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Algerian referee Djamel Haimoudi appointed as referee for third place match between Brazil and the Netherlands Algeria’s Djamel Haimoudi has been confirmed as the referee for match 63 of the FIFA World Cup™, the match for third place between Brazil and the Netherlands. During this tournament, the 4...

Sangare also argues that Diatta failed to play out the full four minutes of injury time, depriving them of the chance to score a late equaliser which could have qualified them for their first ever World Cup. Surprised that the Burkina Faso FA didn't bother actually re-watching the match to figure o...

SirV watch d match naaaa! Inquiring minds wanna know :lol: RB. What you need to know is that Algeria will be dancing to the beat of Samba in Rio :thumbs: the Algerian FA is a competent body and very professional, don't confuse us with the other banana countries :taunt: Why do you need to resort to ...

Sangare also argues that Diatta failed to play out the full four minutes of injury time, depriving them of the chance to score a late equaliser which could have qualified them for their first ever World Cup. Surprised that the Burkina Faso FA didn't bother actually re-watching the match to figure o...

Here's a good Wikipedia article on African participation at the World Cup :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_n ... _World_Cup

African teams usually do well in grade-age competitions, the problem is that it never carries over into senior competitions, where it really matters. It really highlights the lack of development and progression from youth to professional football. The talent is there, African FA's just need to ensur...

on that note which African team don chop (concede) the most goals in the WC? :smile: Not surprisingly, Cameroon, who has a record six World Cup appearances, has conceded the most number of goals in the WC, giving up 34 in 20 matches. However, if we look at the number of goals conceded per match, DR...

Not bad, not bad at all I'd imagine Pot 2,3,4 will be divided along continental lines...I can see Africa and Asia in the same pot No .. the 5 African teams will be in Pot C along with 2 South American sides (Chile, Ecuador) and one European team (Ukraine if the 4 seeded teams in the European playof...

Not bad, not bad at all I'd imagine Pot 2,3,4 will be divided along continental lines...I can see Africa and Asia in the same pot No .. the 5 African teams will be in Pot C along with 2 South American sides (Chile, Ecuador) and one European team (Ukraine if the 4 seeded teams in the European playof...

The ref of Burkina Faso-Algeria also gave a water break in the second half .. around the 78th minute mark if I remember correctly

Individual africans? Roger Mil ... Oh I see what you are trying to do hia. :sneaky: Ewu Bafoussam! I meant overall. I know Yekini has about three. Drogba, 4? Drogba only has 2 goals at the World Cup, one against Argentina in 2006 and one against Brazil in 2010 Roger Milla has 5 and is top African s...

Individual africans? Roger Mil ... Oh I see what you are trying to do hia. :sneaky: Ewu Bafoussam! I meant overall. I know Yekini has about three. Drogba, 4? Drogba only has 2 goals at the World Cup, one against Argentina in 2006 and one against Brazil in 2010 Roger Milla has 5 and is top African s...

Sunset wrote:Pitroipa was a lot more impressive than Bance, IMO.

anointed wrote:Nothing outstanding in Bance

Clearly whoever wrote the article did not watch the game, Pitroipa was by far the best player on the field on Saturday.

Making any excuses would just be silly. Ghana is obviously the superior team and the superior African rep in Brazil. Big thanks to Bob Bradley for everything he's done for us despite today's debacle. No manager in their right mind would have endured what he did in Egypt and we would have lost to Gh...

All 4 games were filled with passion and verve. Much better than the boring CONCACAF and CONMEBOL games we've been watching all these years. Impressive start for BEIN Sports and massive kudos to them for stepping outside their comfort zone. African football showed that for passion and color is seco...

Like I said, I thought it was a hand-ball .. it was just a question of whether it was inside or outside the box, so just one mistake not two

Nevertheless, I still think we're making too big of a deal over it

That ref is an utter disgrace.How the hell do you call a penalty when the player is holding both his hands behind his back and is outside the penalty area?That ref and his stupid assistant should be banned for life. We can all agree that it was a bad call but let's not exaggerate .. we have the ben...

Ivory Coast better hope that that last goal will not come back to haunt them. It's criminal to give up an away goal at the end of injury time when you're winning 3-0. They went from a guaranteed place in next year's World Cup to hoping they don't concede a quick goal in the return leg. I still expec...

paj wrote:how was my boy..Bertrand Traore..how did he tap?

Played last 15 minutes of the match, he didn't do much from what I can recall .. He tried a long distance shot that was easy for the keeper and I think that was about it

Traoré made his return to the line-up this season but got injured again last month .. he's out for 6-8 weeks so he might be back for the return leg

Burkina Faso coach Paul Put has announced his 24-man squad that will face Algeria next Saturday in the first leg of the third round of qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The Belgian coach did not make any major changes to his squad, keeping the majority of his group in tact. The only notable di...

He's already played a full competitive match for the English senior team. He's not eligible to represent Nigeria anymore.

Sir V wrote:Their team is solid.

Don't let the names of the clubs fool you, we're an average African team at the moment and a lot of players are not playing regularly for their clubs. Nevertheless, I still think we're slight favourites to advance against Burkina Faso, especially with the return leg at home.