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  • EFA to choose foreign coach for national squad

    Date: 2014-12-23 18:35:04 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:159 - ID:1599625

    CAIRO, Dec 23 (MENA) - Board of Directors of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) decided Tuesday to choose a foreign coach of the first national team replacing Shawki Gharib who resigned in November after failing to qualify for the 2015 Africa ....

  • Cancer survivor Jonas Gutierrez to make long-awaited Newcastle return

    Date: 2014-12-22 15:43:31 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:93 - ID:1590605

    LONDON, Dec 22 (MENA) - Newcastle United's player Jonas Gutierrez will return to action for his team on Monday in an U21 game after successfully recovering from testicular cancer, the Express reported. The Argentine was diagnosed in 2013 and ....

  • Draw made for 2015 CAF Champions League

    Date: 2014-12-22 14:12:29 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:77 - ID:1589601

    CAIRO, Dec 22 (MENA) - The draw for the 19th edition of the CAF Champions League was made Monday at CAF headquarters in Cairo. A total of 58 clubs entered the Champions League draw. The two continental club championships get underway with ....

  • Algerian Olympic committee honors Egyptian coach

    Date: 2014-12-22 07:04:22 GMT - Algeria - Sports - SN:12 - ID:1586049

    ALGIERS, Dec 22 (MENA) - The Olympic committee of Algeria has held a ceremony in honor of the former coaches of the national teams of Algeria and Egypt. The committee bestowed orders of merit on Egypt's Hassan Shehata and Algeria's Rabeh Saadan in ....

  • Fans allowed to attend 2nd round of Egyptian premier league

    Date: 2014-12-21 15:01:43 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:66 - ID:1582681

    CAIRO, Dec 21 (MENA) - Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim agreed with Youths and Sports Khaled Abdel Aziz to allow fans to attend the second round of the Egyptian Premier League. 10,000 fans will attend every match either held in the stadium of ....

  • Boxing legend Muhammad Ali in hospital with pneumonia

    Date: 2014-12-21 07:30:27 GMT - USA - Sports - SN:10 - ID:1579041

    WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (MENA) - Former three-time heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali has been taken to hospital with a mild case of pneumonia, the BBC reported quoting his spokesman. Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is in a stable ....

  • Egypt cancels Arab Gymnastics championship

    Date: 2014-12-20 18:51:50 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:98 - ID:1577893

    CAIRO, Dec 20 (MENA) - Egypt has decided to cancel this year's Arab Gymnastics championship because only two states have agreed to partake. Tunisia, Morocco and Qatar had initially approved to take part but Tunis and Rabat apologized later, ....

  • Leicester manager banned for fan abuse

    Date: 2014-12-19 22:31:56 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:129 - ID:1572773

    LONDON, Dec 19 (MENA) - Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson has been given a one-game touchline ban and fined £10,000 for insulting a fan, the BBC reported. It comes after Pearson accepted a Football Association charge following an incident with a ....

  • Former France defender Éric Abidal retires due to personal reasons

    Date: 2014-12-19 13:24:30 GMT - Greece - Sports - SN:56 - ID:1570561

    ATHENS, Dec 19 (MENA) - Former French Defender Éric Abidal, who returned to playing after undergoing a liver transplant in April 2012, announced on Friday he was ending his career for personal reasons, The Guardian reported. Abidal, 35, made 67 ....

  • Zambia players injured, some 'fatalities' in minibus crash

    Date: 2014-12-15 15:11:39 GMT - Zambia - Sports - SN:110 - ID:1543121

    LUSAKA, Dec 15 (MENA) - A trio of leading Zambia players have been involved in a road accident, Euro Sport quoted the country's Football Association as saying on Monday. Nyambe Mulenga of Zesco United, Changwe Kalale of Power Dynamos and Satchmo ....

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