The national senior males soccer team of Angola will play against their counterparts of Benin, as from 03:30pm at Coqueiros stadium, in Luanda, in a first round qualifier to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The rejuvenated senior national team, the Super Eagles, under the tutelage of coach Amodu Shuaibu, will this afternoon at the Abuja national stadium face the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in the first leg of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

WITH grim determination etched on their faces, Bafana players pledged not to allow the possible hostility that awaits them in Nigeria to distract the national team from their intended goal of finally beating the old enemy on Sunday.

Former Cranes captains Sam Kabugo, George Ssemwogere and Edgar Watson have predicted that their successors will beat Niger in today's African Nations Cup qualifier at Namboole. The game will be televised by pay TV company GTV.

There is no other option on the menu for the Super Eagles than to win in today's 2010 Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa at the National Stadium, Abuja.

Kenya's Harambee Stars fell to a late goal against Namibia at the Windhoek Independence Stadium Saturday, to lose 1-2 in their opening Group Two match of the World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

SOUTH African emerging team coach Chester Williams yesterday expressed bitter disappointment at the "unfair" predicament he finds himself in ahead of the IRB Nations Cup next month.