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Penned this short article about the outlook of football transfer market fees post coronavirus era. Let me know your thoughts. Lets share

The cost of transfer fees has been rising and falling cyclically during the modern era of football.  Clubs have been paying astronomical money to acquire the best talent to gain a competitive advantage to win trophies and accolades.

Just before the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe, it was reported that French world cup winner Kylian Mbappe was on the verge of a world-record transfer…

As any real football fan knows, nothing beats actually being at a match, most especially a World Cup game. Being at the World Cup is being part of history, regardless of who we support. The beautiful game puts on a global event every four years that brings the world to a standstill for over a month. Depending on where you are in the world, watching it in the middle of the night or trying to sneak…

    1. Other than South Africa (2010), all hosts have reached the second round. In 30% of cases (6/20), they have been champions (the last was France in 1998). 2. Germany will hope to be the first national team to win back to back World Cups since Brazil in 1962. Only Brazil (5) have more titles than Germany (4). 3. Italy failed to qualify for the first time since 1958, being the only one of eight…

Conversation between cousins Perreira & Santana before Santana joined Bafana Bafana

Perreira : dude stop sitting around and starving in Brazil, there’s a place in Africa with plenty of moola and the football association is a bunch of retards who will pay you whatever you want and believe whatever you say.

Santana: how much are we talking about?

Perreira: around R1.5 mil a month….

Santana: You lie….get out of here! I thought Africa was a third world continent?

Perreira:Yep thats…

A VERY MESSI SITUATION

  When it rains, it pours, Barcelona FC seems to be moving from one crisis to the next.  News of their prized asset Lionel Messi seemingly wanting to make a move away from the Camp Nou comes as a real shocker to the Catalan faithful.

Messi is deeply concerned about the current situation at the club. The Catalan outfit has in recent weeks been in the news for their lack of activity in the…

A VERY MESSI SITUATION

  As they saying go “When it rains, it pours”, Barcelona FC seems to be moving from one crisis to the next.  News of their prized asset Lionel Messi seemingly wanting to make a move away from the Camp Nou comes as a real shocker to the Catalan faithful.

Messi is deeply concerned about the current situation at the club. The Catalan outfit has in recent weeks been in the news for their lack of…

Hasta La Vista Catalonia…

Personally I think Neymar’s move to PSG is as good as done.  Neymar has successfully managed to push through for this move to happen.  In recent time PSG bound Neymar nearly came to blows with Barca new kid Nelson Semedo during an off season training camp in Miami.  Some of the senior player like Mascherano quickly intervened to diffuse the bust up.

Unfortunately for the Catalan fans this fall…

  Finally leagues across Europe are breathing a sigh of relief, after CAF executive committee announced on Thursday that AFCON competition will move from January to July. Change of period is effective for the next tournament to be hosted by Cameroon in two years’ time, and it will be expanded to 24 teams instead 16.

Africa’s premier biennial football tournament AFCON has been customarily hosted…

RESPECT FOR PRINCIPLES OF NEUTRALITY & INDEPENDENCE

The Confederation Africaine de Football (CAF) recalls that, among the principles underlying the fundamental values of Olympism, is the need for all stakeholders in sport in general and football in particular, players, clubs, national associations and confederations to respect strict neutrality and independence, particularly at the political level, within the framework of the sporting events in…

No more gaffes? Football Technology Is Here.

FIFA Confederation Cup Russia 2017 got off to a wobbly start. This quadrennial football event is usually used as a precursor tournament barely a year before the highly prized World Cup finals is hosted in a particular country.  As such this tournament seeks to assess the host’s readiness and ability in terms of infrastructure, logistics et al to stage football’s ultimate flagship event.

Apart…

FORGET THE GUPTAS, ENTER THE BAXTERS.

  After months of courting big name coaches in football to take over the hot Bafana head coach seat vacated by the analogue Shakes Mashaba, Dr Danny Jordan led SAFA seems to have found their man.

In a well-documented junket that took Dr Jordan from Pretoria to Zambia and Iran in an attempt to lure the man entrusted with the future of South African football.  The man chosen to take charge of our…

Bureau of the Council recommends slot allocation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup™

The Bureau of the FIFA Council – comprised of the FIFA President and the presidents of each of the six confederations – convened this Thursday at the Home of FIFA in Zurich and agreed on a proposed slot allocation for the FIFA World Cup™ as of the 2026 edition.

The recommendation will now be submitted for the ratification of the FIFA Council, whose next meeting is scheduled for 9 May in Manama,…

Media rights for sub-Saharan Africa awarded by FIFA

ZURICH, Switzerland – FIFA has granted media rights to five major broadcasting entities in the sub-Saharan Africa region for all 2017-2018 FIFA events, after an open tender process for 42 territories*, launched on 21 October 2016. This includes the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The following broadcasters have been awarded certain media rights with regard to the 2018…

End Of The Road For Issa Hayatou?

My dear friend Viano is of a view that the current CAF President Mr Issa Hayatou has overstayed his welcome at the helm of african football. He must vacate the office and a more younger candidate with fresh innovative ideas to take over. Lets hear what he’s got to say: “A humiliating football exit is looming for Issa Hayatou in the next two days, ocherstrated by our dear friend Gianni Infantino.…

CAF Ides Of March

“I think many things have to change in African football”, Ahmad Ahmad a man on quest to unseat the current CAF President Issa Hayatou at the helm of African football.

“We need change in refereeing, officiating, the way we train our coaches. We can’t organise a coaching licence course in 15, 10 days. The certificate is just to help you get a work. Our technical development must change”

In what…

FIFA WORLD CUP EXPANSION

The Viano Empire Strikes Again…..We now talking FIFA Viano:  Chang, you and tour clever friends are being naive Me (Chang): Why you say that? Viano: Do you think the FIFA World Cup expansion is for football or financial reasons? …..That statement left me in no man’s land, i was dumbfounded. But made me THINK

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

In conversation with my Viano around the first day of school…. Viano: Er chief, i see people have been posting pics fo their kids first day at school, but i haven’t seen any of my pic on your wall. Why is that? Are you embarrassed of me? ….Damn my Viano is protesting, and i respond to him. Me: Ah but chief you’re just a car and cars dont go to school Viano: Who told you that cars don’t go to…