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2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
The 2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 8th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the CAF representatives. Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions. Teams A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. Format Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loza Abera
Loza Abera Geinore (Amharic:ሎዛ አበራ) is an Ethiopian professional footballer who currently plays for Nigd Bank of the Ethiopian Women's Premier League and the Ethiopia women's national team as a forward. Early life She was the third child of her family and the only female player in her neighborhood, she used to play football with mainly male composed teams both in school football matches and neighborhood football matches in her town Durame, Loza started playing football at the age of six. In 2011, she participated in the All Ethiopian games representing the SNNP regional state, a tournament in which she scored seven goals and that become her initial momentum to get noticed by Ethiopian Woman National Team recruiters. Club career Ethiopia Abera joined her first professional club, Hawassa City S.C. Women, in 2012. Spending two years at the club, she helped the club to two 3rd-place finishes in the league while being the team's top goal scorer for both seasons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djibouti (city)
Djibouti (also called Djibouti City and in many early English texts and on many early maps, Jibuti; so, Magaalada Jabuuti, french: link=no, Ville de Djibouti, ar, مدينة جيبوتي, aa, Gabuutî Magaala) is the eponymous capital of Djibouti, and has more people than the rest of Djibouti combined. It is located in the coastal Djibouti Region on the Gulf of Tadjoura. Djibouti has a population of around 600,000 inhabitants, which counts for 54% of the country's population. The settlement was founded in 1888 by the French, on land leased from the ruling Somali and Afar Sultans. During the ensuing period, it served as the capital of French Somaliland and its successor the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. Known as the ''Pearl of the Gulf of Tadjoura'' due to its location, Djibouti is strategically positioned near the world's busiest shipping lanes and acts as a refueling and transshipment center. The Port of Djibouti is the principal maritime port for imports to and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest growing megacities. The city of Kinshasa is also one of the DRC's 26 provinces. Because the administrative boundaries of the city-province cover a vast area, over 90 percent of the city-province's land is rural in nature, and the urban area occupies a small but expanding section on the western side. Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is also the world's largest nominally Francophone urban area, with French being the language of government, education, media, public services and high-end commerce in the city, while Lingala is used as a ''lingua franca'' in the street. Kinshasa hosted the 14th Francophonie Summit in October 2012. Residents of Kinshasa are known as ''Kinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Tata Raphaël
Stade Tata Raphaël (Father Raphael Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Originally known as Stade Roi Baudouin (King Baudouin Stadium) when it was inaugurated in 1952 and Stade du 20 Mai (20 May Stadium) in 1967, it was used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 80,000 people. History The stadium's most famous event was The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for the Undisputed WBC/ WBA Heavyweight Championship that took place on October 30, 1974. 60,000 people attended the boxing match. In what was ranked as a great upset, Ali knocked out the previously undefeated Foreman in eight rounds. The associated music festival, Zaire 74, that took place at the stadium six weeks prior to the boxing match, included stars James Brown and B.B. King. Following the downfall of President Mobutu Sese Seko's regime in 1997, the stadium was renamed Stade Tata Raphaël after Raphaël de la Ket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émeraude Mawanda
Aimeraude Muyenga Mawanda (born 25 March 1998) is a DR Congolese footballer who plays as a defender for TP Mazembe and the DR Congo women's national team. Club career Mawanda has played for FCF Attaque Sans Recul and TP Mazembe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. International career Mawanda made her senior debut for the DR Congo on 25 March 2021 in a 4–0 friendly home win over Congo. International goals ''Scores and results list DR Congo goal tally first.'' See also * List of Democratic Republic of the Congo women's international footballers This is a non-exhaustive list of Democratic Republic of the Congo women's international footballers – association football players who have appeared at least once for the senior DR Congo women's national football team. Players See also ... References External links * * 1998 births Living people Democratic Republic of the Congo women's footballers Women's association football defenders TP Mazembe players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merveille Mbemba
This is a non-exhaustive list of Democratic Republic of the Congo women's international footballers – association football players who have appeared at least once for the senior DR Congo women's national football team. Players See also * DR Congo women's national football team References {{Association football players International footballers Congo, Democratic Republic of the The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ... Football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Association football player non-biographical articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joëlle Mwadi
Joëlle is a French feminine given name, the feminine form of Joel. Notable people with the name include: * Joëlle Aubron (1959–2006), French anarchist * Joëlle Békhazi (born 1987), Canadian water polo player * Joëlle Bergeron (born 1949), French politician * Joëlle Bernard (1928–1977), French actress * Joëlle Brupbacher (1978–2011), Swiss mountaineer * Joëlle Cartaux, French figure skater * Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaud (born 1951), French politician * Joëlle De Brouwer (born 1950), French runner * Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam (born 1955), French politician * Joëlle Jones, American comics artist * Joëlle Kapompolé (born 1971), Belgian politician * Joëlle Léandre (born 1951), French double bassist * Joëlle Milquet (born 1961), Belgian politician * Joëlle Mogensen (1953–1982), French singer * Joëlle Morosoli, Canadian artist * Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin (born 1986), Cameroonian athlete * Joëlle van Noppen (1980–2010), Dutch singer * Joëlle Numainville (born 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambia Football Federation
The Gambia Football Federation (GFF), formerly known as the Gambia Football Association, is the governing body of football in Gambia. It was founded in 1952, and affiliated to FIFA in 1968 and to CAF in 1966. It organizes the GFA League First Division, the GFA League Second Division and the national team. The current president is Lamin Kaba Bajo since September 2014. References External links Gambiaat the FIFA website. Gambiaat CAF Online Gambia Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... Football in the Gambia Sports organizations established in 1952 {{Gambia-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's name is often shortened to ''Ouaga''. The inhabitants are called ''ouagalais''. The spelling of the name ''Ouagadougou'' is derived from the French orthography common in former French African colonies. Ouagadougou's primary industries are food processing and textiles. It is served by an international airport and is linked by rail to Abidjan in the Ivory Coast and, for freight only, to Kaya. There are several highways linking the city to Niamey, Niger, south to Ghana, and southwest to Ivory Coast. Ouagadougou has one of West Africa's largest markets, which burned down in 2003 and has since reopened with better facilities and improved fire-prevention measures. Other attractions include the National Museum of Burkina Faso, the Moro-Naba Palac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Municipal (Ouagadougou)
Stade Dr. Issoufou Joseph Conombo is a multi-use stadium in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of Santos Football Club Santos Futebol Clube (), commonly known simply as Santos or Santos FC and nicknamed the ''Peixe'' (; "fish"), is a Brazilian sports club based in Vila Belmiro, a ''bairro'' in the city of Santos. It is also the team with the most goals in .... The stadium holds 25,000 people. References Football venues in Burkina Faso Buildings and structures in Ouagadougou {{BurkinaFaso-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphanie Sow
Stéphanie is a feminine French feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born 1984), Belgian noble; wife of Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg *Princess Stéphanie (other), several people * Stéphanie Arricau (born 1973), French golfer *Stéphanie Atger (born 1975), French politician *Stéphanie Blake (born 1968), author of children's stories *Stéphanie Bouvier (born 1981), short track speed-skater * Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789–1860), consort of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden *Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (born 1983), French tennis player *Stéphanie Dixon (born 1984), Canadian swimmer * Stéphanie Dubois (born 1986), Canadian tennis player *Stéphanie Falzon (born 1983), French hammer thrower *Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin (1746–1830), French writer and educator *Stéphanie Foretz (born 1981), French tennis player *Stéphanie Jiménez (born 1974), Andorran mountain runner *Stà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
