Free on-line DVD. Takes a long time to download. African football legends and stars. Africa and the World Cup. The 53 football associations. Africa Cup of Nations. http://africanfootball.fifa.com/
Podcasts (fast iternet connection is best) include the potential impact of the 2010 World Cup on grassroots soccer in South Africa by 3 former professional players, Africa and FIFA, African players in Europe, Peter Alegi's book, African Soccerscapes. http://afripod.aodl.org/?tag=soccer
"The African Football Confederation was founded in 1957, it consists
of all African National Football Associations which are members of FIFA and
recognized by it as the official bodies controlling football in there respective
countries." Has some issues of its journal, CAF News, online
in Adobe PDF. Based in Cairo, Egypt. http://www.cafonline.com/
Bibliography of books, articles, films, web sites on the World Cup 2010, football, and sport in Africa. Background on football and Africa. http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Webdossiers/Football.aspx
Article on the site of South African History Online. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/artsmediaculture/culture%20&%20heritage/sport/football-history.htm
See also Umdlalo Wabantu: A History of Soccer in
Pre-Apartheid South Africa, by Alegi. 2 p. in PDF.
Kofi Annan writes on the World Cup. "Global Policy Forum’s mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations, promote accountability of global decisions...." Based in New York city. http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2006/0609kofifootball.htm
In French. Cameroon's national soccer team. Game results, game news, team
organization, reports on injuries, transfers, facts about players, team awards,
photographs. http://www.camlions.com/
Matt Dearing's extensive interviews (and video) with Malawians (former govt. Minister, University of California Professor, Sam Mchombo, sports directors, a driver, orphanage director, prison warden). Topics include life in Malawi, youth development, political economy, sports (soccer) including women's football, and Malawi youth community service. Dearing worked with a youth soccer team in Blantyre, Malawi and is Co-Director of the Sports Alliance of Malawi. http://www.mattdearing.com/index_files/conversations.html
"online news magazine created by Mamo Gebrehiwot in 1997/8 to promote and support Ethiopian Soccer, Athletics & Cycling." News, athlete interviews, especially strong on soccer / football, sports tourism. [KF] http://www.ethiosports.com/
Women's football world-wide. For facts / statistics see under Document - Women's Football Today (a PDF file). http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/developing/women/index.html
Soccer team of refugees from Congo, Gambia, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, and other countries led by a Jordanian woman coach. The team is based in Clarkston, Georgia. The New York Times (Jan. 21, 2007) had a front page story on the team, Refugees Find Hostility and Hope on Soccer Field, By Warren St. John. The NYT site also has a video. They have a Newsletter. http://www.fugeesfamily.org/
The 2006 event was in Cape Town, South Africa, 23 - 30 September. The 5th Homeless World Cup is in Copenhagen 29 July - 4 August 2007. At least 48 countries and 500 homeless players participated in 2006. Player profiles. For the 2005 Edinburgh event, the U.K. Government denied visas to the teams from Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Burundi and Zambia. South Africa and Namibia were able to attend. The on-line shop supports the teams. [KF] http://www.homelessworldcup.org/
"on the Liberia national football team, scores and game highlights, stories, players profile, pictures and interviews of players." http://www.liberiansoccer.com/
83 pages in PDF. Bibliography of books, chapters in books, web sites, journal articles with abstracts, unpublished papers, films. Introduction. http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/asl/info/Soccerbibliography01.pdf
Site for the film about organized football played among prisoners on Robben Island, South Africa. "the story of how political activists who were unjustly imprisoned on Robben Island in the 1960s rise above their incarceration by creating a football league, the Makana Football Association (Makana FA)" http://www.morethanjustagame.co.za/
Find the Hausa, Lingala, Mandenkan and Swahili equivalents for words used in
Track and Field,
Boxing, and Football (soccer). From the Canadian Government Translation Bureau. http://www.btb.gc.ca/btb.php?lang=eng&cont=448
Has an interactive map of the origin of European players. Click on Cote d'Ivoire and find a list of the players and their club, age, position. Produces studies of soccer in Europe. http://www.eurofootplayers.org/
The clothing company's Africa-related activities. Collaborated with New York artist Kehinde Wiley who created "four original portraits, featuring three of Africa's.... football players" [Emmanuel Eboue, John Mensah, Samuel Eto'o]. Puma's Africa Unity Kit was created for all African teams in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). http://africa.puma.com/html/
"The African Activist Association presents a soccer conference [May 31, 2006] with presentations and a panel discussion, as well as a film screening of Le Ballon d'or (The Golden Ball)."
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/africa/events/showevent.asp?eventid=4797
Article on Didier Drogba by Austin Merrill on the June 3, 2007 Ivory Coast - Madagascar match in Bouaké, Ivory Coast. "A single soccer match achieves what five years of combat and negotiations could not: an apparent end to Ivory Coast's civil war. The man who brought the warring sides together was not a politician or a gun-toting strongman, but Didier Drogba, the star striker for Ivory Coast." Photos. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/07/ivorycoast200707?currentPage=1
Web sites on the 2006 World Cup. Maintained by Stanford Univerity Libraries. http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/sports/world-cup-2006-germany.html
Site also called GO CHIPOLOPOLO GO ZAMBIA. Chipolopolo (the Copper Bullets) is the Zambia national team's nickname. "This website gives publicity to Zambian players, coaches, administrators and corporate partners. The website also has information on African soccer news." Includes links to YouTube videos. http://www.zambianfootball.blogspot.com/
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