Johannesburg (AFP) – South African police on Monday arrested five suspects over the 2014 murder of national football captain Senzo Meyiwa, a major breakthrough in a case that stunned the crime-ridden nation. The 27-year-old goalkeeper and national squad captain was gunned down at the home of his pop-star girlfriend Kelly Khumalo, southeast of Johannesburg during […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – A letter has been sent to Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Ahmad Ahmad from 46 of the 54 member associations requesting him to run for a second four-year term. Philip Chiyangwa, president of southern African football body COSAFA, confirmed to AFP that a letter supporting Ahmad had been delivered to the former […]

Paris (AFP) – Real Madrid triumphed in the Clasico, Robert Lewandowski kept up his stunning form and Ajax recorded the biggest victory in the history of the Dutch top flight. AFP Sport rounds up some of the main talking points from the weekend's action across the continent: – Real take Clasico honours – Rarely in […]

London (AFP) – Manchester United's Paul Pogba said on Monday reports claiming he had retired from international duty in protest against French President Emmanuel Macron's comments about radical Islam were "fake news". According to reports in the Middle East picked up by British tabloid The Sun, World Cup winner Pogba wanted to end his international […]

Paris (AFP) – Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson praised Wilfried Zaha after the Ivory Coast winger scored his fifth goal in six English Premier League matches during a 2-1 win at Fulham. "Wilfried reminds us that when he is on top of his game, he is a very hard player to stop. He is an […]

Rome (AFP) – AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss the Serie A leaders' next three matches, the club said on Monday. Milan play Roma later on Monday and Donnarumma will also sit out Thursday's Europa League match against Sparta Prague and this weekend's game with Udinese. Young Norwegian […]

London (AFP) – Jose Mourinho has said his free-scoring Tottenham Hotspur side still have a long way to go in match the attacking threat of the celebrated Real Madrid team he guided to La Liga glory. Spurs have scored 31 goals in their last nine games in all competitions ahead of Monday's trip to Burnley […]

Madrid (AFP) – Real Madrid have released the pressure on Zinedine Zidane temporarily, with the next job to fix their dismal start in the Champions League. Madrid's 3-1 victory over Barcelona in the Clasico on Saturday swerved a third consecutive defeat after losses to Cadiz in La Liga and Shakhtar Donetsk. "There are always bad […]

Berlin (AFP) – Marcus Thuram is slowly emerging from his famous father's shadow, even if an incident last week in Milan suggested Borussia Moenchengladbach's French forward is not yet a household name everywhere. The 23-year-old son of 1998 World Cup winner Lilian Thuram is making a name in his own right in the Bundesliga and […]

Marseille (AFP) – Andre Villas-Boas loves Marseille and the French giants' supporters love him for ending their seven-year absence from the Champions League, in which they host Pep Guardiola's Manchester City this week. There was a once a time, a decade ago now, when "AVB" and Pep were the two most coveted coaches in Europe, […]

Paris (AFP) – Lyon continued their revival with another first-half spree on their way to thrashing Monaco 4-1 in Ligue 1 on Sunday but earlier Lille faltered and blew a chance to retake top spot, drawing at Nice. Lyon ended the eighth round of the French league season with an decisive home victory as Karl […]

London (AFP) – Brendan Rodgers saluted "world-class" Jamie Vardy after he sealed Leicester's late 1-0 win as spluttering Arsenal crashed to a third defeat in their last four Premier League games on Sunday. Vardy was only fit enough for the bench after a calf injury, but Foxes manager Rodgers sent the striker on with 30 […]

Milan (AFP) – Dejan Kulusevski came off the bench to rescue a point as champions Juventus, playing without Cristiano Ronaldo, were held to a third consecutive Serie A stalemate at home against Hellas Verona on Sunday. Portuguese forward Ronaldo remains absent after testing positive for coronavirus with Juventus preparing for next week's Champions League tie […]

London (AFP) – Brendan Rodgers saluted "world class" Jamie Vardy after he sealed Leicester's late 1-0 win as spluttering Arsenal crashed to a third defeat in their last four Premier League games on Sunday. Vardy was only fit enough for the bench after a calf injury, but Rodgers sent the striker on with 30 minutes […]

Johannesburg (AFP) – Defender Issoufou Dayo scored his first goal since September last year in the 2019/2020 CAF Confederation Cup to give Renaissance Berkane of Morocco a 1-0 win over Pyramids of Egypt in Sunday's final. His only previous effort came at home to Ashanti Gold of Ghana in a round-of-32 second leg and the […]