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Portal:Football in Africa
Introduction
Football is the most popular sport in Africa, alongside basketball. Indeed, football is probably the most popular sport in almost every African country, although rugby and cricket are also very popular in South Africa. The first football stadium to be built in Africa was the Alexandria Stadium in 1929.
The English Premier League is the most popular sports league in Africa. The most popular clubs in Africa are Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United. (Full article...)
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Al-Ahly Sporting Club (Arabic: النادي الأهلي للرياضة البدنية), commonly known as Al-Ahly, is an Egyptian professional sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest tier in the Egyptian football league system. The club is renowned for its consistent success at both domestic and continental levels, regularly contending in CAF tournaments.
Founded on 24 April 1907 by Omar Lotfy, Al-Ahly has a record of 44 Egyptian Premier League titles, 39 Egypt Cup titles and 15 Egyptian Super Cups. Al-Ahly is the most successful club in Africa.
In international competitions, Al-Ahly has won a record 12 CAF Champions League titles, 1 CAF Confederation Cup, a record of 8 CAF Super Cups, a record of 4 African Cup Winners' Cups, 1 Afro-Asian Club Championship, 1 Arab Club Champions Cup, 1 Arab Cup Winners' Cup, a record of 2 Arab Super Cups, and has won 4 bronze medals in the FIFA Club World Cup, With 26 continental titles, Al Ahly was voted by CAF as the African club of the 20th century. Al-Ahly became the most valuable sports club in Africa, with a market value of €30 million as of the 2023-24 season.
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Beginning his career with Italian club A.C. Milan, Aubameyang was loaned out to Dijon FCO for the 2008–09 season in order to gain some first team experience. His performances there led him to appear in World Soccer's Talent Scout section in the summer of 2009. On 24 June 2009, it was announced Ligue 1 club Lille OSC had decided to sign Aubameyang on loan. The following season, he was loaned out again, this time to AS Monaco. On 21 August 2010, Aubameyang scored his first goal for Monaco in an away match versus RC Lens. He scored again on 29 August at home to AJ Auxerre where his Monaco team won 2–0.
In January 2011, after six months at Monaco, Aubameyang was loaned to AS Saint-Étienne until the end of the 2010–11 season. In July 2011, the loan was extended for the entire 2011–12 season. On 22 December 2011, Aubameyang signed with Saint-Étienne on a permanent deal. After one and a half successful seasons with the club, he joined Champions League finalists Borussia Dortmund on a five year contract. Winning the 2013 DFL-Supercup in his debut, he received plaudits for his technical skills and finishing; gaining comparisons to Thierry Henry. He made his Bundesliga debut and scored a hat-trick against FC Augsburg, including a goal from his first shot in the league.
In the following seasons at Dortmund, Aubameyang established himself as one of the best forwards in the world, as he recorded 141 goals in 213 games, including a 31-goal haul in 2016–17 as he won the league's top scorer award. However, after only recording another DFL-Supercup and a DFB-Pokal to his name in Germany, he voiced his desire to leave, and relocated to England to join Premier League side Arsenal in a club-record deal worth £56 million (€64 million), making him the most expensive Gabonese player of all time.
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This is a football match between women and girls in Muguluka, Jinja, Uganda during the Women's Day Celebration event. The women beat the girls 1-0.
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Sources
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- ^ a b c Alegi, Peter (2010). African Soccerscapes. Ohio University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9780896802780.
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- ^ "World Cup Witchcraft: Africa Teams Turn to Magic for Aid". National Geographic. Archived from the original on July 10, 2006. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
- ^ Andy Mitten (September 2010). The Rough Guide to Cult Football. Rough Guides UK. ISBN 9781405387965. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
- ^ "African Nations Cup overshadowed by hocus pocus | Football". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ^ Kuper, Simon (2006). Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World's Most Popular Sport Starts and Stops Wars, Fuels Revolutions, and Keeps Dictators in Power. Nation Books. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-56025-878-0.
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