African amputees seek victory, pride through soccer
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Obie Sesay has stood on the pitches of Old Trafford and Anfield, the hallowed homes of Manchester United and Liverpool soccer clubs, but on the streets of Freetown he has to beg to survive.
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Soccer has been popular in my city since the seventies, and I vividly remember qualifying for state in two track &amp; field events because the leading girl in my district had injured her knee playing soccer.
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Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa lost ground in their challenge for an African Confederation Cup final place this weekend after losing 1-0 to Astres Douala in Cameroon.
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The deaths of more than 30 Togo and Zambia supporters overshadowed weekend African Nations Cup qualifiers in which superstars Didier Drogba and Sameul Eto&#39;o were among the scorers.
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Former African superstar Abedi 'Pele' Ayew tips his native Ghana to win the African Nations Cup which kicks off here on Sunday.
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By ARIEL DAVID ROME - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St.
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Track and fieldâs world governing body ruled that a double-amputee sprinterâs state-of-the-art prosthetics give him an unfair advantage.
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Brazil's World Cup-winning soccer team is to take on the Haitian side in a "game for peace".
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HOUSTON, Feb. 6 -- Nothing was at stake except national pride -- there were no trophies or tickets to the next World Cup awaiting the winner -- but when the United States and Mexico collide on a soccer field, the ramifications are always magnified.
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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Everton soccer kit featuring the name of the clubâs former hero Wayne Rooney are to be flown to Africa as part of a charity care package, it emerged today.
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In 1904 at the St. Louis Olympic Games, Canada won gold in soccer. In 1936 in Berlin, our nation won silver in basketball. That&#39;s it for traditional team sports.
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By CLARE NULLIS CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.
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Defending champions Egypt took aim at a sixth African Nations Cup title on Thursday when they defeated Ivory Coast 4-1 in the semi-finals to set-up a final showdown on Sunday against Cameroon.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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In a final bid to be eligible to qualify for the Olympic Games, Oscar Pistorius is challenging the ruling that stated his carbon fiber prosthetic blades gave him an unfair advantage.
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Africa may be seen by the rest of the world as a continent dogged by war and poverty, but Africans themselves are fiercely proud of their homeland, a survey conducted by British broadcaster the BBC showed on Monday.