African Cup of Nations

June 22nd, 2009

Drogba-to-Marseille prospect returns in cyclical fashion

By: Daniel Phan | Comments 14 Comments

It’s intriguing, or rather not – to hear of speculation surrounding the ‘imminent’ return of Didier Drogba to the Vélodrome.
You may ask “Why the pessimism? My answer is simply that it has been a reoccurring scenario that comes and goes in periodical cycles as frequent as Berlusconi makes the Italian tabloids – each instance teasing [...]



May 21st, 2009

Mamadou Samassa Called Up With Mali…

By: Magnusson | Comments No Comments

For the first time in his career, Mamadou Samassa (23, 19 matches in Ligue 1, 2 goals) has been called up with the Mali National Team in order to play against Mali and Benin, respectively on June 7th and 21th. Both matches will be apart of the third and last round of the joint qualifiers [...]

February 9th, 2009

Taye Taïwo, African left-back of the year…

By: Magnusson | Comments 5 Comments

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced its 2008 African Team of the Year.
Our left-back, Taye Taiwo, has the great honor to be a part of it. In this team of the African continent, he shares the limelight, among others, with a former Marseillais, Joseph Yobo, who is now playng for Everton.
The team is [...]

July 22nd, 2008

Tuesday, slow news day…

By: Magnusson | Comments 7 Comments

A lot has happened in the last four days. Once Bakary Koné was signed from Nice, Pape Diouf told the press that the Mercato was over for us, unless some other players leave. This of course came as a surprise as many players were believed to still be on their way out, namely Karim Ziani, [...]

July 11th, 2008

Saturday morning MEGA update…

By: Magnusson | Comments 4 Comments

I promised myself I wouldn’t make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft fansd out there) so I didn’t get enough time to post a thing on here.

Arsenal finally gets Samir Nasri.
First of all, the latest news comes from France Football and is [...]



January 10th, 2008

Taye Taïwo and the other Afircans are gone…

By: Magnusson | Comments No Comments

So Taye Taïwo and a some of his teammates left for their respective selections and are now preparig the Afrcan Cup of Nations that will start Sunday December 20th with the Ghana-Guinea confrontation. On that game Inara from the Lyon Offside will keep you posted if you head to our sister site The World Cup [...]




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