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	Ajax Amsterdam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (Euronext: AJAX) also referred to as Ajax Amsterdam, AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax (pronounced Ah-yahx), is a football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
		The club is historically one of the top-10 football clubs in the world, and one of the 'Big Three' clubs that dominate Dutch football, the other two being Feyenoord Rotterdam and PSV Eindhoven.
		This resignation was also the aftermath of Koeman's long-standing spat with then football director Louis van Gaal who had questioned Koeman's managerial abilities after Ajax's dry spell in the domestic league which even saw them languishing in fifth position at the beginning of 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ajax_Amsterdam (1121 words)

	SA Football - Premier League Teams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gauteng is the mostly densely populated province in South Africa.
		The Free State lies in the heart of South Africa, with the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho nestling in the hollow of its bean-like shape.
		Teams in the Premier leagues are not doing enough to give the local lads a chance to prove themselves but opted to cast their nets north of Africa for goalkeepers.
	www.safootball.co.za /premier_teams.htm (2302 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Sports -> Stampede: SA to send mission to sports stadiums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johannesburg: South Africa will send a mission to sports stadiums around the world to study their security after a fatal stampede in Johannesburg, authorities announced on Saturday as a public fund for the victims topped the Rand million (120,000-dollar, 140,000-euro) mark.
		South African Football Association (SAFA) chief executive officer Danny Jordaan said the public fund for the victims passed the Rand million mark on Friday.
		Football management set up the fund, but the forms do not include any indemnity clauses, so victims and families of the dead will be free to sue for damages, he said.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/04/14/spt-stadium.html (587 words)

	Football (soccer) around the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most European countries have two principal football (soccer) competitions: a more prestigious league which is typically a double round-robin tournament restricted to the elite clubs, and a cup which is a single-elimination tournament open to both the elite and lesser clubs.
		For overviews of women's football see Women's football around the world.
		Football Association of the People's Republic of China
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Football_around_the_world (114 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Africa: SAFA set to make formal World Cup bid - Tuesday October 29, 2002 11:07 AM
		Last week, FIFA formally invited all 52 African countries to bid for the 2010 World Cup, which will be held in Africa under the new principle of rotation among the continental confederations.
		SOUTH AFRICA -- Russian Viktor Bondarenko, the coach of South African premier league leaders Mamelodi Sundowns, resigned on Monday, anticipating a possible sacking after a second high profile defeat in a row.
		Bondarenko is the fourth coach of a South African premier league side to lose his job in the last month.
	www.cnn.com /cnnsi/soccer/news/2002/10/29/africa_rdp (941 words)

	Sasol and SAFA pave the road for Amaglug-glug to the Beijing Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Amaglug-glug team that will represent South Africa in Beijing in 2008 will also form the foundation for the Bafana Bafana team that will be battling out with the rest of the world in 2010.
		The President of the South African Football Association, Molefi Oliphant, said: "SAFA is delighted to have produced such a sustainable plan and could not have asked for a better partner than Sasol.
		New objectives include the establishment of a joint project team comprising of members of Sasol and SAFA, the appointment of a full time project manager, the appointment of a suitably qualified coach who will work closely with the national team coach, and an aggressive marketing campaign to ensure support from all South Africans.
	www.bizcommunity.com /Article/196/48/5906.html (966 words)

	The Observer \| Sport \| Will South African football benefit from the World Cup
		The World Cup bid team purposefully centred its language on key words such as 'magic' and 'miracle', words that are staple components in the lexicon of the new South Africa.
		Manchester United and Ajax have stakes in South African clubs, and the trend is to establish 'feeder' clubs for the European market.
		After winning the South African player of the year award in 2003 and being named captain of the national side at 21, he was signed by Tottenham and has since spent most of the season on the bench.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/story/0,6903,1218000,00.html (557 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African \| Who is Irvin Khoza?
		Born in Alexandra, the fl township in Johannesburg, in January 1948, Khoza was involved in football administration while still a high school student in Soweto.
		In 1980, Khoza was appointed as secretary of Orlando Pirates, a team that his uncle once managed, but he was kicked out of the club after a year for reasons that have never been made clear.
		As well as running Orlando Pirates, Khoza is also a vice-president in the South African Football Association and chairman of the Premier Soccer League.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/football/africa/4085683.stm (501 words)

	Ellis Park, South Africa 2001 - Hillsborough Football Disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		South African police said that in this country, teargas is not used as a means of crowd control at matches.
		SA Football Association chief executive Danny Jordaan, speaking from London, said: "It is a worldwide phenomenon but almost always gets blown out of proportion when it occurs in Africa.
		Stainton said as far as he knew the match referee had no means of communicating with Premier Soccer League officials and would not have been aware of the security situation at the time the match was to have started.
	www.contrast.org /hillsborough/history/ellis.shtm (2504 words)

	SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAMS
		The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is the top national league of soccer teams in South Africa.
		The PSL consisted of the following teams during the 2003-2004 season:
		African Wanderers and Bush Bucks were relegated during the 2002-2003 season.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SOUTH+AFRICAN+FOOTBALL+LEAGUE+TEAMS (68 words)

