African Nations Cup ‘will go ahead’ despite Togo shooting
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THE African Cup of Nations will go ahead despite an attack by gunmen on the bus carrying the Togo team as the players entered the host country Angola for the tournament, the organisers CAF said.
“Our first priority is the safety of the players but the tournament will go ahead,” CAF spokesman Suleimanu Habubu said in Luanda.
A bus driver was killed in the gun attack on Friday shortly after the Togo team crossed...
EPL bosses call for African Cup cancellation
Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
SEVERAL Premier League bosses have suggested the African Nations Cup should be cancelled after the Togo national football team was attacked by gunfire.
The country’s team bus was attacked by rebels armed with machine guns as they crossed the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda for the tournament, which is due to start on Sunday, leaving the driver dead and two players...
Togo withdraw from African Cup 2010
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TOGO have withdrawn from the African Nations Cup in Angola following the machine gun attack on their team bus on Friday, with the death toll now understood to have risen to four.
The team bus was attacked by rebels after crossing the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda ahead of the tournament.
There have been conflicting reports about the identity of those shot, but Togo assistant...
Goalkeeper ‘dies in Togo gun attack’
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TOGO goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale has reportedly died from gunshot wounds sustained in an ambush on the team bus in Angola, bringing the death toll from the attack to four.
Two members of Togo’s national team delegation and a driver also died following an ambush on the team’s bus as it travelled to the African Cup of Nations.
Striker Jonathan Ayite told RMC radio: “Yes, he is dead, as well as our assistant...
African elite set to do battle for Nations Cup
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EVERY two years, the CAF African Cup of Nations sheds a vibrant light on the passions roused by the beautiful game in Africa.
Tucked in at the start of the calendar year, the upcoming edition in Angola could almost be mistaken for a late Christmas present, with former winners Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia all eager to boost their trophy tally when the actions gets underway between 10...
FIFA consoles Togo after Angola gun attack
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FIFA has offered “utmost sympathy” to the Togo team after their bus was attacked by gunmen, leaving the driver dead and nine others wounded as it entered Angola for the African Cup of Nations.
“FIFA and its president, Joseph S. Blatter, are deeply moved by today’s incidents which affected Togo’s national team, to whom they express their utmost sympathy,” FIFA said.
FIFA said it was...
“Players injured, driver dead” after Togo bus attack
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THE Togo national team bus has been machine-gunned by Angolan rebels on the Congolese border ahead of the African Nations Cup.
Two players are reported to be injured and a Togolese sports ministry spokesman in Lome said that the bus driver had been killed in the attack. The Sparrow Hawks are in the country ahead of the African tournament, which gets under way on Sunday.
“The Angolan driver was killed on the spot,”...
Togo players injured, driver killed after Angola attack
Posted by admin on Jan 09, 2010 | 2 Comments
GUNMEN opened fire on the coach carrying Togo’s national football squad to African Cup of Nations in Angola, killing the driver and wounding nine others, including two players.
The bus had just entered the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, where separatists have waged a three-decade long war, when it came under heavy gunfire for several minutes, a Togo team official said.
An Angolan minister called the attack an “act...
Big freeze: Five EPL games called off
Posted by admin on Jan 09, 2010 | 6 Comments
FIVE Premier League weekend fixtures have already fallen victim to the adverse weather conditions enveloping England, with Chelsea’s match at Hull City the latest to be called off.
Liverpool’s clash with Tottenham, Fulham’s game against Portsmouth, Stoke’s trip to Burnley and Sunderland’s fixture against Bolton at the Stadium of Light have also been postponed.
And another Premier League game...
Manchester City can win Premier League title, says Vieira
Posted by admin on Jan 08, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira believes his new club are still in the Premier League title race and that there is enough quality at Eastland’s to win it.
The veteran France international passed a medical on Thursday to become Roberto Mancini’s first signing as City manager and was presented to the media on Friday afternoon.
“When you look at the players the club has got you can achieve a lot,”...
