Morocco and South Africa have been awarded the hosting rights to the 2015 and 2017 African Cup of Nations football tournaments.
The Confederation of African Football’s executive committee met in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday to announce the hosting rights to the countries at either end of the continent.
Morocco and South Africa were the sole remaining bids to secure the rights for the respective tournaments after DR Congo withdrew their bid.
South African Football Association president Kirsten Nematandani said despite missing out on the rights to host in four years’ time, the Bafana Bafana can now use the extra two years to prepare themselves for a shot at the illustrious title.
“We are not disappointed at all (at missing out on 2015 hosting rights), it gives us more time to prepare our national team for the event. This time we also want to win it on home soil,” Nematandani said.
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The 2012 Cup finals will be hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, before the 2013 event will see the best footballers in Africa travel to Libya.
The dawning of a new day has arrived folks, Liverpool have a bright young, dynamic manager at the helm in 39 year-old Brendan Rodgers and a cast-iron identifiable ‘philosophy’ to get behind. Cautious optimism has spread through the halls of Anfield these past few weeks, which means it could be the perfect time for the club to loan out some of its bright young things.
Liverpool have become somewhat well-known in recent times for failing to bring youth-team players through into the first-team set-up, which led to a radical overhaul from top-to-bottom by previous manager Rafa Benitez of the club’s failing academy. Only now is it starting to pay dividends and the club has an exciting young crop of talent coming through the ranks in the likes of Suso, Raheem Sterling and Connor Coady, but the club should really consider utilising the loan system to their benefit a lot more in the coming months.
Manchester United have benefited hugely from using the loan market the past couple of years, with both Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley going away on respective season-long loan deals to Sunderland and Wigan before coming back and staking their claim for a place in the starting eleven.
The impact that regular first-team football in the Premier League has had on them has been huge; they’ve matured, become more technically proficient, while adapting to the rigours of the top flight in the process. Nobody is for one minute suggesting that the likes of Sterling and Suso are going to walk into a Premier League club this season, that’s obviously setting your sights way too high far too soon, but a gradual progression up the leagues has to be explored.
Cleverley for example, enjoyed loan spells first at Leicester and then a breakthrough year at Watford as a hard-working and creative right midfielder before he secured his chance with Wigan – proving yourself somewhere first then taking your chance when you make the step up is what it’s all about.
Liverpool could be found guilty of not cherry-picking the right clubs with the same footballing culture for their youth-team players to go out on loan to in the past, the result being that the young players development is stunted by a lack of first-team opportunities. For instance, Ghanaian Godwin Antwi had four loan spells in two years, Craig Lindfield also had four loan moves in two years while Robbie Threlfall was shunted out to Hereford for two years running despite making just 12 appearances altogether. Clearly not enough care was taken in the past, rather a ‘well we’ve got to get them out there in the lower leagues, so they’ll do’ attitude.
It’s not that the quality isn’t there either – Tom Ince, Paul Anderson, Adam Hammill, Lee Peltier, Mikel San Jose, Zak Whitbread and Jack Hobbs have all made it elsewhere in recent times. They may not be of sufficient enough quality in some cases to have become a regular starter, but they’re of Championship quality in most cases, and are they really any worse than the likes of Phillip Degen, Antonio Nunez and Gabriel Palletta? Players brought in at far more expense from across the world to plug squad gaps.
There should be an established system whereby the club’s young talent is loaned out between the ages of 18-20 at clubs which will guarantee them first-team football, if they won’t, then what’s the point sending them there in the first place? They could gain experience of not playing back at the club, confined to reserve-team football, but at least learning from the same training methods that the new manager wants the entire club to play with.
The Liverpool academy clearly doesn’t have the same currency of status as either Manchester United’s or Arsenal’s, and the fact that the club’s youth-team players aren’t courted by the same level of lower tier clubs is worth drawing attention to, but that doesn’t mean that they should compromise the player’s footballing education by simply loaning them out for the sake of it, it has to be a move that will benefit the player and the club.
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Rodgers seems serious about cultivating a steadfast set of principles in the way that he wants his side to play, while the likes of Pep Segura and Rodolfo Borrell have been doing a very good job with the youth-team sides – now is the ideal time to see if these youngsters will sink or swim, you can’t mollycoddle and protect them forever, there are plenty of real footballing sides within the lower leagues these days, it’s not simply confined to the long-ball antics of the past, so in the right environment, there’s no reason why they wouldn’t be snapped up and allowed to flourish. The club need to utilise the loan market in their favour, otherwise decent young players that could have been something more at Anfield, will continue to slip through the net.