	SoccerThroughTheYears.com \| The First Official History of South African Soccer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Read about the varying fortunes of South Africa's touring teams (in 1899 a side was whipped 13-3 by England's Bolton Wanderers, while seven years later the Springboks thrashed a Brazilian XI 6-0 in Sao Paulo).
		Naidoo, the man who played a huge part in the formation of the South African Soccer League (also known as the "Apartheid League") when so-called "non-whites" followed their white counterparts into the semi-pro era in 1961, is also recorded.
		It must also be noted that the South African Soccer Federation (which was formed in 1951) with its rigid policy of "no normal sport in an abnormal society" did not give up their struggle until the last vestiges of apartheid had been destroyed.
	www.soccerthroughtheyears.com (735 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African \| South Africa triumph
		South Africa beat hosts Mauritius 1-0 on Sunday to win the first Cosafa Cup mini-tournament and qualify for the final competition to be held in August.
		After beating Seychelles on Saturday, where the France-based striker scored two goals, the experimental South African side again proved their potential with a competent performance against an experienced, and near full-strength, Mauritius line-up.
		South Africa will join defending champions Angola and the winners of mini-tournaments in Namibia and Zambia, for the semi-finals and final of the Cosafa Castle Cup over the weekend of 13-14 August at a venue to be decided.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/football/africa/4302555.stm (344 words)

	African Zone - 2010 World Cup 2006 Germany - World Cup 2010 South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		South Africa are the 46th best team in the World in October 2005 according to the FIFA World Ranking System.
		So, we have 30 African teams that are entered into the group stage where there will be five leagues of six teams each.
		These leagues and the current standings and lots more information can be found here.
	www.worldcup2010southafrica.com /African_Zone.html (276 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African \| South Africa prepare for Gold Cup
		South Africa are gearing up for their debut in the Concacaf Gold Cup, which begins in America on Wednesday.
		Just 16 South Africans have begun preparations for their opening Group C match on Friday, when they play holders Mexico in Los Angeles.
		South Africa have been forced to select a second-string outfit for their participation in the continental championship, with just a handful of the country's foreign-based players having made themselves available owing to injuries or club conflicts.
	newsimg.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/football/africa/4657533.stm (418 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| African Nations Cup \| South Africa set up Mali tie
		South Africa and Ghana secured their progress into the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup with victories in the final round of matches in Group B. South Africa's 3-1 win over Morocco in Segou ensured they won the group on goal difference and they will now play the hosts Mali on Sunday.
		South Africa, whose first two group matches had finished goalless, were inspired by Siyabonga Nomvete, a substitute, who set up the first two goals and scored the third.
		Boakye latched on to a cross in the middle of the penalty area and blasted the ball in to level the scores.
	football.guardian.co.uk /africannationscup/story/0,5764,642177,00.html (344 words)

	BBC SPORT \| AFRICA \| SA fans face World Cup black-out
		South African football fans are facing the bleak possibility of missing out on watching the World Cup finals next year.
		The north African, or Maghrebian market, is pooled together with other Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East while the rest of Africa falls under the umbrella of URTNA, the organisation of African radio and television stations.
		South Africa is regarded as a stand-alone market and the with two free-to-air stations plus the highly profitable SuperSport satellite service has the potential to fight over rights fees.
	news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net /sport1/hi/football/africa/1492758.stm (326 words)

	An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet s2
		Lovejoy, Paul E. (ed.) Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade: essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986) full-text.
		South Africa--The Friedrich Ebert Foundation (South Africa) is a private, cultural non-profit institution, committed to the ideas and basic values of Social Democracy and the labour movement.
		South African History Archive Trust is a community archive which strives to recapture our lost and neglected history and record history in the making http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/
	www.lib.msu.edu /limb/a-z/az_s2.html (2835 words)

	allAfrica.com: South Africa: Dozens Crushed, Killed in Johannesburg Soccer Stadium
		The last fatal incident was in 1991 in Orkney, a small South African mining town, when 42 people died in a stampede at a match between the same teams, Pirates and Chiefs.
		He missed the crush and missed the stampede, but was still hunting for his two missing friends outside the stadium, as two police mortuary vans drove in to load the half a dozen remaining bodies, some rigid and unyielding, into their vehicles.
		The derby match was a highlight in the annual South African soccer calendar, and a fixture that was bound to attract huge crowds in a country where football is a national obsession and almost a religion.
	allafrica.com /stories/200104110480.html (1144 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The names of the teams and club officials, which are known to the Sunday Times, cannot be published for legal reasons.
		The inquiry, initiated by the South African Football Association (Safa), took place during the 2003/2004 season, which ended last Wednesday.
		South African soccer fans have long complained of shocking officiating by referees and linesmen, raising suspicions of match-fixing in both the PSL and First Division.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2004/06/13/news/news01.asp (671 words)

