Seoul- Korea (PANA) -- Senegalese footballer, El-hadji Diouf sealed a 17-million-dollar contract Friday to play for British premier League club Liverpool next season. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The sale of musical cassettes dedicated to the Senegalese football squad, the Lions of Teranga, have reached its peak, the president of the board of directors of the Senegalese Royalties Office (BSDA), Aziz Dieng, told PANA. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade was acclaimed in front of the State House in Dakar Friday by thousands of jubilant supporters minutes after the Senegalese national team pulled a 1- 0 victory over France in the opening match at the 2002 World Cup finals in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwean soccer fans leapt in celebration Friday at Senegal's stunning 1-0 victory over France in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup finals in South Korea. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- President Abdoulaye Wade, who joined jubilating crowds in Dakar after the victory of Senegal over France, averred Friday that he had all along seen his country winning the opening match of the 2002 World Cup finals in Seoul. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- Senegal's 1-0 victory over France at the opening match of the World Cup Friday brought spontaneous jubilation in Burkina Faso, with soccer fans hailing the feat as an African success. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Senegal's 1-0 victory over France at the opening match of the 2002 World Cup finals played Friday in Seoul was greeted with scenes of joy in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritians Friday hailed Senegal's 1-0 victory over world champions France, in their 2002 World Cup opening match in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Thousands of Senegalese stormed the streets of Dakar and its suburbs to celebrate their team's 1-0 victory over France, the world football champions, during the opening match of the 2002 World Cup finals in Seoul. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian soccer fans Friday praised Senegal for defeating World champions France 1-0 in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup tournament. Full text...

Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- Ousmane Diop, a Senegalese national based in Bujumbura could not hold his tears Friday during a sports television panel after his national team stunned France, the World Cup holders with a 1-0 victory in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Soccer fans stormed the streets in the Libyan capital Friday to celebrate Senegal's 1-0 victory over defending champions France at the 2002 World Cup opening match in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Nairobi residents shouted El Hadj Diouf's name following his clever cross that caused Senegal's 1-0 victory over France in the opening match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in Seoul, South Korea Friday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Soccer fans in Brazzaville on Friday widely applauded Senegal's 1-0 victory over France, the defending World Cup champions in the opening match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in Seoul, Southern Korea. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- Hundreds of Liberians rejoiced Friday as Senegal trounced defending World Cup Champions, France, 1-0 in the opening match of World Cup 2002. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Twelve years after the Cameroonian Indomitable Lions defeated Argentina in a World Cup opening match, Senegalese Lions Friday repeated a similar feat beating defending champions France at the opening game of the 2002 World Cup in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian soccer fans Friday reacted with excitement and happiness following Senegal's 1-0 victory over defending champion France in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Football fever has gripped South Africa ahead of the country's opening World Cup match against Paraguay on Sunday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese soccer fans went agog Friday in Dakar after their national team beat France, the 1998 FIFA World Cup champions with a single goal in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Senegal turned the tables against France, the World soccer champions in Seoul Friday with a 1-0 victory in the opening match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in the South Korean capital. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal surprised world soccer champions France when it led 1-0 at half time in the opening match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Chris Caspa and Emmanuel Maboang are Cameroonians. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Don't touch: The wives and girlfriends of players in the French Football team have arrived in Seoul since Wednesday. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Coach Bruno Metsu of the Senegalese national team will have to manage without Sylvain Ndiaye (Lille, D1 France) and Oumar Diallo (Khourigba, D1 Morocco) who were injured during preparatory games. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Here are the possible line-ups of France and Senegal for the World Cup 2002 opening match slated for Friday beginning 11h30 GMT (20h30 local time) at Seoul World Cup Stadium. Full text...

Saint Denis- Reunion (PANA) -- Olympique de Marseille striker Lamine Sakho of Senegalese descent reckons that in years to come his country would be the leading football nation in Africa. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe football officials, eager to qualify for the African Cup of Nations finals after 22 years of trying, Thursday announced a series of international friendly matches to prepare the country's national team for their first qualifying game against Mali in September. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Many African immigrants in France expressed disappointment on Wednesday following the failed bid of Cameroon's Issa Hayatou for the presidency of the world football governing body FIFA. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The 2001 World Athlete of the Year Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and US sprinter Marion Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Olympic Games, have signed up to contest all seven meetings of this year's IAAF Golden League. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Cameroon's former goalkeeper Joseph Antoine Bell said in Seoul, South Korea that his compatriot and CAF President Issa Hayatou's loss in the FIFA presidency race was not a defeat for Africa. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The second Annual Cold Water Endurance Swim from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand takes place on Saturday to raise funds for the Vista Nova School for Cerebral Palsied and Learning Disabled Children in Cape Town. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- African football stars Abédi Pelé and George Weah, currently in Seoul for on-the-spot accounts of World Cup 2002, quickly expressed complete satisfaction following the re-election of Sepp Blatter on Wednesday as president of FIFA. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- There continued to be mix reactions on Thursday in Liberia, ranging from concurrence to charges of racism, over the re-election of FIFA President Josep Sepp Blatter. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Football administrators, analysts, coaches and fans in Ghana have expressed no surprise about the re- election of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president. Full text...

Cairo- Egypt (PANA) -- An Egyptian opposition paper on Thursday criticised the country's Football Federation for backing Issa Hayatou, president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in his bid to head FIFA instead of "the incumbent and winner," Sepp Blatter. Full text...

Seoul- South Korea (PANA) -- Senegal's national football team was in a determined mood Thursday as the players waited to kick off the 2002 World Cup tournament against France. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's national football team coach Jomo Sono has said he will name the Bafana Bafana side which will play against Paraguay a day before Sunday's first Group B World Cup game. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The reappointment of Joseph Sepp Blatter as President of FIFA has been welcomed in South Africa which hopes to host the 2010 World Cup. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyans have welcomed the re-election of Joseph Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, saying he is the right man for the job. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- For the past several months lovers of the world's most popular sport, football, have been torn between the devil and the deep blue sea. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- US tennis star Serena Williams, number three seed at the Roland Garros tennis tournament in France, distinguished herself Wednesday during her first qualifying match for the second round by sporting a dress with Cameroon's national colours. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Ivorian football clubs will on 1 June play the 16th finals of the Challenge Cup, state television announced Tuesday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Christian Gourcuff, former coach of French D1 club Rennes, has turned down an offer from the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) to train the national football team. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- A senior Zimbabwe football official Wednesday welcomed the re-election of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, saying this was good for the development of football on the continent. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Two days ahead of the opening match of the 2002 World Cup, pitting cupholder France against newcomer Senegal, predictions are flying around in Dakar where football fans say their team will give "hell" to the Frenchmen. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroonians were in shock Wednesday over the re-election of FIFA President Joseph Blatter, at the expense of their compatriot and CAF President Issa Hayatou, during FIFA's 53rd Congress in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- This year's International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Golden League series will start with the 26 June Exxon Bislett Games in Oslo, Finland. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Soccer fans and TV watchers in Zambia have won a windfall ahead of the opening game of the World Cup tournament on Friday in Seoul, South Korea. Full text...

Niigata- Japan (PANA) -- Former ace Cameroonian goalkeeper Thomas Nkono, currently the "Indomitable Lions" assistant coach, has stressed the importance of a victory during his national football team's first World Cup match against Ireland on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerians Wednesday hailed the re-election of FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter saying it would further boost the development of African football. Full text...