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Zimbabwe can book a place in the quarterfinals of the Cosafa Cup on Tuesday when they take on the Seychelles in their second Group A clash at the Moruleng Stadium. If the Warriors follow up their opening day 2-0 win over Mauritius on Sunday with another victory against Seychelles (kick-off 17h00) it will take them to six points in the ...

Ivory Coast coach Herve Renard has announced that he would be meeting the country’s football federation president on Wednesday to discuss his future amid reports the Frenchman is on the verge of joining Ligue 1 side Lille. Renard, who led the Elephants to triumph at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, still has 18 months left on ...

Raheem Sterling is expected to tell Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers he wants to leave Anfield this summer. The England forward has already turned down a new £100,000-a-week contract, and denied being a “money-grabber” in a BBC Sport interview last month. Sterling will meet Reds chief executive Ian Ayre and Rodgers on Friday, when he is set to tell them he ...

The Zambia Army Command has cleared Green Buffaloes Football Club Coach Wedson Nyirenda to take up his new coaching job at Club Ferroviario in Beira, Mozambique. This after the Mozambican Club agreed to meet the contractual obligation which was binding to Nyirenda who was on a one year renewable contract with GBFC. Army Spokesperson Colonel Chris Musonda in a statement ...

A string of superb saves from Kevin Jean-Louis could not prevent Mauritius losing 2-0 to Zimbabwe on Sunday in a Cosafa Cup opening-round match. Carlos Rusere and Ronald Chitiyo scored for the four-time champions at Moruleng Stadium near South African north-west mining town Rustenburg. In the first Group A match, lowly Seychelles surprisingly held wasteful Namibia 0-0, and almost snatched ...

A year that equals the best in Barcelona’s history, with La Liga in the bag and Champions League and Copa del Rey finals to come, couldn’t have started more inauspiciously. The Catalans opened 2015 with a 1-0 defeat at Real Sociedad on the field and descended into full blown institutional crisis off it. Lionel Messi and Neymar had been left ...

Bristol Rovers beat Grimsby Town on penalties to win the Conference promotion final and secure an instant return to the Football League. The Mariners went ahead inside the opening two minutes at Wembley thanks to Lenell John-Lewis’ bundled finish. Bristol Rovers forward Ellis Harrison then slammed home an equaliser. And, after a goalless second half and extra-time period, Lee Mansell ...

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho says “without him”, captain John Terry would not still be at the club. Terry, 34, has played every minute of every league match this season, skippering the Blues to their fourth Premier League title triumph. “I think he knows that, without me, he probably wouldn’t be at Chelsea in this moment,” said Mourinho. “But I also ...

Neither side could find the net in a tense first half, during which adverse weather affected play. The visitors went ahead when John Sutton converted a penalty after Thomas Reilly had fouled Lee Erwin. But Jason Naismith scrambled in an equaliser and, after Well’s Scott McDonald had been dismissed, Stephen Mallan netted St Mirren’s winner. Defeat for Well means they ...

Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal says the club already have replacements in mind should goalkeeper David De Gea decide to leave Old Trafford. The Spain international is out of contract next summer but has yet to sign a new deal offered by the club. Van Gaal said he does not know if the 24-year-old will stay, but said plans ...