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  • Nigeria suspended from international football by Fifa

    Date: 2014-07-09 18:27:10 GMT - Nigeria - Sports - SN:125 - ID:819838

    ABUJA, July 9 (MENA) - Nigeria has been suspended from all international football by Fifa amid allegations of government interference in its football federation, the BBC reported Wednesday. The ban means no Nigerian team - including club sides - ....

  • National team flies to Addis Ababa for African championship

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:04:44 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:103 - ID:819536

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - A team representing Egyptian universities left here Wednesday for Ethiopia to partake in an African championship for individual sports. The team, under Mohamed Taher, comprises 38 players. (MENA) MI/SR ....

  • Ahly win Egypt's Premier League

    Date: 2014-07-07 21:52:23 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:169 - ID:816693

    CAIRO, July 7 (MENA) - Al-Ahly football club have been crowned Egyptian champions for the eighth consecutive season. The red devils held to a goalless draw with Smouha of Alexandria, wining the first completed season since 2011. Ahly have a ....

  • Talaat Youssef to officially become Ittihad coach

    Date: 2014-07-07 20:04:53 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:156 - ID:816584

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 7 (MENA) - Talaat Youssef is to officially take over as the coach of Ittihad of Alexandria Club during the coming season. The Alexandria-based club was established in 1906, and has won the Egypt Cup six times. They have ....

  • Novak Djokovic wins Wimbledon 2014 after beating Roger Federer

    Date: 2014-07-06 17:53:45 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:108 - ID:814628

    LONDON, July 6 (MENA) - Novak Djokovic ended Roger Federer’s hopes of a record-breaking eighth Wimbledon title on Sunday as he edged out the Swiss with a 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 victory to claim the title for a second time, The Guardian ....

  • Petra Kvitova thrashes Eugenie Bouchard final in Wimbledon

    Date: 2014-07-05 14:56:13 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:67 - ID:812901

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - Petra Kvitova swept past Canada's Eugenie Bouchard with a stunning performance of controlled power to win her second Wimbledon title, the BBC Sport reported. The Czech sixth seed reclaimed the title she first won in 2011 ....

  • Colombia gives workers time off to watch World Cup match

    Date: 2014-07-03 15:23:18 GMT - Colombia - Sports - SN:107 - ID:810002

    BOGOTA, July 3 (MENA) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has given government workers Friday afternoon off to watch the national team play Brazil in the quarter-finals of the football World Cup. The president will fly to Brazil to watch the ....

  • Egypt, Palestine youth ministers discuss ways of boosting mutual cooperation

    Date: 2014-07-03 11:58:13 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:53 - ID:809631

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) – Egypt's Youth Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz and his Palestinian counterpart Jibril Rajoub, who currently visits Egypt, have discussed ways of fostering the bilateral cooperation in the fields of youth and sports during the ....

  • PM to honor Egyptian players for winning African Youth Games

    Date: 2014-07-01 13:26:28 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:53 - ID:806657

    CAIRO, July 1 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, Youth and Sports Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz, and Olympic Committee President Khaled Zein are scheduled Wednesday to honor Egyptian players who won 2014 African Youth Games in Botswana. Egypt's ....

  • Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi resigns after world cup xit

    Date: 2014-07-01 07:19:12 GMT - Nigeria - Sports - SN:6 - ID:805923

    ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has stepped down from his position after the Super Eagles' exit from the World Cup in Brazil, BBC Sport reported. France scored twice in the last 11 minutes in Brasilia on Monday to reach the ....

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