Mohamed Salah will be unavailable for Liverpool’s Premier League game with Burnley as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury he suffered while on international duty with Egypt at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The 31-year-old picked up the injury in the first half of the Pharaohs’ 2-2 Group B draw with Ghana and missed the rest of the tournament as the seven-time AFCON...
Former Ivory Coast coach Jean-Louis Gasset has tipped Nigeria as favourites to lift the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations ahead of the Elephants. Gasset led Ivory Coast into the tournament but he left his position as head coach after the country's poor run of results in the group stage. The French coach was replaced by his assistant, Emerse Fae who has steered the Elephants into the...
Three Nigerians have been confirmed dead while watching the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final game between Nigeria and South Africa on Wednesday. An Igbo businessman identified as Chief Osondu ‘Angus’ Nwoye slumped inside the Stade de la Paix in Bouake after South Africa scored a late penalty on the stroke of full-time to force the game into extra-time. A politician named Cairo Ojougboh who previously...
French coach Jean-Louis Gasset will not be getting any medal for Ivory Coast's success at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The competitions department of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), confirmed that the mutual termination of Gasset's contract in the group stage will not allow him to add to his list of coaching achievements. Gasset led the Elephants into the tournament that's been staged on...
Ivory Coast's interim head coach Emerse Fae has explained his strategy to restore the players' belief after their poor run of results in the group stage. The host country were on the verge of exit but advanced into the knock-out stage as one of the third-best placed teams after grabbing three points from three group matches. Their disappointing results led to the sack of French coach...
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