Over the last few years it has become apparent, that the media and those within the game are comparing more young players to the great players of the past. It seems as if every other week, we hear about the ‘new’ Zidane, Pele or Maradona, yet many of these young players never live up to the name-tag, and is it any wonder when they have that huge added pressure placed upon their shoulders.
It’s not fair for a young player who is just starting out their career to have the sort of pressure associated with that sort of name-tag. For a youngster simply trying to improve, it could be very detrimental to their development, throwing them into a harsh spotlight at an early stage. Labelling young players creates high expectations in not just the players minds, but also those around him and the supporters, and thus the player is seen as a failure if they don’t ever live up to those unobtainable heights. It’s not good for a young players mentality, as they might buy into the hype themselves, creating wildly unrealistic expectations for themselves and those around them. It’s difficult to keep your feet on the ground when you’ve just been labelled the ‘new Pele’.
There was only one Zidane, one Pele, and to compare somebody at the beginning of their career to one of the greats, is simply ridiculous. Those players are one offs, players whose skills amazed us and who achieved greatness in the game. By pigeon holing players under these labels we are just setting them up for failure before they have even started their careers.
Houllier in his time at Liverpool named Bruno Cheyrou the ‘new Zidane’ but where is he now? Had Houllier not made such a ridiculous claim, perhaps Cheyrou would have had more time to develop and rise through the ranks at Liverpool, rather than being thrust into the spotlight, and almost immediately labelled a failure. There has been a list of Argentine players compared to Maradona-Ortega and Saviola to name a few-who have become successful players in their own right, but because they were labelled as the ‘new Maradona’, and never achieved his heights in the game, they are automatically labelled as failing or not achieving their potential.
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Samir Nasri was another labelled the ‘new Zidane’-he is probably closer to it than Cheyrou-just because they played in the same position and had similar family backgrounds. More ridiculous is Steve Kean who recently labelled Blackburn signing Myles Anderson as the new Chris Smalling. How can he be the new Chris Smalling, when Chris Smalling has barely got his own career off the ground?
Players need to be left to create their own identity, and leave their own mark on the game, otherwise they are more than likely to succumb to the ridiculous burdens placed upon them. Perhaps more young players would successfully fulfill their potential and talent, if they weren’t thrown into such a harsh spotlight. Having talent is no guarantee that you are going to be world class, but surely if players were left to develop on their own, there would be a greater success rate.
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It seems as if with the constant name-tagging of young players we are always setting them up for failure. I’m sure over the next few years, players will be hailed as the new Xavi’s and Messi’s of the world, but how many will succeed to live up to those name-tags? Probably very few, because the pressure and the expectations it creates are just too much for a young player to live up to.
As the Carling Cup semi-finals get underway this week, the old adage of the competition being second rate seems far from the truth. All four teams left in the cup will see it as a massive chance to win some silverware. Considering the debate over the importance of the much loved FA Cup which accompanies the third round every year, are we looking at the new trophy to win?
If you ask any fan up and down the country, they will tell you they would much rather see their side lift the famous FA Cup, I’m sure the players would as well. History would prove though, that as the big teams become stronger, any club outside of the top six stand very little chance of making it anywhere near Wembley.
So realistically, do the rest of the club managers look more favourably upon the Carling Cup? The likes of Chelsea rarely play their best team so the chances of beating them are automatically increased. Manchester United may have won it twice in the last two years, but in both seasons, the likes of Tottenham who faced them in the quarter-finals in 2010 saw it as a chance missed given Sir Alex Ferguson’s team selection.
Speaking to a Man City fan, he often wonders why Roberto Mancini hasn’t done more to try and get the trophy to Eastlands as it would send out huge signals that Manchester City are ready to win silverware. Until they do manage to win a competition, they will have to live with the burden of spending so much with few rewards, so why not the Carling Cup?
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So for Birmingham City, West Ham and even Arsenal, this week’s fixtures could be the biggest of the season. What would it say about how far Birmingham have come in the last few years if they could make it to a final of a domestic cup? Likewise it would provide a welcome distraction and maybe even a boost for West Ham after a disastrous season whilst as little as he may think of the cup itself, Arsene Wenger needs a trophy sooner rather than later. This isn’t to rule out Ipswich Town altogether – similar to West Ham it would certainly take their mind off league matters but as good as it would be for the game if a Championship club could make it to Wembley, they have a very tall order.
