Olympics: Three Month Countdown
The 2016 Olympic football tournament will kick off in three months on August 4th, when South Africa take on hosts Brazil in Brasilia. While European attention may be drifting [...]
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U-20 World Cup 2015 Preview: Senegal
Jimmy Aidoo continues his series of previews on the African teams at the U-20 World Cup in New Zealand, profiling Les Lionceaux of Senegal. SENEGAL – CAF runners-up In [...]
2014 World Cup Review: Japan
Sandals For Goalposts begins its World Cup post-mortem with an analysis of the African and Asian teams’ performances at the World Cup. First up, Martin Lowe casts his [...]
Japan 1-4 Colombia: Winless Samurai Blue crash out of the World Cup
“Don’t believe the hype” – a lesson often adhered to only in hindsight. Japan came into this tournament with a swell of fans expecting free flowing high scoring [...]
Ivory Coast 1-2 Colombia: Les Elephants no longer secure
Ivory Coast were outmuscled, outthought and outplayed by Colombia in Brasilia An underwhelming display by Ivory Coast against Colombia, and a bore draw for Japan and Greece [...]
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