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AMAVUBI Stars head coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojovic has been impressed with the form of Tanzanian-based midfielder Patrick Mafisango, who plays for league champions Simba SC.

Africa women’s club championships
Pool A: Pipeline (Ken), NRC (Alg), Nkumba University (Ug), Manga Sport (Gab)
Pool B: Varieties VB (Gab) - FAP (Cam), Prisons (Ken), Canon de Ndjili (I.Coast), Jeshi stars (Tz)

LAST year’s national league runners-up APR have pulled out of this year’s Africa women’s club championships that commenced yesterday in Nairobi at the Kasarani and Africa Nazarene University gymnasiums.

THE four British cyclists who embarked on a 6000 mile journey from St. Bury Edmunds in London to Kigali to raise money for sports equipment in 140 Rwandan schools have already covered over 1100 miles and are now in Belgrade, Serbia.

BAMAKO – Alain Giresse has quit his position as coach of the Mali national side less than a month before the region’s World Cup qualifiers kick off, French media reports said on Thursday.

MADRID – Atletico Madrid need to secure Champions League football next season if they are to hang on to striker Radamel Falcao, club president Miguel Angel Gil Marin said on Thursday.

SAO PAULO – The appointment of an ally of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff to the organising committee of the 2014 World Cup was widely seen by sports experts in the South American country on Wednesday as a last ditch effort to avoid the tournament collapsing.

LONDON – Blackpool thwarted a late rally by Birmingham City in a Championship (second division) playoff on Wednesday, drawing 2-2 to clinch a 3-2 aggregate victory and set up a high-stakes final with West Ham United next week.