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Côte d'Ivoire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The BBC usually uses "Ivory Coast" both in news reports and on its page about the country [1]. The country was originally known in English as Ivory Coast, and corresponding translations in other languages: Elfenbeinküste in German, Costa de Marfil in Spanish, Costa do Marfim in Portuguese, Ivoorkust in Dutch and so on. Despite the Ivorian government's ruling, "Ivory Coast" (sometimes "the Ivory Coast") is still the most commonly used name in English. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivory_Coast   (1967 words)

SI.com - Soccer - Ivory Coast foes bury hatchet on football pitch - Sunday September 26, 2004 11:34PM The Ivory Coast national team is regarded as the coming force in African soccer, its young stars such as Chelsea striker Didier Drogba and Arsenal defender Kolo Toure playing for top European clubs. Ivory Coast foes bury hatchet on football pitch Whatever the score, it will be the whole of Ivory Coast that wins. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/soccer/09/26/bc.ivorycoast.soccer   (900 words)

Mozambique - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mozambique Portugal exploited Mozambique's resources of gold and ivory and used it as a source of slave labour, both locally and overseas. Although Machel supported the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa and the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia, he knew he must coexist and trade with his two white-governed neighbours. From 1980 Mozambique was faced with widespread drought, which affected most of southern Africa, and attacks by mercenaries under the banner of the Mozambique National Resistance (MNR) – also known as Renamo – who were covertly but strongly backed by South Africa. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mozambique   (1228 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet Global: News - Ivory Coast coach is sacked IVORY COAST - National coach Patrick Parizon was dismissed over the weekend, Ivorian football officials announced, after a series of mediocre team performances. Parizon took over the team after the African Nations Cup final in February, where the Ivory Coast failed to make it past the first round. A seventh-minute goal from Gareth Devine separated the two teams in the deciding match of the week-long tournament. www.soccernet.com /global/news/2000/1212/20001212africa.html   (449 words)

BBC News AFRICA Ivory Coast football squad detained Ivory Coast's national football squad has been detained by the military authorities in an army camp following its elimination from the African Cup of Nations, which is currently taking place in West Africa. The Ivory Coast team, known by its nickname, the Elephants, was eliminated from the tournament after three matches. Ivorian fans said the team seemed to fall apart during the match with Cameroon and they said they were angry because each of the mostly foreign-based players was reported to have received the equivalent of thousands of dollars to represent the national side. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/628319.stm   (296 words)

1994 in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 30 November - The South Africa national football team draws with the Ivory Coast national football team 0-0 at the Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth in the Simba Cup The South Africa national football team beats the Zambia national football team 2-1 at the Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg in a friendly match The South Africa national football team beats the Zimbabwe national football team 1-0 at the Independence Stadium, Mmabatho in a friendly match en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1994_in_South_Africa   (1542 words)

CNNSI.com - Soccer - Democratic Republic of Congo aiming to restore pride - Wednesday January 16, 2002 07:01 AM Posted: Wednesday January 16, 2002 7:01 AM KINSHASA (Reuters) -- A renewed football team from the war-divided Democratic Republic of Congo is hoping to restore national pride when it takes the pitch at the African Nations Cup finals. Congo's national team was once the toast of the continent when it became the first country from sub-Saharan Africa to qualify for the World Cup in 1974. The national team, known locally as the Simbas, is coached by Louis Watunda, who took the country to the 1998 Nations Cup semifinals. sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/01/16/congodr_feature   (645 words)

USA Softball headlines That's not to say the U.S. national team hasn't experienced a few tests on the way to its warm-up for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal. Team USA has won 122 straight pre-Olympic warm-up games dating back to May, 1996, when it lost to a California Select team that might have been good enough to contend for a medal in Columbus. In the early stages of its "Aiming for Athens" tour, Team USA has faced some of the top young talents in the country in exhibitions against seventh-ranked Alabama, eight-ranked Stanford, 12th-ranked Tennessee, 12th-ranked Michigan, 18th-ranked Oregon State, as well as teams from Notre Dame and Virginia Tech. www.usasoftball.com /pressreleases/getStory.asp?nid=521   (632 words)

Al-Ahram Weekly Sports Who's hot, who's not Samir Adli, the team's administrative manager, said he was not upset by having Libya and the Ivory Coast in Egypt's group. GROUP A: The Ivory Coast, Egypt and Libya were all in the same group as the 2006 World Cup finals so will be well acquainted with each other, with Morocco joining the group. Both teams had played out a goalless draw earlier this year in an entertaining friendly in London but Nigeria's last competitive game against the Lions of Teranga was a bruising extra time loss in the semi-finals of the 2002 African Nations Cup finals in Mali. weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/766/sp1.htm   (1304 words)