And what about the players themselves? Will there ever be a better chance for the likes of Mark Noble or Steven Carr to win a major honour?
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The competition was introduced with an American format in order to increase the excitement of a knock-out competition. There has to be a winner on the day of every round, apart from the two-legged semi, of course. It never did achieve such status as the fixtures fans dare not miss, but are we now starting to see the importance of the cup often disregarded?
You will often hear the Carling Cup described as the ‘Mickey Mouse’ competition but for all teams involved, there is nothing funny about getting through to the final. Whichever of the four sides go on to lift the trophy, I’m sure they will agree that the Carling Cup is definitely worth being part of.
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Robin van Persie, Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud. Between them the three strikers scored 81 goals and assisted 35 others in a combined 122 games last season. The signing of Lukas Podolski was, even in the eyes of the most pessimistic Arsenal supporters, never truly seen as a replacement for Robin van Persie. Reassurance came in the form of his performances for Germany in which he is deployed on the wing and his admission that he didn’t always expect to be number one.
But what about Olivier Giroud? The news announced yesterday from a variety of sources seemed to indicate that every man and their dog had spoken to an insider source, either at Arsenal or Montpellier, who had confided in them the most secret of secrets – that Giroud had agreed a contract with Arsenal. With the £12m deal to be announced after Euro 2012, just what does it mean for Arsenal and van Persie?
It didn’t take long for a whole host of self-appointed-experts to formulate definite and partisan opinions on the consequences of this, seemingly certain, signing.
For some he is the poor man’s replacement for our outward bound captain, for others he is the target man van Persie has been waiting for as a partner and for those truly cynical fans Giroud is the reincarnation of one Marouane Chamakh. But with less gel, obviously.
So, which is it – the captain’s usurper or Marouane mark II? Well, let’s look at the facts. First of all, it’s not hard to dispel the myth and show that Giroud is comfortably a better player than Arsenal’s desperately underwhelming Moroccan forward. Olivier Giroud has scored over twenty league goals in two of the last three seasons and is a natural goal scorer. Chamakh has never managed to score more than thirteen league goals in a season and was always more of a link up striker.
Moreover, Giroud, at Montpellier, is used to playing the same system that he would presumably be asked to play at Arsenal – flanked by two wingers with a playmaker in just behind. Finally, at six foot three and weighing just under fourteen stone Giroud is easily better built for the physicality of the Premier League.
As simple as it is to highlight the disparity Giroud and Arsenal’s lesser strikers it is easy to highlight the same situation between van Persie and Giroud. The Dutchman is a proven, world-class striker at the peak of his career who, last year, was the top scorer as well as the PFA Player of the Year for arguably the best, and toughest, league in the world. Olivier Giroud may have been joint top scorer for Ligue 1 last year but the fact remains he has spent most of his career playing in the lower echelons of French football.
I’m not saying that means he’s necessarily not up to scratch, the same was true of Laurent Koscielny and he had a superb second season for Arsenal, but it does indicate that he will struggle to ever fully replace a player like van Persie. But maybe we’re missing the point. Perhaps neither Podolski nor Giroud are replacements for van Persie on their own, perhaps the Arsenal hierarchy view their combined purchase as a solid replacement for Robin – Giroud and Podolski scored a combined total of 42 goals last season, van Persie scored 37.
It would be understandable if Gazidis and Wenger, resigned to losing their captain, had gone out and bought two players to replace him. The problem is, however, that it is not a progressive step by Arsenal. Who knows, maybe these two strikers together could replace him, but Arsenal only just scraped third this season, do they really want risk having a similar season again? They don’t need to swap and replace players; they need to improve the squad by adding to it.
Clearly there are two sides to every coin; the other being that Arsenal could get over £20m for van Persie this summer and he is unlikely to be the same player next year. The van Persie situation is remarkably similar to that of Thierry Henry in the summer of 2006. What happened there? Henry signed a new deal with a huge sign on bonus and effectively cost Arsenal around £10m to keep him for a year, a year in which he spent most of his time on the treatment table. The same could easily be possible for Robin. Last year was a gruelling physical challenge for van Persie and his resting period will be minimal because of his involvement in Euro 2012 (just as it was for Thierry at the 2006 World Cup). If the Dutchman does stay Arsenal risk either losing him for nothing if he refuses to sign a new deal or they risk wasting vast sums of money on a player who is far from guaranteed to be fit all season.
