ACCRA (AFM) - Last year Sellas Tetteh became the first African to coach a team to glory at the FIFA U-20 World Cup when he took Ghana's Black Satellites to the title in Egypt. Before that he helped the respected Black Stars on their way to the 2010 World Cup. And now he is gearing up to help Rwanda become a force in East Africa.
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LAGOS (AFM) - Lars Lagerback is Nigeria’s 23rd expatriate coach since Englishman John Finch in 1949, but he is the first Scandinavian to handle the Super Eagles. The former Sweden national team manager talks with AFM about his new hot seat, picking the right players, the future of Nwankwo Kanu and whether a spot in the World Cup semi-finals is possible.
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WASHINGTON DC (AFM) - Though three-time World Cup winner Pele famously predicted in the late 70s that an African team would win the World Cup by the end of the 20th Century, many observers were taken aback recently when his namesake, Ghana great Abedi ‘Pele’ Ayew, said that an African side would do just that next summer on the ‘home continent’ in South Africa.
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WASHINGTON DC (AFM) - After a fortnight of action and the completion of the group stage, the African Cup of Nations in Angola has certainly, if not all that surprisingly, been peculiar. If the start to what some have called the ‘Year of Africa’ is representative, then 2010 figures to be an erratic celebration of football and life.
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LONDON (AFM) - At any given moment there are names floating through the heads and across the desks of the managers of major European clubs; hot young prospects poised in their relative obscurity but on the cusp of a big breakthrough. The name of Ghanaian Anthony Annan is at the top of those lists.
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