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Oluwashina Okeleji (born 1 July) is a Nigerian sports journalist who works for BBC Sport. He reports for the BBC World Service Radio, TV and writes regularly for the BBC African football website about the continent's football and stars around the world. He's in regular contact with many top African players and often travels to Europe to meet them.
The award became centred around football from 2001 onwards, Cameroon's Patrick M'Boma was the last person to win it as a sports award. Nigeria 's Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha , as well as the Ivory Coast 's Yaya Touré and Egypt 's Mohamed Salah are the only players to win the award more than once, with two wins.
The World Football Phone-in is a British weekly radio phone-in show about association football around the world. Hosted by Dotun Adebayo, it is part of the nightly Up All Night programming on BBC Radio 5 Live which he presents. The football show is broadcast in the 2 am to 4 am slot now on Tuesday mornings, and is also released as a podcast ...
The programme features live commentary from the Premier League every weekend as well as the FA Cup finals during the English football season, however it is for 15:00 Saturday and 16:30 Sunday kickoffs only. Correspondents in Spain and Italy cover La Liga and Serie A. Live sport is mixed with debate, discussion and analysis of the leading sport ...
Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.
Football was first introduced to Africa in the early 1860s by Europeans, [4] due to the colonisation of Africa.The first recorded games were played in South Africa in 1862 between soldiers and civil servants and there were no established rules for the game at this time; [5]" Initially, there were various forms of playing the game, which included elements of both rugby and soccer.
The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations final was a football match played on 11 February 2024 between Ivory Coast and Nigeria. It determined the winner of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations , the 34th edition of the biennial African tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
During the match, two penalties for Senegal in the first half were denied by VAR. They nonetheless defeated the Stallions by a score of 3–1, courtesy of goals from Abdou Diallo, Bamba Dieng, and Sadio Mane. [26] This meant the West African nation reached their second consecutive Africa Cup of Nations final. [27]