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| DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Hundreds of soccer fans have attended the funeral of Jule Francois Bocande at the national cathedral in Dakar to pay tribute to the Senegal great, who died in France last week at 53. |
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| DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Senegal has hired Frenchman Pierre Lechantre as its national soccer coach. |
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Newcastle's January signing Papiss Demba Cisse has been a revelation for the club, scoring nine goals in his first eight matches. According to Opta Sports , his current rate of scoring a goal every 66 minutes he plays is the best in Premier League history. But who is this man who cost Newcastle a relatively meager £9 million? Here is all the information we assume to be true about him.
-He was conceived and immediately birthed after his parents scored a match winning goal with a rare male-female tandem bicycle kick in Dakar, Senegal on June 3 of 1986.
-As a child, he realized that the moon looks a lot like a football and decided that one day he would score a goal with it. Unfortunately, NASA has denied his many requests to build a goal large enough to accomplish this. As a result, he got their funding systematically reduced.
-At the age of 20, Cisse joined French side Metz. In four years with the club, he was loaned out twice because they were too afraid of his goal scoring ability.
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| Morocco became the first team to beat Senegal in Dakar in a decade and South Africa continued its revival under coach Pitso Mosimane in international friendlies across Africa on Wednesday. Surprise African Cup of Nations qualifier Botswana extended its unbeaten run to seven games with a 1-0 victory over Kenya. |
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| Morocco captain Houssine Kharja and striker Youssef El-Arabi scored first-half goals in a 2-0 win over Senegal in an international friendly on Wednesday, inflicting the home team's first defeat in Dakar in a decade. Kharja put the Moroccans ahead in the eighth minute and El-Arabi struck in the 25th for a surprise win for the north African country at Leopold Songhor stadium. |
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| Senegal show class in Dakar to lead Group E with nine points that put Cameroon’s chances in serious . |
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| Draw for the African
Champions League second round:
Al Ittihad (Libya) v ASFAN (Niger) or Jeunesse Club (Ivory
Coast)
US Bitam (Gabon) or Astres Douala (Cameroon) v Enyimba
(Nigeria)
Dynamos (Zimbabwe) v Mouloudia Alger (Algeria)
Al Merreikh (Sudan) v InterClube (Angola)
Diaraf Dakar (Senegal) v East End Lions (Sierra Leone) or
Djoliba (Mali)
Esperance (Tunisia) v ASPAC FC (Benin)
Motor Action (Zimbabwe) v ASEC Abidjan (Ivory Coast) or ASC
SNIM (Mauritania)
Stade Malien (Mali) v Raja Casablanca (Morocco)
APR FC (Rwanda) or Club Africain (Tunisia) v Ulinzi (Kenya) or
Zamalek (Egypt)
Al Hilal (Sudan) v Recreativo Caala (Angola)
TP Mazembe (DR Congo, holders) v Simba SC (Tanzania)
Wydad Casablanca (Morocco) or Aduana Stars (Ghana) v Kano
Pillars (Nigeria)
Entente Setif (Algeria) v ASFA Yennega (Burkina Faso)
Ocean View (Zanzibar) or AS V Club (DR Congo) v Vital'O
(Burundi) or Coton Sport (Cameroon)
Al Ahli (Egypt) v SuperSport United (South Africa)
Zesco United (Zambia) v Young Buffaloes (Swaziland)
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| The Dakar-born forward has committed himself to the club for another three seasons... |
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| The Porcupine Warriors are departing Accra tomorrow for Dakar ahead of the weekend game… |
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| Haitian-born Johnny Exantus and Rutgers sophomore Dilly Duka have been with the Red Bulls in preparation for the U-20 World Cup later this year and auditioning for a future spot in the MLS. |
