AllAfrica News: World Cup

The Namibia national women football team, the Brave Gladiators is currently on a two-week training camp in Germany.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize says an estimated R3 billion has been injected into the local economy following South Africa's successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Proprietors of Southern Sun Hotel in Lagos has defended the reason they did so much to bring the recently concluded World Cup Finals of South Africa 2010 to the Nigerian populace and have not followed that up with the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup going on right now in Germany; a tournament in which Nigeria's representatives, the Falconets, have been doing well.

RWANDA recorded their second win at the on-going ICC Africa U19 Division 2 World Cup qualifiers in Swaziland after yesterday's eight-wicket drubbing over Gambia at U-Tech cricket oval.

RWANDA shook off Tuesday's defeat against Nigeria by trouncing hosts Swaziland yesterday in the ICC Africa U19 Division 2 World Cup qualifiers.

GAUTENG bookmaker Lance Michael, like his UK counterparts in the World Cup, is offering a series of interesting alternative bets on Saturday's Vodacom Durban July at Greyville.

The Police's top brass have gathered in Mpumalanga to share ideas on how to fight crime and maintain the high policing standards achieved during the World Cup.

The Falconets beat the defending champions, USA 4-2 on penalties after both sides were tied on one goal either way at the end of 120 minutes of play.

The national embarrassment brought upon the nation by the dismal performance of its senior soccer team, the Super Eagles, at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is no doubt symptomatic of the general societal decay.

Egypitan army officer Essam Abd El Fatah, regarded as one of the world's top football referees, never wanted to be a referee as a young man because he regarded referees as unfailingly "unjust" in their decision making - particularly when he was playing.

When Falconets chief coach, Ndem Egan steps out with his wards against the USA in the quarter final match of the on-going FIFA U-20 Women World Cup in Augsburg, Germany today, he would be driven by the ambition to be the first Nigerian coach to guide the team beyond the quarter final stage.

Phew. Now that the Sepp Blatter circus has left town, we can all heave a huge sigh of relief and try and get our lives back to normal again.

The World Cup comes every four years. While some have the opportunity to play in the subsequent ones, others may not. We look at some of the big names that won't be in Brazil in four years' time.

Nigeria along with other four African countries - Algeria, Cote d' Ãévoire, Cameroon and host South Africa - crashed out of the 2010 World Cup in the group stage. Nigeria, in a relatively easy group that included Argentina, Greece and South Korea, could only manage a point; thereby placing last. In this interview with Group Sports Editor, Peter Edema , former British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent and now Editor of African Football, Osasu Obayiuwana, he said the performances of the African countries were horrible.