This would be a worrying thought for Arsenal fans, were it not for the other aspects that van Persie brings to the club.
Forget the money, forget the worry of whether all these strikers can play together. Robin van Persie is Arsenal’s captain, he holds this team together. To sell him might not only take Arsenal back to the gloomy days of William Gallas’ reign, devoid of morale with a distinct sense of disunity, but it also sends the message that every summer Arsenal will sell their best players. It is an issue that needs to be dealt with and there is no time like the present.
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You hear people saying that Giroud, Podolski and van Persie won’t all be able to play together, that there will be problems and damaged egos. Who cares? If these players don’t like competition for places then they shouldn’t sign for big clubs. Every successful team has decent squad depth. This is Arsenal’s chance to have a good array of strikers in the prime of their lives for the first time since Kanu, Henry, Bergkamp and Wiltord were all on the books; and we know what kind of success that lead to.
If Arsenal sign Olivier Giroud they have a chance to change their fortunes. They have the chance to forget that they’re a conservatively run business and remember that you have to speculate to accumulate. Arsenal football club have to forget what they ‘know’ about how you run a business; even the most risk averse football clubs must put themselves on the line occasionally, this is Arsenal’s chance.
Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho paid tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo, whose hat-trick led the side to a 3-0 friendly win over Chivas of Guadalajara.After being frustrated by the Mexican side’s goalkeeper Luis Michel in the first half in San Diego, Ronaldo finally broke the shackles in the 73rd minute and the star struck twice more in the next nine minutes to wrap up the win for the tourists.
Mourinho was delighted with Ronaldo’s performance, and the coach is pleased with the progress his team is making on their now-routine pre-season tour of North America.
“Cristiano is Cristiano. He always has the joy, the motivation and the pride to play, be it in China, Japan or the USA,” Mourinho said.
“He himself is pleased to have played well and scored. We knew we wanted to play well and we managed that.”
“This was very good training for us. I have been coming to the USA for many years with Chelsea and now Madrid. We played against American and Mexican teams, though never Chivas from America. They are tough games against good sides, who play aggressively.”
“That is what we need. There is no need to win games 10-0. We need to play against good teams, who give us some problems.”
Mourinho was also impressed by the form of Brazilian playmaker Kaka, who he feels is ready to resume top form after a lean few years.
“I always knew that what Kaka needed was to have a proper pre-season. The World Cup, injuries, a last-minute transfer to Real Madrid have combined to ensure that he has not had a proper pre-season in five or six seasons,” he said.
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One story will undoubtedly dominate in the run up to this game which will prove handy for Roy Hodgson, who’ll welcome the distraction from his side’s terrible away record this season. He’s unlikely to escape the questions altogether but with Alan Pardew taking up more of the column inches, Hodgson can focus more on repeating the level of performance which saw his side cruise past Aston Villa at Anfield on Monday. Something which he’s struggled to do so far this season. And pretty much every other season he’s managed in the Premier League.
If positives can be found in Liverpool’s away record it comes from their last four games. Other than the disappointing showing against Stoke, they looked good for 45 minutes at White Hart Lane, handed Bolton their only home defeat of the season and picked up a point against Wigan. It’s not exactly title winning form but if Liverpool can start picking up more points away from Anfield then his hopes of making it in to one of the Champions League places come the end of the season may not be as slim as they currently appear. Especially not if some wise purchases are made in January.
The big question for this weekend’s game is just what effect the senseless sacking of Chris Hughton followed by seemingly equally senseless appointment of Alan Pardew will be on the players. If, as expected, recent events cause turmoil in the St James’ dressing room, Liverpool could continue their recent good record over Newcastle and secure just their second away win of the season at evens.
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Strangely it was without Gerrard, Torres and Carragher that the reds put in one of their more impressive displays of the season, albeit against a Villa side with a similarly poor away record. Not having them in the side, particularly Gerrard and Torres, will allow other players to take a more prominent role. Mareilles has more freedom to get forward from midfield and Babel may play from the start instead of getting ten minutes at the end of games, a situation which seems more conducive to getting a good performance from him. The Dutch player finished well against Villa and is possibly a better option than Ngog to partner Torres if Hodgson opts to play two up top.
