South Sudan has been admitted as a member of the Confederation of African Football, becoming the world's newest footballing nation. Africa's football body accepted the application by the South Sudan Football Association to become its 54th member, meaning South Sudan is now recognized as an international team.

The soap opera of England's national team reached yet another a noisy climax Wednesday when coach Fabio Capello quit angrily just eight hours after potential successor Harry Redknapp was cleared in a London court of tax evasion charges. Only four months before the European Championship, Capello's employers stripped John Terry of the England captaincy over racism charges without consulting...