Shout-Africa’s Novell Zwange had an exclusive interview with the President of Embratur – Brazilian Tourism Board, Jeanine Pires, who was recently in Johannesburg, South Africa ahead of FIFA 2014 World Cup™ to be hosted in Brazil. Below is the Q&A session: NOVELL ZWANGE (NZ) : What challenges do the hosting of FIFA 2014 World Cup™ present to Brazil? JEANINE PIRES (JP) We have a few challenges here and there, but we have organised in Brazil a strategy beyond 2010 expectations. NZ : Could you please give estimate figures or a percentage of African tourist arrivals to Brazil over say the... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye, from Accra-Ghana – Maputo 2011 All Africa Games have been released following the draw held on Monday in Cairo, Egypt. The qualifying series begins in January 2011 till July 2011, to determine the eight teams for both Men and Women’s competitions. Female 2 lone star women team training The 10th All Africa Games will be held from 3-18 September. A source close to Shout-Africa.com revels that the Liberia Football Association has unveiled prices to the international Weekend match between the female teams of Liberia and Ghana, bound for Sunday Feb. 13, 2011. The winner will face Nigeria... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – Shout-Africa.com sources have it that Coach Stevanovic trained with the full squad, drawn from bases in Europe at the Bosuilstadion, the match venue. The Serb met the 18 foreign-based players picked up for the task at the training ground yesterday. The match played at the 17000 capacity Bosuilstadion. Ghana, who top the African rankings, played the Hawks with the previous meeting between the pair coming in a friendly in August 2006, which ended 2-0 in favour of the Black Stars. Goran Stevanovic’s tenure as Ghana boss got off to the best possible start with a 4-1... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – Ghana has become Africa’s best football nation after edging Egypt to the top spot on the continental table released Wednesday by Fifa. The Black Stars accumulated 940 points after adding up 16 more points to become the continent’s number one side and are now placed 15th on the world ranking table for February. Ivory Coast move to second with Egypt falling to third. According to Fifa, the significant devaluation of the points won a year ago at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations contributed to the changes in the rankings this month. Though changes were recorded... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – The first test for Ghana’s new coach and proof that the heavy sums of money dished out for him is worth it comes off this next week with a friendly match with Adebayor’s Togo . Goran Stevanovic’s squad to face Togo in an international friendly next week Tuesday has been announced. A 19-man squad would represent the Black Stars in the game in Antwerp, Belgium on 8 February as Ghana plays the Hawks in their first fixture of the New Year which would also be Stevanovic’s debut as head coach. Sulley Muntari and Derek Boateng both... Continue Reading
