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The draw ceremony for the 2025 African Cup of Nations, which Morocco will host during the period from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026, took place on Thursday in the capital of South Africa, Johannesburg.

The draw resulted in strong groups and anticipated confrontations, especially in the Egyptian national team, which fell into the third group.

The 48 participating teams were divided into 12 groups, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the tournament finals in Morocco.
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#Mauritania #Africa_Cup_of_Nations_2025 #Algeria #Benin #Chad #Comoros #Congo #Egypt #Equatorial_Guinea #football #Gambia #Ghana #Ivory_Coast #Johannesburg #Libya #Madagascar #Mali #Morocco #Niger #Nigeria #Senegal #South_Africa #Sudan #Tunisia
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The European Football Association (UEFA) announced that Jude Bellingham, the England national team player, was suspended for one match due to his inappropriate behavior during his country’s match against Slovenia in the Euro 2024 tournament.

This decision came after Bellingham scored the equalizer for England in the final moments of stoppage time, with a double overhead kick, which led to the match being extended to extra time, where Harry Kane was able to score the winning goal, ending the match with a score of 2-1 in favor of England.
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#Declan_Rice #England #England_National_Team #Euro_2024 #football #Francesco_Calzona #Harry_Kane #Judd_Bellingham #Slovenia #Slovenia_National_Team #Switzerland #The_FA #UEFA
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The Dutch national team turned the tables on its Turkish counterpart and defeated it 2-1 in the match that took place on Saturday evening, to reserve its place in the semi-finals of the European Football Championship in Germany.

Turkey started the match strongly and took the lead in the 35th minute through a goal from Samit Akaydin ,Although the Turks advanced by a goal in the first half, the Netherlands team succeeded in returning to the match strongly in the second half, and defender Stefan de Vry scored the equalizer in the 70th minute.

In the 76th minute, the second goal for the Netherlands came in an unexpected way, as Turkish player Mert Muldor scored an own goal by mistake, granting qualification to the Dutch Windmills.
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#Germany #Dortmund #England #Euro_2024 #European_Nations_Cup #football #Mert_Muldor #Netherlands #Silent_Akadin #Stefan_de_Vrij #Switzerland #Turkey
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The Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports, Ashraf Sobhi, announced the formation of a legal committee to investigate the circumstances of the death of player Ahmed Refaat, star of the Modern Sport Football Club, who passed away on Saturday.

In statements to “Extra News” channel, Sobhi said: “We are not a party to this matter, but we have administrative and supervisory responsibility.”

The minister added that the committee will include highly qualified judicial advisors.

Sobhi explained that the committee will examine all the results urgently, and will review the work cycle, the administrative atmosphere, and all matters related to the agents.

Sobhi stressed that the committee will work urgently and in an organized manner, while following up on public opinion and providing periodic developments in the investigation.

#Ahmed_Refaat #Ashraf_Sobhi #Egypt #Egyptian_Minister_of_Youth_and_Sports #football #Modern_Sport_Club
Moroccans have been preoccupied in recent hours with the incident of the loss of two players from the Tangier Football Club, after their boat drifted due to winds and waves, during a tourist tour on the beaches of the city of Tetouan in northern Morocco.

Five players from the Ittihad Tangier team decided to go out for a sea excursion on a small tourist boat on Saturday, and they all jumped into the water to swim, but the winds and waves took the boat away from them a long distance, making them unable to catch it.

Civil defense crews intervened and were able to rescue three players, as the players Salman Al-Harrak and Abdel Latif Akhrif are still missing, and search operations continue in the beaches of Tetouan, Fnideq, Martil and M’diq to determine their whereabouts.
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#Abdel_Latif_Akhrif #Fnideq #football #Ittihad_Tangier_Club #Martil #Morocco #Salman_El_Harrak #Tangier #Tetouan
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On Tuesday, the Moroccan National Olympic Committee announced a list of 60 athletes who will represent the Kingdom in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where they will participate in 19 sports to defend the national colors.

The committee said in a statement that the sports in which Morocco will participate include athletics, football, boxing, rowing, beach volleyball, cycling, golf, judo, wrestling, swimming, and equestrianism.

