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The Zambia national football team has reached the 2015 Cosafa Cup plate final following a comfortable 3-0 victory over West African guests Ghana at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Wednesday. And Green Buffaloes midfielder Allan Mukuka was voted the man of the match. Two goals in the 25th and 29th minutes from Bonwell Mwape and Aaron Katebe respectively gave Zambia ...

Officials from football’s world governing body Fifa took bribes totalling hundreds of millions of dollars over more than 20 years to allocate tournaments and rig elections, US law enforcement officials say. Prosecutors said they had discovered a dozen schemes, including one awarding the 2010 World Cup to South Africa. Fourteen people are under indictment. Fifa president Sepp Blatter is not ...

The Cosafa Cup Plate semifinals on Wednesday will feature some of the heavyweights of the continent in what will be two fascinating match-ups at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace. West African guest nation Ghana take on defending Cosafa Cup champions Zambia (kick-off 17h00 local; 15h00 GMT), while hosts South Africa entertain Malawi (kick-off 19h30 local; 17h30 GMT). Few would have ...

Authorities in Zurich on Wednesday launched an operation to arrest several high-ranking Fifa officials on corruption charges and extradite them to the United States, the New York Times reported. The Times, citing anonymous law enforcement officials, said the US federal charges include racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud and span two decades of misconduct in soccer’s world governing body. More ...

Trevor Bayliss has been appointed as the first Australian to coach England. The 52-year-old New South Wales coach succeeds Peter Moores, whose second spell ended in a sacking in early May. Bayliss led Sri Lanka from 2007-2011, took temporary charge of Australia  for their Twenty20 series in South Africa in 2014 and has coached Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian ...

Cosafa have clarified erroneous media reports on Monday that suggested South Africa and Zambia will play no further part in the Cosafa Cup 2015 tournament being staged in the North West province. Although the pair lost their quarterfinal matches on Sunday, both in penalty shootouts after 0-0 draws to Namibia and Botswana respectively, they potentially have two more games to ...

French Open Venue: Roland Garros, Paris Dates: 24 May – 7 June Coverage: Live text and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra commentaries on every Andy Murray match and other key games Andy Murray will lead a contingent of five British players in first-round action at the French Open on Monday. The third seed takes on Argentine qualifier Facundo Arguello ...

Holders Zambia and hosts South Africa suffered shock Cosafa Cup quarterfinals losses on Sunday after penalty shootouts in South Africa’s north-western village of Moruleng. Zambia were held 0-0 by Namibia after having a slight edge over 90 minutes and then lost 5-4 on penalties in the first match of a southern Africa championship double-header. A similar fate befell South Africa ...

Chipolopolo will this afternoon saunter into the Moruleng stadium in South Africa’s Northwest province fully aware that Zambians back home are only looking forward to one thing: a victory over their South West Neighbours, Namibia in the first quarter final of this year’s COSAFA tournament. While appreciating the demands of the citizenry, coach Honour Janza has been cautious in his ...

Valencia sealed their place in next season’s Champions League as Eibar and Almeria were relegated on a dramatic final day of the La Liga season. Deportivo La Coruna came back from 2-0 down away at champions Barcelona to spoil a homage to Xavi Hernandez at the Camp Nou and stay up with a 2-2 draw along with Granada who held ...