheng Yen · October 3, 2026
Mark Williams was sitting on the bench when South Africa walked out at FNB Stadium to face Tunisia in the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations final. By the final whistle he had scored both goals in a 2-0 win, delivered...
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Zheng Yen · October 3, 2026
Ranking South Africa’s greatest players means weighing two very different careers side by side: the ones who built their legend at home in the PSL, and the ones who took South African football abroad and proved it could compete at...
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Zheng Yen · October 2, 2026
Every Soweto Derby carries a strange irony. Kaizer Chiefs, one of the two biggest clubs in South African football, exists only because its founder once played for Orlando Pirates and walked away from it. That single break in 1970 created...
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Zheng Yen · October 1, 2026
The PSL runs South African football's top division, currently branded the Betway Premiership. Our guide explains how the league works and who the big clubs are....
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Zheng Yen · September 29, 2026
Bafana Bafana is the nickname of South Africa’s men’s national football team, a Zulu and Nguni phrase that roughly translates to “the boys, the boys” or, in the way most fans hear it, “go, boys, go.” It is one of...
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Zheng Yen · September 28, 2026
Nigeria has won the FIFA U-17 World Cup five times, more than any other country, so talent is not the shortage. The hard part for a young player is knowing which door to knock on, and which doors are a...
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Zheng Yen · September 27, 2026
Nigeria has produced so many outstanding players that any top ten list starts an argument, and that argument is half the fun. A 1994 Africa Cup of Nations winner, a Champions League champion at Chelsea, a Serie A top scorer...
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Zheng Yen · September 26, 2026
At Bolton Wanderers, the fans had a chant for him: “Jay-Jay, so good they named him twice.” The chant played on his doubled nickname, which Augustine Azuka Okocha inherited from his elder brother James, and it stuck because the football...
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Zheng Yen · September 26, 2026
On 7 November 2012, Victor Wanyama headed home at Celtic Park against Barcelona. Celtic won 2-1, and a 21-year-old from Nairobi became the first Kenyan to score in the Champions League. That header was one of several firsts in a...
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Zheng Yen · September 25, 2026
On 29 March 2022 in Abuja, Nigeria needed a win to reach the World Cup. Thomas Partey shot from outside the box in the 10th minute and it slipped through goalkeeper Francis Uzoho’s hands, and Ghana’s away goal did the...
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Zheng Yen · September 25, 2026
Alpha Onyango’s 83rd-minute goal on 26 April 2026 was the only one at Nyayo National Stadium, and it was enough to send Gor Mahia six points clear at the top of the Kenyan league. The crowd was reported to be...
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Zheng Yen · September 24, 2026
On 11 February 2024 in Abidjan, William Troost-Ekong put Nigeria ahead in the 38th minute of the Africa Cup of Nations final. Franck Kessié levelled after the break, and Sébastien Haller scored the winner in the 81st minute for hosts...
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Zheng Yen · September 24, 2026
On 2 February 2004, Kenya beat Burkina Faso 3-0 and picked up a first-ever win at the Africa Cup of Nations. It had taken 32 years, since the team’s debut in 1972, and it was still not enough to reach...
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