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| World Cup 2002 : Prelude | | Last Updated 03/06/2010 14:53:00 |
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 | 2010 FIFA World Cup matches to go live in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Most of the matches to be played at the 11 June t
o 11 July 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa will be broadcast live in Mauritiu
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, the managing director of the country's national television, Dhanjay Callikan,
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aid on Saturday.
29/05/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA addresses World Cup terrorism concerns | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Secretary General of world soccer's governing b
ody FIFA, Jerome Valcke, Wednesday downplayed reports of an al-Qaeda terror thre
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t against the 2010 World Cup, saying intelligence reports have indicated that it
was "just a bluff".
26/05/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA addresses WC 2010 terrorism concerns | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - FIFA on Thursday addressed 2010 World Cup secur
ity concerns, saying no terror threats had been uncovered by any of the intellig
e
nce agencies working with the governing body.
20/05/2010 full text... |
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| Zuma invites Jonathan to FIFA World Cup opener | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - South African President, Mr. Jacob Zuma, has formally invited President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria to attend the official opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup tournament which kicks off on 11 June, 2010, in South Africa.
17/05/2010 full text... |
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| Ex-Nigeria coach for 2010 FIFA World Cup | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's former head coach Shaibu Amodu has been includ
ed in the list of the Nigeria 32-member delegation to
the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the local press reported Thursday.
13/05/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA 'nearly withdrew World Cup' after attacks at CAN | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Police commissioner Bheki Cele said Friday that
world soccer's governing body, FIFA, came under enormous pressure to withdraw t
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e 2010 World Cup from South Africa, following the terror attack on the eve of th
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Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Angola in January.
07/05/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 Women's WC: SA protests against Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - South Africa has officially protested to African soccer's governing body, CAF, against
Nigeria for allegedly fielding over-aged players during the African qualifying series for the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's
World Cup, to be played in Trinidad and Tobago in September.
03/05/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010: Nigerian agency to build tourism village in SA | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With less than two months to the maiden FIFA World Cup f
inals in Africa (South Africa 2010), the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporatio
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(NTDC) has concluded arrangements to construct a Nigeria Tourism Village in Joh
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nnesburg, one of the host cities for the football fiesta, according to the NTDC
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irector-General, Olusegun Runsewe.
05/04/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 World Cup football in Lome | | Lomé, Togo (PANA) - The 2010 FIFA World Cup football is on display on Saturday
at an exhibition at the Circular Boulevard in the Togolese capital, Lome, as the
world football governing body rallies support for Africa's first World Cup.
03/04/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA outlines 2010 initiative to aid Haiti | | Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter Thursday confirmed
that he had written to the 32 member association
presidents, whose teams will compete at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, in o
rder to outline plans to help earthquake-stricken Haiti.
18/02/2010 full text... |
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| Tanzania moves to cash in on FIFA World Cup | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Trying hard to cash in on the FIFA World Cup fi
nals in South Africa in June, the Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB)
said Friday it would have over 100 delegates selling the country as a holiday de
stination at the forthcoming ITB Berlin Convention.
12/02/2010 full text... |
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| 2010 FIFA World Cup infrastructure drive SA chemicals market | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Despite the economic turmoil of 2009 and its pr
ofound impact on the global chemicals industry,
South Africaâ?s chemicals markets remained fairly robust, thanks to significant
investments in infrastructure leading up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, according
t
o international Growth Partnership Company Frost & Sullivan.
08/02/2010 full text... |
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| CAN 2010 leaves Nigeria nervous, says FIFA | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeriaâ?s role as one of African footballâ?s establis
hed super powers means there is inevitably a furious post mortem after their per
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ormances at a major tournament, according to stories in the FIFA website.
04/02/2010 full text... |
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| African leaders shift next summit for 2010 FIFA World Cup | | From Segun Adeyemi,
PANA Correspondent
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Africa leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
have agreed to push forward
their 2010 mid-year summit, due to be held in Kampala, Uganda, so it does not cl
ash with the 2010 FIFA World
Cup, the first to be held in Africa, PANA reported Tuesday.