	Bafana finally lift Cosafa cup - SouthAfrica.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		South Africa's soccer team, Bafana Bafana, at the weekend beat Malawi 1-0 in the second leg finals of the regional Confederation of South African Football Association's (Cosafa) Castle Cup in Durban to win the competition for the first time after five attempts.
		South Africa emerged 4-1 aggregate winners after routing Malawi's Flames 3-1 in the first leg in Blantyre a week ago.
		Mashaba's team was made up entirely of locally-based players who ply their trade with the Premier Soccer League teams, while Malawi made four changes to the line-up that lost the first leg game on home soil a week ago.
	www.safrica.info /what_happening/sports/cosafa_finals.htm (321 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African \| Champions League preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		African champions Enyimba start their quest for an unprecedented third Caf Champions League title with an away match at Ajax Cape Town in South Africa on Sunday.
		But the Nigerians, who are four points clear at the top of their country's Premier League, have the massive advantage of being in mid-season while Ajax have not played since the end of the South African Premiership season in May.
		Ahly were named as 'Team of the Last Century' by Caf in 2000 while Raja won the Champions League in 1997 and 1999.
	newswww3.thny.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/football/africa/4619785.stm (405 words)

	Savages Football Club, The Oldest Soccer Club In South Africa - (Pieternaritzburg, ) - powered by LeagueLineup.com
		Savages is also the biggest football club in the Kwa Zulu Natal Midlands area and one of the biggest in Natal with 5 senior sides and 15 junior sides participating in the leagues.
		The club participated as a member of the Maritzburg District Football Association (MDFA), affiliated to the Natal Football Association (NFA) in recent history until the NFA’s demise in 1993 when all amateur football in Natal became integrated under the South African Football Association (SAFA).
		The encouragement of junior football began in 1946 through the efforts of the late Claude Forsyth and his sons, as well as Dudley Drury, Bill Johnson and Bertie Howard.
	www.leaguelineup.com /savages (611 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African \| Champions league preview
		Half of the teams that competed in last year's lucrative group stage are likely to be there again.
		But the month-long break in the Nigerian league season will not have been of much benefit in preparing against a Jeanne d'Arc side that were gritty competitors in last year's edition.
		USM Algiers just won the Algerian league title and scored eight goals in their last league match of the season.
	newsimg.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/football/africa/3031009.stm (451 words)

	Chief Club Football Kaizer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		South African football, Kaizer Chiefs and Sony music launched a music project that will see the club’s players and...
		South African glamour club Kaizer Chiefs romped to a record...
		League chief executive officer Joe Ndhlela, rival club bosses Irvin Khoza and Kaizer Motaung and SA Football Association...
	footballnow.250free.com /37/chief-club-football-kaizer.html (552 words)

	THE South African Football Association (SAFA) Southern Gauteng has intervened in the ``soccer crisis’’ facing local ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE South African Football Association (Safa) Southern Gauteng has intervened in the Lenasia "soccer crisis" after a split in the Lenasia Soccer Association (LSA) last month with five prominent football clubs breaking away to form a rival league.
		Athletico, Fordsburg, Bellevue, Botafago and Flamenco resigned from the LSA to form the rival Lenasia Soccer League (LSL), reminiscent of the past.
		"Any person, team, club or association having any connection to an unrecognised structure may be suspended from participating in any or all football under Safa’s jurisdiction for any period of time at the discretion of the executive," said Makhongoza.
	www.lenzinfo.org.za /sport/safa_lenz_crisis_310303.htm (547 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| African Cup of Nations \| South Africans move to Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two South African players have been taken on loan by cash-strapped Greek first division side Aris Salonika.
		Another player reportedly leaving South African football is Namibian defender George Hummel from South African club Moroka Swallows to Russian side Luch Energy.
		Hummel will join several former South Africa-based footballers playing in Russia such as MacBeth Sibaya at Rubin Kazan, Bennet Mnguni at Rostov, and Jacob Lekgetho at Lokomotiv Moscow.
	212.58.240.35 /sport1/low/football/africa/3455359.stm (196 words)

	Soccer news, fixtures & results and features from SaSoccer365.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Absa knockout competition based on the format of the English FA Cup the Absa Cup is aptly themed the battle of ‘David and Goliath’ where eight amateur teams from the SAFA regions qualify.
		The qualifying teams played their way to this stage out of a preliminary knock-out competition.
		The Cup is run under the rules and control of the South African Football Association, but from the last 32 stage to the final of the tournament, it is managed under the auspices of the Premier Soccer League.
	www.sasoccer365.com /Teams/Absa_Cup/story_7726.shtml (262 words)

	International Club Competitions in African Football - The Champions League has arrived in Africa (Football, Soccer, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New in 1997 has been the Champions League after the role model that was installed in European football in the early 90's.
		Club African from Tunisia, the forth North African power finished third in their group while Orlando Pirates from South Africa, the 8th team, were the only only disappointment and gained only 1 point (what is very low, considered the home field advantige weighs more in Africa than in Europe).
		There are some African newspapers with football on the Internet now, so you can have even more reports on matches or club sides from more local point of view.
	www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de /~wille/BALL/AFRICA/club_cup.html (1528 words)

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