Abedi Ayew Pele, arguably one of the best players Africa has produced and undoubtedly one of the most charismatic one predicted that Senegal and South Africa would go through in the D Group but thinks that Ghana will win their fifth tournament on home soil.
Speaking to a South African newspaper, the three-time African Player of [...]

Before every competition, the captain of every National Team is given the flag as a symbol of responsibility for the battles to come. Aside from the barbaric and historic memories, this tradition is always a great way to send off the team and make them understand that the whole country will be behind them and [...]

After what has been one of the most impressive starts (save for Karim Benzema) in the French league this season, Mamadou Niang, “MR 50%” when it comes to Marseille, has been elected Player of the month for the second month in a row and the fourth time in his career (after may 2005 in [...]

In our last game in Dakar before leaving for Tamalé, Senegal managed to beat a pretty weak-looking namibian team. Not to be disrespectful or anything but we just seemed to be circles around them on this game. Henryk Kasperczak didn’t even have his A-team, with some light injuries for the likes of Habib Bèye and [...]

Criticized for his highly entertaining night-escapades, his judicial problems and his more than questionnable sport performances, the captain of Senegal, El Hadji Diouf nevertheless manages to preserve an unequalled popularity with the supporters, who count on him to pick up the country’s first trophy in the next CAN come February 10th.
It’s in eleven days that [...]

Out of the 23 players picked by Henryk Kasperczak, eight will be at their first ACN in a few weeks. Some of them may not even have played a single time for the national team in an official game but it is somehow nice to see some fresh new faces in the squad. Here are [...]

Pape Diouf, the senegalese president of Marseille is a man whose opinion is very often seeked by the senegalese press and they asked him this sunday his opinion about the possible outcome of the ACN and if he thought Senegal could win it or not. Here is what he answered: ‘‘In the major competitions, technicians [...]

This is the whole press conference that took place this afternoon in Dakar. Only for die-hard fans and french speakers but it’s still a pretty interesting watch.
The national coach is Henryk Kasperczak, polish and french player who famously finished his career at Metz as a player and coached FC Metz(78/84), AS Saint-Etienne(84/87), RC Strasbourg(87/89), RC [...]

Hello, I’m Massaër from the Marseille offside and I’ll be taking over the Senegal World Cup Blog til the next World Cup.
So Henry Kasperczack went at first with the new trend of taking half the country for the ACN. He took 38 players and only three of those knew they were not going to Ghana [...]