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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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Zheng Yen · September 23, 2026
The Nigeria Premier Football League, or NPFL, is the country’s top club competition. Twenty clubs play each other home and away, the bottom four are relegated, and the best finishers earn places in Africa’s continental tournaments. The 2025/26 season showed...
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Zheng Yen · September 23, 2026
Kenya’s top division goes by three names. Kenyan Premier League, FKF Premier League and SportPesa League all describe the same competition, which is one reason newcomers find it confusing before a ball is even kicked. The football itself is simpler...
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Zheng Yen · September 22, 2026
The Super Eagles are Nigeria’s men’s national football team, run by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). They have won the Africa Cup of Nations three times, taken Olympic gold in 1996 and played at six World Cups. For a country...
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Zheng Yen · September 22, 2026
Kenya has played at the Africa Cup of Nations six times, spread across nearly half a century, and has won exactly two matches in all of them. The Harambee Stars have never once made it out of the group. In...
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Zheng Yen · September 20, 2026
Kenyan football has never produced the sheer volume of European exports that West Africa has, which makes the players who did break through worth taking seriously on their own terms. This ranking weighs three things: how high each player’s peak...
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Zheng Yen · September 19, 2026
Kenya’s national football team takes its name from a word most Kenyans hear long before they ever watch a match. Harambee, Swahili for “all pull together,” is the country’s official national motto, and it has been attached to the football...
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Zheng Yen · September 18, 2026
Not every club chasing continental silverware is fighting for the same trophy. Below the CAF Champions League sits a second competition with its own history, its own dominant clubs, and its own path to a final, the CAF Confederation Cup....
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Zheng Yen · September 18, 2026
For 17 years, CHAN answered a question AFCON never really could: who is the best team built entirely from players plying their trade at home? That question no longer has a tournament attached to it. CAF confirmed in December 2025...
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Zheng Yen · September 17, 2026
Sixty-one clubs entered and sixteen reached the group stage. Our guide explains how Africa's biggest club competition works, who is in the 2026-27 groups and what is at stake....
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Zheng Yen · September 17, 2026
Cameroon had lost all three of their previous Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals. Three times they had gone all the way to the last match and come away with nothing. So when they finally lifted the trophy in Rabat...
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Oluwafunmilayo Fadenipo · September 16, 2026
Spain won the 2026 World Cup while conceding only one goal, the first team to do so. Their two most talked-about young players, Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsi, are both 19. The rest of the world has four years to...
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Zheng Yen · September 16, 2026
Your full calendar of African football in 2027, from AFCON to the CAF club competitions, so you know what to follow and when....
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