Think about not seeing eagles again. Think of the falcons and the little falconets. Think of how the wasps could be the biggest beneficiaries.

Yes, this is still a football story.

FIFA's suspension of Nigeria from all international football last week because of alleged government interference c...

Africa's World Cup is over. It did not end as the continent would have liked, without the results it had hoped for and with no new ground broken. In fact, old ground wasn't even covered as none of the five African teams that entered the tournament will feature in the quarterfinals.

Given the huge im...

If Gervinho's boots could talk they would have had something interesting to say last Thursday, when their owner danced his way through the Colombia defence and scored Ivory Coast's only goal. But then ever since a young Gervais Yao Kouassi joined the ASEC Mimosa youth academy -- the nurturing ground...

Andre Ayew sat through the prematch news conference ahead of Ghana's clash with Germany and exuded a lot of confidence. The son of legendary Abedi Pele, always fired up and incredibly passionate, was the sort of player Ghanaians needed to hear from before such a critical encounter.

"What I can tell ...

When cracks appear in solid foundations, you can either fix the problem or paper over it, hiding what lies beneath. Applied to the Ivory Coast, two skilled tradesmen are doing the latter to mask the team's ills, as if everything is fine. Step forward, Serey Die and Cheick Tiote.

The pair play a v...

Walking in the footsteps of a giant takes one of two things: very big feet or a very big heart. Luckily for Andre Ayew, he has both.

Ayew is the second son of the man widely recognised as Ghana's -- and perhaps even Africa's -- greatest player ever, Abedi Pele. His talent had to be nurtured in the s...