Africabasket - Ivory Coast Basketball Ivory Coast national team-player Serge Afeli signed with Kansas State and already arrived in the midwest.The 6-9 post-player replaces Sidiki Sidibe (214-C-85), who stays in France to play professionally. The national team, that was sent to Algeria to avoid sanctions by FIBA Africa, got pounded by the Nigerians 87-56, a heavy loss by 29 points. Former Waco High star Carl Sims, a freshman receiver for the Baylor football team, is expected to join the basketball team after football season. www.africabasket.com /ivo/ivo.asp   (1425 words)

Rank and Vile But instead of advocating that migrants should assimilate and conform to a 'football, meat pies and Holden cars' Australian suburban ideal, she questions multiculturalism when a culture (or at least a small part of it) advocates practices which are incompatible with the liberal 'left' ideas of a western society. Clubs are the heart and soul of a football club.Look at what has happened with people in England when you threaten their clubs; Wimbledon and Manchester United, as a case in point. Football can be seen as a representation of a foreign powerful source which could take over 'our game'. rankandvile.blogspot.com   (9752 words)

Nigeria 2003 Elections  Sub Site NigeriaBusinessInfo.com The youths of the nation, the Golden Eaglets won the maiden edition of Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Kodak Under 17 soccer trophy in far away China in 1985 and repeated the feat in Japan in 1993. Also at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, Nigeria's under 23 football team led by Nwankwo Kanu, won the gold in the football tournament. The FIFA ban barring the hosting right of the country to host the Under-20 football category and not to participate in any age competition in 1989 and 1991 is a sour period in Nigerian football history. nigeriabusinessinfo.com /nigeria-elections2003/thenandnow/sports.htm   (1041 words)

Assess the Extent to which the Different Powers Prepared 'Their' African Colonies for Independence. The Ivory Coast conflict violence is example of how the French have tried to maintain their interests and how it has backfired right into their faces. Anti-white feelings are new to the Ivory Coast, becoming widespread after an army mutiny in 2003 and culminating with the murder of a French journalist. Aside from football another link between France and her former colonies is the constant sight of French peacekeeping troops on the post colonial landscape. www.coursework.info /i/72896.html   (879 words)

ACU Sports News Ayetotche is a native of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with national titles in the 200 and 400. In 1998 the ACU women's team won both NCAA Division II indoor and outdoor national championships and its 15th straight Lone Star Conference title for coach Wes Kittley. Her team also won the 4x200 relay at the Drake Relays in April in 1:36.18, and she ran a wind-aided 23.49 in a meet in May at the University of Illinois in Champaign. www.acu.edu:9090 /sports/news/wtr071398.html   (253 words)

Sports Football Outreach I took a friend of mine, who is an int'l student (Herman) from the Ivory Coast to his first ever "American" football game. Coach Hofland said of his CAHN team that “the defense played great all day, as they held an explosive Owl offense to 99 yards passing and 53 yards rushing.” Brett Lennox was at the fore defensively for his CAHN squad with six solo tackles, one assist, a quarterback sack and an interception. The Owls are a team that can never be considered down for the count, what with an explosive passing attack that lends itself to comebacks. www.angelfire.com /mn2/goodnewsumm/sports.football.html   (1520 words)

ipedia.com: 1970 Article May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmensmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia. February 18 - The Chicago Eight are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. October 10 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, a national crisis hits Canada when Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group. www.ipedia.com /1970.html   (1783 words)

For Liberia Vs Our Sports Desk has learned from credible sources that the technical staff of the National football team, the Lone Star, has selected nine foreign-based players to form part of the squad that will face the Mena of Niger come the weekend of October 11-13, 2002. Kpoto had been in Ivory Coast after his contract expired in Greece last season. Some football pundits have meanwhile advised that Seator should be invited to training since he is still in town because nobody knows whether all of the foreign-based invited will show up. www.liberiansoccer.com /for_liberia_vs2.htm   (450 words)

BBC SPORT Football Africa Guinea players ordered to barber's Conte has told them if they do not have their hair cut before Sunday they will be expelled from the team to play Liberia in their Nations Cup qualifier. This is not the first time president Conte has sent the team for a snip. The news was told to the players at a reception at the Presidential lodge on Friday. news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/africa/2244352.stm   (213 words)

IHCC Warrior Baskeball Iowa Western was the top-seeded team in Region XI heading into the regional tournament and has since qualified for the school's first-ever national tournament appearance. Kidder's 2002 Dixie squad won the national title and he was named the NJCAA Coach of the Year, National Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year, and Coach of the Tournament at the national tourney. Sauls was a 3rd team Class 4A selection on the Iowa Newspaper Association all-state teams after averaging 15.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, over four assists and two steals a game for an East High team that made it to the state tournament in March. www.ihcc.cc.ia.us /ihcc/Athletics/basketball/basketball.asp   (3627 words)

content.asp?CID=53351 A native of the Ivory Coast in Africa, N'diaye averaged six points, five rebounds and two blocks per game as a junior last year for Berkshire. He is expected to sign a national letter of intent this fall with Kansas State. This website is an officially and independently operated source of news and information not affiliated with any school or team. miami.rivals.com /content.asp?CID=53351   (571 words)