02/02/2010 full text... |
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| AU may shift next summit over 2010 FIFA World Cup | | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sports and politics may mix, against
conventional wisdom, if the African Union (AU) goes ahead to shift the dates for
its June/July, mid-year Summit for 2010 to avoid a clash with the dates for the
2010 FIFA World Cup, the first to be held on the African soil.
01/02/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA sympathises with Togo over attack | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has expressed its "ut
most sympathy"
with the Togolese national team, after it was attacked by separatist rebels whil
e travelling in a bus convoy to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola from it
s
base in Republic of Congo on Friday.
09/01/2010 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 WC: 'Nigeria yet to be mobilized by FIFA' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said Tuesday it ha
d not received any funds from the World Football governing body, FIFA, towards t
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e preparation of the Super Eagles for the World Cup, to be hosted by South Afric
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in 2010.
15/12/2009 full text... |
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| 2010 FIFA WC: FIFA World Cup fever ignited with final draws | | Capte Town, South Africa (PANA) - The 32 teams participating in next year's FIFA
World Cup finals discovered their fate Friday evening when the Final Draw for S
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uth Africa 2010 took place in Cape Town, South Africa, according to the FIFA web
s
ite, www.fifa.com
An estimated global television audience of 200 million joined the 2,000 invited
guests in the Draw Hall in watching the colourful and entertaining ceremony unfo
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d.
04/12/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: State Security quizzes Nigerian LOC officials | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) began pro
bing how funds allocated for the just-ended FIFA Under-17 World Cup finals in Ni
g
eria was spent by the Local Organising Committee (LOC) when it questioned LOC Ch
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ef Executive Officer, Mainasara Illo, according to reports in the local media Su
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day.
22/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Nigeria media lament loss | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The disappointment of Nigerian fans with the country's 1
-0 loss to Switzerland in the final of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup
in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja was driven home Monday by local newspapers.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Nigeria dominates awards | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Golden Eaglets may have lost the 2009 FIFA Und
er-17 World Cup which rounded off here Sunday,
but the team dominated the awards given out by world soccer's governing body, FI
FA.
16/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Nigeria, Swiss coaches vow to win trophy | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The U-17 team coach of Nigeria, John Obuh and his Switze
rland counterpart, Dany Ryser, Saturday boasted that their teams will pick the c
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veted trophy on Sunday at the finals of the FIFA-organised championship between
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oth countries.
14/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 WC: Kenya coach shuns journalists | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's national football team coach, Antoine Hey, Frida
y in Nairobi, shunned interviews and even ordered security men to send out journ
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lists when they stormed the hotel he was lodged to interview him on the World Cu
p
qualifying match aginst the Super Eagles of Nigeria that would be played here S
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turday.
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| FIFA 2010 WC: Kenya coach shuns journalists (Corrected) | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's national football team coach, Antoine Hey, Frida
y in Nairobi, shunned interviews and even ordered security men to send out journ
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lists when they stormed his hotel to interview him on Saturday's World Cup quali
f
ying match against the Super Eagles of Nigeria.
14/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 WC: Kenya coach shuns journalists | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's national football team coach, Antoine Hey, Frida
y in Nairobi, shunned interviews and even ordered security men to send out journ
a
lists when they stormed the hotel he was lodged to interview him on the World Cu
p
qualifying match aginst the Super Eagles of Nigeria that would be played here o
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Sunday.
14/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 WC: Kenyan fans back Super Eagles | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Contrary to wide expectation that the Kenyan fans would
support their darling team, the Harambee Stars, to beat the Super Eagles of Nige
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ia in Saturdayâ?s all-important 2010 World Cup last qualifying match, some of th
e local fans have written of their team's chances of beating Nigeria.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA 2010 World Cup: Kenya ready for Super Eagles | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya, thirsting for sixth African Cup of Nations appear
ance , will leave nothing to chance when it takes on Nigeria in a Group 2 2010
F
IFA World Cup-cum-African Cup of Nations qualifier return-leg match here on Satu
r
day.
13/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA Goal Project commissioning excites ex-NFA boss | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Alh
aji Ibrahim Galadima, was full of praises to God for sparing his life to witness
the commissioning of the FIFA Goal Project which was initiated and completed by
h
is administration.
