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SENEGAL – African Gold Ball – The Bavarian summer flagship rookie, Sadio Mané, boot Mo
Salah and E. Mendy touch! And give themselves a double. Nice hat! This Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Rabat, Morocco, during its annual African football mass, the CAF, Confédération Africaine de Football, awarded numerous distinctions to the best footballers of the African continent. A question was on everyone’s lips: Who will raise for this edition the trophy of this year’s (male) African gold ball? On the women’s side, however, there was really no match: the trophy went back to Nigerian player Asisat Oshoala for the fifth time.
It felt like an ultra-powerful strike from the outside of a heavy right foot in the room. We didn’t really expect that. However, we suspected that the winner would come from the Liverpool Red team. In Liverpool, there are two African players who are in great shape. One Red was going to have to tackle another in the big hall. Hell of a duel. To everyone’s surprise, the trophy of the ball was awarded to the striker of the Senegalese national football team, to the “Lion de la Teranga”, Sadio Mané: the former striker of Liverpool. At the expense of Mohamed Salah and Edouard Mendy. This is the second time in a row that Sadio Mané has won this prestigious trophy, which rewards the best African footballer of the moment. However, he is still far from the two recordmen of this trophy: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) and Yaya Touré (Ivory Coast).
This season looks good for the CAN 2022 African champion who joins the German club, Bayern Munich. Cost of transfer: 32 million euros. Number of seasons: 3. In football today the amount of this transfer is not really stratospheric, but for a player of the calibre of Sadio Mané (who won everything from a Champions League, a Premier League, two national cups, a European Supercoupe and a Club World Cup, CAN 2022), it’s cheap.
Teranga, king of Africa
This year, the lions of the teranga have taken the lion’s share. The footballers of the Senegalese national team have the wind in their sails; they have won a large part of the trophies. In just a few years, footballers have turned the tide. They are indisputable starters in their various clubs. Every breeder dreams of having a “teranga lion” in his staff. Known to be real lions, they are generous in effort. This year, we only talked about them: From Aliou Cissé (best coach) to Pape Matar (best hope).
With Robert Lewandowski who has just joined the Catalan club, Sadio Mané, no longer in the shadow of the Egyptian pharaoh, Mohamed Salah, he can now nurture solid ambitions: to be the true Meister of a great world class team.
The African Football Confederation (CAF) has just unveiled the emblem and the official poster of the Women’s African Nations Cup TotalEnergies, Morocco 2024. A symbolic launch that embodies the renewal and growing ambition of women’s football in Africa.
This is a new milestone for African women’s football. This Wednesday, JUNE 11, 2025, the CAF revealed the visual identity of the Women’s African Nations Cup TotalEnergies, which will be held in Morocco from July 5 to 26, 2025. Through this modern and powerful emblem, the CAF intends to reflect the growing prestige of the tournament, while paying tribute to the cultural richness of the host country, Morocco, and the diversity of women’s football on the continent.
Morocco, the host country of the previous edition in 2022, had already made an impression by hosting a high-caliber competition, crowned by record attendance and an internationally acclaimed organization. The 2025 edition therefore promises to take things up a notch, both in terms of sports and media.
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Yamoussoukro, December 26, 2023- After an impregnation visit of the Charles Konan-Banny stadium in Yamoussoukro, Tuesday, December 26, 2023, the Prime Minister, Minister of Sport and Living Environment, Robert Beugré Mambé, said reassured. The stadium, he said, is ready to host Group C matches from Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and The Gambia.
‘What we have seen is reassuring. Technically, from the equipment point of view, we are ready at the Yamoussoukro stadium. But we will remain vigilant until the end,” said Robert Beugré Mambé.
The Prime Minister called for on-call teams to be set up in all sectors. We will have specialists permanently because Côte d’Ivoire wants to be up to date, in all circumstances, with the expected benefits of this great country. We have given indications that vigilance is needed,’ insisted the Head of Government.
For this visit, which is part of the visits of infrastructure related to the CAN 2023, the Vice-President of the Republic, Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, accompanied by the Prime Minister and other members of the government, visited the host infrastructure, in particular the President’s Hotel where official delegations will stay.
CAN 2023 is scheduled from January 13 to February 11, 2024 in Côte d’Ivoire with 24 teams.
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CÔTE D’IVOIRE – Partenariat: La FIF et le Groupe Carré D’Or ensemble pour la promotion du football Ivoirien
La Fédération Ivoirienne de Football (FIF) et le Groupe Carré D’Or ont conclu, ce vendredi 8 décembre 2023 à Novotel Plateau, un accord de partenariat en vue du développement du football en Côte d’Ivoire.
Leader de l’agro-industrie en Côte d’Ivoire depuis la fin des années 90, le Groupe Carré D’Or vient de s’ajouter à la liste des entreprises citoyennes partenaires de la Fédération Ivoirienne de Football (FIF) dans sa mission de développer le football en Côte d’Ivoire. Ce vendredi en effet, à Novotel Plateau, son Directeur Exécutif M. Khalil Ezzedine et le Président de la FIF M. Yacine Idriss Diallo, ont paraphé devant une parterre d’invité constitué de chefs d’entreprises, de légendes du football Ivoirien, de dirigeants sportifs et des médias, un accord de partenariat.
« Au Groupe Carré D’Or, nous avons une politique sportive très développée. Depuis plusieurs années en effet, nous partageons notre passion du port avec les Ivoiriens, sur le plan organisationnel et du sponsoring. Pour nous, sceller un partenariat avec la FIF un fait naturel. Nous sommes donc heureux de soutenir les Éléphants et dans le même temps le championnat national. C’est un réel plaisir de nous associer à la FIF dans sa mission de développement du football en Côte d’Ivoire et à participer à l’encadrement de la jeunesse Ivoirienne », explique le patron du Groupe Carré d’Or.
Pour sa part, le Président de la FIF, M. Yacine Idriss Diallo s’est réjouit de cette union avec le Groupe Carré d’Or.« Notre mission est d’encadrer la jeunesse à travers la mise en place d’une organisation efficiente pour que le football ivoirien aille de l’avant. Et donc dans cette mission là, avoir à ses côtés des entreprises symboliques comme le Groupe Carré d’Or est une fierté et une grande joie pour nous. Nous allons faire tout pour que ce partenariat soit de qualité, qu’il soit gagnant-gagnant sur l’ensemble des produits qui vont être utilisés. Le Groupe Carré d’Or sera donc à nos côtés en partie avec les Éléphants mais aussi sur la Ligue 1 et d’autres activités de la fédération. C’est donc une grosse satisfaction pour nous », reconnaît le Président de la Fédération Ivoirienne de Football.