Xtratime Community - Which African team?? Ivory Coast 's squad is impressive indeed and if they qualify they could surprise a lot. When you've got Egypt, Cameroon, and Ivory Coast battling it out for a single WC ticket, South Africa is playing the mighty Cape Verde for the other ticket.. If this were to happen, which african team would you want to win the World Cup in the future. www.xtratime.org /forum/showthread.php?t=162936   (556 words)

The NCAA News: News & Features -- Civil engineering major; volunteered in the Ivory Coast helping with the construction of a church; served as mentor to several high-school students at a local church; started all 80 games in his career, setting the UC Davis career points mark with 82; hopes to eventually pursue master's and doctoral degrees and become a professor. Student-athletes from football, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, men's water polo, women's volleyball and field hockey were eligible for the fall awards. To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, a student-athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.000 (4.000 scale) or its equivalent and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which the student-athlete was nominated. www.ncaa.org /news/2001/20010507/active/3810n14.html   (2275 words)

Westerberg Invited to USA Basketball National Team Trials :: Sun Devil sophomore is eligible for selection to the USA World University Games Team. USA Basketball also sanctions U.S. basketball team tours of foreign countries and foreign basketball team tours of the U.S., as well as oversees the certification of FIBA and USA Basketball officials and the assignment of those officials to international competitions. She finished 26th in the nation in free throw percentage at 84.9 percent and became just the second sophomore in school history to earn first-team all-conference accolades. The teams have been divided into four preliminary pools, three pools consisting of five teams and one pool consisting of six teams. www.cstv.com /sports/w-baskbl/stories/051105aad.html   (829 words)

News-Globacom signs groundbreaking deal with CAF Globacom also sponsors the Nigerian national football Teams and the Nigerian Premier League. As with our football sponsorship programme in Nigeria, we are delighted to contribute to the investment in football, which plays such an important role in the society. Paris, 18th March 2005 - Globacom today heralded a new era for football in Africa as it signed a five-year deal with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to sponsor the Continent’s prestigious football, the CAF awards. www.cafonline.com /news.php?id=36   (533 words)

‘DODGY PENALTY’ FAILS TO DAMPEN SPIRITS ON FIRST ATHLETES IN ACTION FOOTBALL TOUR TO THE IVORY COAST A controversial penalty awarded two minutes from the end of an enthralling match between Agapé’s Athletes in Action [AIA] football team and the Ivory Coast’s under 20s national team, failed to detract from the success of the first ever tour organised by AIA Europe to the west African country. The match, which ended in a 2-1 victory for the home side, was the culmination of a summer tour that included matches against Ivory Coast national champions Club Africa, and a number of other top premiership sides. AIA’s team featured players from across Europe including representatives from Poland, Ireland, Moldova and Germany. www.eauk.org /contentmanager/content/eamc/press/aia-260804.htm   (303 words)

maltasport.com Hosts Egypt have been in Group A of the African Nations alongside Ivory Coast and Morocco in Thursday's draw for the January finals. Former Czech Republic captain Pavel Nedved said that he was ready to come out of retirement to help the national team reach the 2006 World Cup finals. A year ago, Diego Maradona was said to be near to a drug-induced death as a tarnished football legend. www.maltasport.com /International_Football/International_Football   (542 words)

United Soccer Leagues (USL) Mapp, who was loaned to Richmond and Virginia Beach in 2002, started all five matches with the U.S. U-20's at the FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates in 2003, scoring the game-winning goal against the Ivory Coast to help the squad advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament. After earning the 1998 PDL Rookie of the Year honor with the Spokane Shadow, Ching was drafted by the LA Galaxy but needed a standout 2002 campaign with the Seattle Sounders before breaking through in MLS and the National Team a year later. Also making his debut appearance for the senior team is Chicago Fire midfielder Justin Mapp, who shined at the youth international level. www.uslsoccer.com /home/90820.html   (1103 words)

Elephant Miscellany nickname of the University of Alabama football team. The 1930 team was considered a great football team. Ivory was known to the Greeks long before the elephant. www.elephantcountryweb.com /ellies8.html   (6433 words)

African Societie - Staff Among his hobbies is worth to mention soccer, infact, he used to play in the ivorian national football team under 18. He was born in Toumodi, Ivory Coast, 46 Kilometres from the capital Yamoussoukro. His father was an engeneer working for the national electric company. www.africansocieties.org /staff_honore.htm   (321 words)

ESPN.com Soccernet Global: News for Friday January 25, 2002 The Democratic Republic of Congo has struggled to end its civil war since 1998 but when the national football team takes the field opposing factions forget their differences for 90 minutes. Cameroon striker Patrick Mboma has struck again, scoring a late goal to give the defending African Nations Cup champions a lucky 1-0 win over Ivory Coast and send them into the quarter-finals. Four-time winners Egypt have put their African Nations Cup campaign back on track as midfielder Hazem Imam scored the only goal in his side's 1-0 win over Tunisia. www.soccernet.com /global/news/2002/0125   (202 words)

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