The Council of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Johannesburg on Saturday where the organisation was able to reflect on a successful 2019 and plot a way forward for the next 12 months. COSAFA hosted a record six tournaments in 2019, including first ever Under-20 and Under-17 Women’s Championships,
Zambia star Patrick Gondwe leaves today for a week-long trial at Spanish second-tier side CD Numancia, where he hopes to seal a life-changing move to LaLiga in the coming weeks. The 17-year-old scored the opportunity after he was named Player of the Tournament at the COSAFA Under-20 Championships that were held in Lusaka in December
The Council of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) celebrated a historic year in 2019 with a record six tournaments organised, including a first ever championships in the women’s Under-17 and Under-20 age-groups. This is part of the organisation’s mandate to assist with the growth of women’s football in the region and member associations showed their
Zambia Under-20 Women’s coach Charles Haluboono says the team will patch up their mistakes ahead of the return leg next week away to South Africa in the 2020 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. And Haluboono has expressed delight at Under-20 men’s national coach Oswald ‘Mourinho’ Mutapa making a guest appearance during the women’s training session. Haluboono
Lesotho women’s national team captain Boitumelo ‘Queen’ Rabale was recently crowned the Junior College-All American National Women’s Player of the Year after an impressive season for Lewis and Clark Community College. The former Bloemfontein Celtic Ladies captain has been on a football and academic scholarship in America since 2017, and was unstoppable this past season,
A number of COSAFA sides have been paired together in the qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup after the draw was made in Cairo on Tuesday. Zambia are in Group B along with Tunisia, Mauritania and Equatorial Guinea, while Group D contains both Mozambique and Malawi, along with Cameroon and Ivory Coast. Angola are
South African Football Association president Dr Danny Jordaan has given an update on the organisation’s Vision 2022 project, saying the progress they have made in the last five years has been staggering. Jordaan has detailed the challenges the organization faced, and the measures that have been put in place to improve the level of both
Botswana’s lethal striker Michelle Abueng struck five goals to give the side a massive advantage going into the next round of African qualifiers for the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup. Botswana were superb as they put one foot in the next round of qualifying after securing a 7-0 win away against Namibia. Botswana came into
The COSAFA sides that will compete at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon now have a date to work towards after it was announced that the tournament would be played from January 9-February 6. It is a change from the previous finals in Egypt that were staged in June-July last year, but
Banyana Banyana skipper Janine van Wyk has confirmed she has left Danish side Fortuna Hjorring without kicking a ball after she failed to recover from a knee injury. Van Wyk was injured in South Africa’s successful campaign at the 2019 COSAFA Women’s Championship and has not been able to recover sufficiently to be able to