11/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: 'No sanction against Nigeria over pitch invasion' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - World soccer's governing body FIFA will not punish
Nigeria for the infraction committed by football fans who invaded the pitch
to celebrate Nigeria's 3-1 quarter-final victory over South Korea, at the
2009 FIFA Under-17 World Cup, last week, the local press reported Wednesday.
11/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: 'Spain will be a hard nut to crack' | | Calabar, Nigeria (PANA) - Fresh from a 3-1 quarter-final victory over South Kore
a Monday, host and defending champion Nigeria
is already looking forward to Thursday's semi-final clash against Spain at the o
ngoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup.
10/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Nigeria coach allays fears over injured midfielder | | Calabar, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Under-17 head coach John Obuh has allayed fe
ars that star midfielder Stanley Okoro, who was stretchered off the field during
the Nigerian team's quarter-final match against South Korea here Monday, will mi
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s the semi-final tie
against Spain on Thursday.
09/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Spain squeezes through to semi-finals | | Kaduna, Nigeria (PANA) - Spain made heavy work of beating 10-man Uruguay in thei
r quarter-final in Kaduna, losing a 3-1 lead and requiring a penalty shoot-out t
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finally book their place in the semi-finals of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria
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009, according to the latest information from the FIFA website.
09/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Nigeria tackles Korea | | Calabar, Nigeria (PANA) - The two remaining semi-final slots will be determined
Monday, when Nigeria takes on South Korea and Spain tackles Uruguay at the 2009
F
IFA Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria.
09/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: 'Nigeria determined to beat Korea' | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of Monday's quarter-final clash between
Nigeria and South Korea at the ongoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup in
Nigeria, an official of the host team has assured that it is in top
shape ahead of the match, scheduled for the southern coastal city of
Calabar.
08/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Colombia reaches semi-final | | Bauchi, Nigeria (PANA) - Colombia has become the first team to reach
the semi-final of the ongoing FIFA Under-17
World Cup in Nigeria, after dismissing hard-fighting Turkey 5-3 on
penalties Sunday in the northern city of Bauchi.
08/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Massive crowd watch Eaglets train in Calabar | | Calabar, Nigeria (PANA) - A massive crowd, never seen before in Calabar, South-S
outh Cross River State of Nigeria, turned out Saturday morning to watch the form
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dable Nigerian Golden Eaglets train in preparation for Monday's match against Ko
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ea in the quarter-finals of the ongoing FIFA under-17 World Cup finals.
07/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Viewing centre in Calabar for Nigeria-Korea match | | Calabar, Nigeria (PANA) - The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Calabar c
entre of the current FIFA Under-17 World Cup finals in Nigeria will set up a vie
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ing centre for fans to watch the Golden Eaglets match against Korea on 9 Novembe
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should the 10,247 capacity Calabar stadium prove insufficient for those wishing
to see the match.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Teams take two-day break | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The eight remaining teams at the ongoing FIFA Under-17 W
orld Cup in Nigeria were observing Friday and Saturday as rest days, before resu
m
ing action on Sunday in the quarter-finals.
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Poor outing for African teams | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With the ongoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Nigeria now
at the quarter-final stage, only one of the five African teams that came to the
t
ournament remains in contention, PANA reported Friday.
06/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Coach says trophy is Nigeria's target | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - John Obuh, coach of Nigeria's Under-17 national football
team, the Golden Eaglets, said Thursday his team was aiming to win the FIFA Und
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r-17 World Cup currently holding in Nigeria, after the team scored a comprehensi
v
e 5-0 victory over New Zealand to advance to
the quarter-final.
05/11/2009 full text... |
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| FIFA U-17 WC: Turkey coach promises UAE tough match | | Enugu, Nigeria (PANA) - Ahead of the second-round game against United Arab Emira
tes (UAE) at the current FIFA World Cup finals in Nigeria, Turkish coach, Ercan
A
bdullah, has predicted a tough match against the Arabians at the south-east Enug
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centre.
03/11/2009 full text... |
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