Morocco is betting on a number of its champions to achieve distinguished results, most notably Sofiane El Bakkali, who won the gold medal in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the previous Olympics, and Fatima Zahraa Kirdadi, who became the first Moroccan and Arab woman to win a bronze medal in the marathon race at the World Championships in Budapest. .
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#Achraf_Hakimi #Athletics #Beach_Volleyball #Boxing #Equestrian #Fatima_Zahraa_Kirdadi #football #Golf #Judo #Moroccan_National_Olympic_Committee #Morocco #Paris_Olympics_2024 #Rowing #Sofian_El_Bakkali #Swimming
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The draw for the African Champions League for the 2024-2025 season, which was held today, Thursday, resulted in a possible confrontation for Al-Ahly club in the round of 32 with the winner of the match between Kenya’s Jormahia and Al-Merreikh Juba, the champion of South Sudan.

Egypt is represented in the African Champions League this season by Al-Ahly and Pyramids, while Zamalek and Al-Masry participate in the Confederation Cup.

Al-Ahly holds the African Champions League title after its victory last season over Esperance of Tunisia in the final match with a clean goal.

It is expected that the next confrontation for Al-Ahly will be an opportunity to strengthen its track record in the tournament, as it seeks to maintain its title and continue achieving successes on the African level.
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#African_Champions_League #Al_Ahly_of_Egypt #Egypt #football #Sports
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Ittihad Jeddah Club announced on Tuesday that it had signed Algerian player Houssem Aouar, who recently joined from Italian Roma, with a contract extending until 2028.

This is the first deal for coach Laurent Blanc’s team during the summer transfer period.

Aouar, 26 years old, began his professional career with Lyon in France, where he played 233 matches and scored 41 goals. Last season, he moved to Roma, where he scored 4 goals.

At the international level, Aouar played one match with the French national team, but last year he decided to represent the Algerian national team.

#Algeria #Algeria_national_team #football #France #Houssem_Aouar #Italian_Club_Roma #Ittihad_Jeddah_Club #Saudi_Arabia
The latest classification issued by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) on Thursday showed that the Russian national football team continues to maintain its position at 33rd place in the world.

The Russian team has been banned from participating in international tournaments since February 2022 due to the sanctions imposed on it as a result of the current events in Ukraine and was able to collect 1,506.58 points in the classification.

The sanctions imposed by” FIFA” and the European Football Association “UEFA” led to the exclusion of Russian clubs and teams from participating in international tournaments, making international participation by Russians limited to friendly matches only.

The Russian national team has not played any official matches since June 7, when it played a friendly match against the Belarusian national team and won 4-0.
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#Belarus #FIFA #football #Russia #Russian_National_Team #UEFA #Ukraine
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In a strange incident in the world of football, the Kuwaiti Kazma Club was subjected to a fraud, as it played a friendly match with a “fake” team in Egypt, claiming to be the Beni Suef Telephone Club.

The story began when the Kuwaiti Kazma Club announced through its official accounts on social media that it had won seven goals to one over the Telephonat Beni Suef Club, within its training camp in Alexandria in preparation for the new season.

But the surprise was in the response of the Beni Suef Telephone Club, which completely denied playing any friendly match with the Kuwaiti team.

The Egyptian club explained on its “Facebook” account: “Beni Suef Telephone Club warns against dealing with the players’ agent called Sayed Riad, who impersonated the Beni Suef Telephone Club representative and played a friendly match against the Kuwaiti Al-Kadhma Club.
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#Alexandria #Bani_Suef_Telephone_Club #Egypt #football #Fraud #Kazma_Club #Kuwait #Sayed_Riad
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The sports arena received an unconventional offer from international star Ryan Reynolds, who owns a share in the Welsh club Wrexham, as he sent a funny invitation to Liverpool player Mohamed Salah to join his team.

The English Football League website published a video clip, in which Reynolds was seen begging Salah to move to the Welsh club, saying: “You will be warmly embraced at the racecourse in North Wales.” “Think about it,” Reynolds added at the conclusion of the video.
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#English_Premier_League #football #Liverpool #Mohamed_Salah #Ryan_Reynolds #Saudi_League #Sports #Wales #Wrexham
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