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Juventus have given up in the race for Arsenal hitman Robin van Persie, and will turn their attention to Liverpool’s Luis Suarez and Manchester City forward Edin Dzeko, according to Mirror Football.
The newly-crowned Italian champions are expected to strengthen in the summer in preparation for Champions League football next season, with a new frontman high on the wishlist.
The Bianconeri had been interested in bringing Van Persie to Turin, but the Dutch international is now in a tug-of-war between Arsenal and Manchester City, and as such Juventus are ready to drop their pursuit.
Suarez has been involved in controversies on and off the pitch this season for the Reds, and the Italian giants are eyeing up a move for the Uruguayan.
Meanwhile, Dzeko is fourth choice in Roberto Mancini’s preferences in attack at City, and is widely expected to leave the Etihad Stadium this summer in search of regular first-team football.
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Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan may yet leave the Stadium of Light according to the player’s agent.
The Ghanian international forward signed for The Black Cats from Rennes for a fee of £13million, and following impressive displays and ten goals last term has been linked with a move away from the Wearside club.
Manager Steve Bruce and Chairman Niall Quinn have been quick to rubbish speculation, but ahead of the first day of pre-season training on Wednesday the 25-year-old’s representative Fabien Piveteau has stated the frontman may yet move.
“I can’t say if he is staying or not. As far as I know, one club has tabled an offer. He is returning to the club for pre-season and we will sit down with the coach to talk about it,” Piveteau is believed to have stated in The Guardian.
Zenit St Petersburg are believed to be the side to have bid for the Accra born player, with Harry Redknapp and Tottenham supposedly also interested.
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Meanwhile, Sunderland hope to tie up the signatures of Manchester United trio Darron Gibson, John O’Shea and Wes Brown for a collective £12million in the near future, with the Irish defender the closest of the three to moving thus far.
Chelsea are already being linked with players for the January transfer window and next summer, but should Bayern’s Bastian Schweinsteiger be the Blues’ number one target at the end of the current term?
I personally feel that the Germany midfielder is a perfect fit for Chelsea’s system and would help fill a void which has opened up since the likes of Michael Ballack, Deco, Joe Cole and Juliano Belletti have left the club.
Chelsea have been missing a key man in midfield in Frank Lampard for much of the current campaign due to injury and it is worrying that there is no ready replacement in place. Josh McEachran has won plaudits when he has had the opportunity, but at 17-years of age he needs more time to develop as a player without the pressure of stepping into big shoes like Frank’s.
Schweinsteiger has caught the eye of many admirers during his time with Bayern Munich both domestically and in the Champions League, but it was his displays in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup that led to many calls from Chelsea fans appealing to the west London club to sign the 26-year-old. The Stamford Bridge outfit were even linked to him pre-tournament after Ballack’s departure was confirmed.
The midfielder impressed in South Africa and was in my opinion one of the players of the tournament. He bossed the midfield for a young and exuberant Germany team that ended up finishing in 3rd place, with one of his best moments in the competition being the superb run and low cross which setup Arne Friedrich’s tap-in for Germany’s third goal against Diego Maradona’s Argentina side.
Schweinsteiger has been successful in a deep-lying midfield role, similar to the role played by Ballack towards the end of his time with Chelsea (a role which Jon Obi Mikel has made his mark on), but the Bayern man is also capable of playing a more offensive midfield position or even in a wider role. Due to his versatility he would arguably be well suited to the Blues’ 433 formation and Ancelotti’s originally preferred diamond option.
He has been at Bayern Munich for the entirety of his professional career, so it could be tough to prise him away and that is made especially hard considering the fact it is Real Madrid who are favourites for his signature should he leave Germany. Roman Abramovich has been rather frugal in the transfer market in recent years, but Schweinsteiger is a genuine world-class talent and could be worth the hefty price tag… I realise under current circumstances this is unikely, but I live in hope.
Schweinsteiger has never really been prolific himself, but can chip in with the odd goal (38 goals in 324 Bayern Munich games). More impressive are the amount of assists he makes (62 in his Bayern career). He has also earned 84 caps for his country and has scored 21 goals.
Who would you like to see the club go for (if anyone) in January or the summer?
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