Sandals For Goalposts

Micho’s Mind: Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania have paid an expensive scholarship and now it is time to heal their wounds

Coming into the tournament, a key debate centred around the expansion of the tournament and what that would mean for the quality of the teams. I believe the expansion of [...]

July 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

AFCON 2019: Observations from the group stages

by Tom Danicek and Salim Masoud Said The level of coaching has been abysmal The mind is inundated when thinking of who has been the worst coach of the tournament so far. And [...]

July 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Exclusive Interview | Himid Mao: “I believe we as players decided we would do something…We believed this was our chance.”

By Salim Masoud Said Himid Mao has been through it all with the Tanzania national team. He has, after all, played for the Tanzania in its entire national set up, in all age [...]

June 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Micho’s Mind: My sympathies go towards the countries where I have worked

Coaches have so far succeeded to keep the level of the form and interest on players that have played for long, gruelling seasons. Now players are in a position to look [...]

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Guinea-Bissau AFCON 2019 team guide: the lowdown, tactics and key players

Guinea-Bissau qualified from a pretty mediocre group with Namibia, Zambia and Mozambique. It was probably one of the more weaker groups in qualifying, if – given how [...]

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments