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Académie SOAR
Académie Super Olympique d'une Afrique Renaissante, commonly known as SOAR and formerly known as CO Coyah, is a Guinean football club located in Ratoma, Guinea. The club competes in the Ligue 1 Pro, the top division of football in Guinea. Nicknamed SOAR, it was founded as CO Coyah in, but changed its name to Académie Super Olympique d'une Afrique Renaissante in 2019. SOAR has established itself as a talent generator developing young players most notably Morlaye Sylla. History Coyah was first promoted into the Guinée Championnat National for the 2016–17 season. Founded as ''Club Olympique de Coyah'' (''CO Coyah'' or short), had pretty rough times in the league bouncing back between the first and second league. In 2019 as CO Coyah had been promoted they had been bought by Almamy Saidou Sylla who rebranded the club as ''SOAR''. The club became a talent generator focusing on promoting young players. The same season the club finished 4th. In the 2021/22 the club finished sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade 28 Septembre
Stade du 28 Septembre is a multi-purpose stadium in Conakry, Guinea. It is currently used mostly for association football, football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people. In an attempt to host the 2023 African Cup of Nations (ANC), or Coupe d'Afrique des Nations (CAN) in French, proposals have been made to upgrade or reconstruct the 28 September Stadium to an all seater capacity of 45,000–50,000 people. Events *some of the association football, Football matches of Guinea national football team, the national team *association football, Football matches of major teams of Guinea *Funeral of Ahmed Sékou Touré and *Funeral of general Lansana Conté *political meetings Name The Stadium gets its name from 28 September. The day Guinea famously voted NO in the French referendum, which ultimately led to the political independence of Guinea on 2 October 1958. Guinea-Conakry (formerly French Guinea) is the first former French colony in Sub-Saharan Africa to attain politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conakry
Conakry ( , ; ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at two million, accounting for one-sixth of the entire population of the country. History Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a stretch of land wide. The city was essentially founded after Britain ceded the island to France in 1887. In 1885, the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904, and prospered as an export port, particularly after a railway (now closed) to Kankan opened up the interior of the country for the large-scale export of peanut, groundnut. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinée Championnat National
The Guinée Championnat National (colloquially called Ligue 1 Pro) is the top level of Guinée Championnat National football competition created in 1965 under the authority of the Guinean Football Federation in Guinea. Ligue 1 Pro 2021–22 teams Champions * 1965: AS Kaloum Star (1) * 1966: Hafia FC (1) * 1967: Hafia FC (2) * 1968: Hafia FC (3) * 1969: AS Kaloum Star (2) * 1970: AS Kaloum Star (3) * 1971: Hafia FC (4) * 1972: Hafia FC (5) * 1973: Hafia FC (6) * 1974: Hafia FC (7) * 1975: Hafia FC (8) * 1976: Hafia FC (9) * 1977: Hafia FC (10) * 1978: Hafia FC (11) * 1979: Hafia FC (12) * 1980: AS Kaloum Star (4) * 1981: AS Kaloum Star (5) * 1982: Hafia FC (13) * 1983: Hafia FC (14) * 1984: AS Kaloum Star (6) * 1985: Hafia FC (15) * 1986: Horoya AC (1) * 1987: AS Kaloum Star (7) * 1988: Horoya AC (2) * 1989: Horoya AC (3) * 1990: Horoya AC (4) * 1991: Horoya AC (5) * 1992: Horoya AC (6) * 1993: AS Kaloum Star (8) * 1994: Horoya AC (7) * 1995: AS Kaloum Star (9) * 1996: AS Kalou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratoma
Ratoma is an urban sub-prefecture in the Conakry Region of Guinea and one of five in the capital Conakry Conakry ( , ; ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of C .... As of 2014 it had a population of 653,934 people. References Sub-prefectures of Conakry {{Guinea-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morlaye Sylla
Morlaye Sylla (born 27 July 1998) is a Guinean international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arouca and the Guinea national team. International career Sylla made his debut with the Guinea national team in a 1–0 2020 African Nations Championship qualification loss to Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ... on 21 September 2019. References External links * * Morlaye Syllaat Horoya.com 1998 births Living people Footballers from Conakry Susu people Guinean men's footballers Guinea men's international footballers Guinea men's under-20 international footballers Guinea men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Fello Star players Académie SOAR players Horoya AC players F.C. Arouca players Guinée C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horoya AC
Horoya Athletic Club, also known as Horoya Conakry or H.A.C., is a Guinean professional football club based in Conakry, Guinea. The club plays in the Ligue 1 Pro, the top tier in the Guinean football league system. It was founded in 1975. History In 2014, they eliminated the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup runner-up Raja Casablanca in the second qualifying round of the 2014 CAF Champions League. In 2018, after finishing second in the group stage of the CAF Champions League, the club reached the quarter-finals for the first time in its history, where it lost against Al Ahly SC 4–0 on aggregate ( 0–0 in Conakry and 4–0 in Cairo). Club identity The name ''Horoya'' means ''Liberty'' or ''Freedom'' in both Guinea's local and Arabic languages. The word comes from the huge and significant Arabic influence on Guinean society. Home shirt Its Home shirt colours are red and white. The red, symbol of blood of the martyrs for the independence struggle and white for great purity and ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béni Makouana
Béni Makouana (born 28 September 2002) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ukrainian Premier League club LNZ Cherkasy, on loan from Polissya Zhytomyr, and the Congo national team. Club career During the early part of his career in his native Congo, Makouana won the 2018 Coupe du Congo with the Diables Noirs. He then went on to join Académie SOAR in Guinea in 2019. On 19 October 2020, he signed for Montpellier in France for a reported transfer fee of €800,000. He was handed the number 28 jersey at the club, and initially began training with the reserve side. On 8 August 2021, Makouana made his professional debut for Montpellier as he came on as a late substitute in a 3–2 Ligue 1 loss to Marseille. In March 2025, Makouana joined LNZ Cherkasy on loan from fellow Ukrainian Premier League club Polissya Zhytomyr. International career Makouana made his debut for the Congo national team on 11 October 2018, coming on as a substitute in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachid Ghaflaoui
Rachid Ghaflaoui (Arabic: رشيد الغفلاوي; born January 1, 1973) is a Moroccan football coach. He is the current coach of the Moroccan club AS Salé which plays in the Botola 2. Career Born in Marrakech in Morocco, Ghaflaoui was appointed in 2014 as coach of Nigerien club Sahel SC, before joining Congolese club Sanga Balende in February 2016, which he managed to qualify for the Confederation Cup by finishing third place of the Congolese champion. In November 2017, he re-signed with the Nigerien club Sahel SC, a club with which he won the country's Cup and Supercup during the same season, before signing with the Ivorian club Williamsville Athletic Club the following season. In 2020, he joined the Guinean club Académie SOAR, then in 2021, the Bahraini club Bahrain SC with which he will achieve the promotion to the Bahraini Premier League. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
