Santos' defensive pair of captain Musa Otieno and his vice Zvenyika Makonese are in a race against time to attain fitness ahead of the Cape Town side's clash against equally an struggling Maritzburg United tonight.

Goals galore and soccer action aplenty is on the cards when Diski-5-Gauteng province soccer action takes Sandton's Mandela Square by storm today (from 16h00) and Sunday, November 23 (from 15h00).

The time is near". That was the declaration from Fifa Secretary General Jerome Valcke at a packed Fifa Confederations Cup draw press conference at the Sandton Convention Centre today.

A mass purge is expected in the Nigerian women's team coaching set-up following the poor performances of the national teams in recent months.

Nigeria coach Shuaibu Amodu is pleased with his team's exertions on Wednesday despite having gone down 1-0 to Colombia in their international friendly match in Cali.

Midfielder Sani Kaita has told KickOffNigeria.com that he was disappointed to have been sent off in the Super Eagles 1-0 loss to Colombia in Wednesday's friendly match.

Ghana's boxing professor, Barima Azumah Nelson has been awarded the 2008 'Dennie Mancini' prize for boxing excellence at an award ceremony hosted by the Commonwealth Boxing Council and the British Boxing Board of Control in London.

Coach Mabi de Almeida has affirmed that he is capable of managing the national soccer squad, if he is invited to occupy the post left by Oliveira Gonçalves.

TAFADZWA Madondo, who passed away on Monday in Bali, Indonesia, aged only 27, was a genius who shunned low standards in his shortened lifetime.

SUNDAY Chidzambwa has sensationally bounced back as Zimbabwe national soccer team coach for a second term.

THE Zimbabwe Sevens rugby team assembles in Harare today ahead of the first two legs of the IRB World Sevens Series in Dubai and George, South Africa, to be held in the next two weeks.

NOSTALGIC feelings will be the order of the day when a Mutare side play in final of the country's major football knockout competition for the first time in 10 years.

The top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has condemned last night's killing of a journalist working for a UN-sponsored radio station in the troubled Great Lakes country, the second assassination of its kind in

The top United Nations official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has condemned last night's killing of a journalist working for a UN-sponsored radio station in the troubled Great Lakes country, the second assassination of its kind in

While the responsibility for this crisis [in Somalia] lies first and foremost with the Somali leadership, the international community, principally the U.S. government and members of the UN Security Council, has also failed ... They have failed repeatedly to take

Goma (Agenzia Fides) Jesuit Refugee Services is showing its deep concern for the humanitarian catastrophe in the North Kivu, particularly the effects on children, in a statement issued on November 20, for the celebration of Universal Children's Day. Their main

Zimbabwe denies refusing entry to a team led by former UN chief Kofi Annan and ex-US president Jimmy Carter.

If peace and understanding could be human, then South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu would be one of the best examples of these concepts because few have worked harder for them, often in the face of insurmountable odds.

UN-backed talks have opened will open in Djibouti on Saturday in a bid to end the civil conflict that has raged in Somalia for nearly two decades.