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Football is the most popular sport inAfrica, alongsidebasketball. Indeed, football is probably the most popular sport in almost every African country, althoughrugby andcricket are also very popular inSouth Africa. The firstfootball stadium to be built in Africa was theAlexandria Stadium in 1929.
TheEnglish Premier League is the most popular sports league in Africa. The most popular clubs in Africa areArsenal,Chelsea andManchester United. (Full article...)
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Football was first introduced to Africa in the early 1860s by Europeans,[1] due to thecolonisation 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;[2]" Initially, there were various forms of playing the game, which included elements of both rugby and soccer. It was not until October 26, 1863 that the "rules of association football were codified."[2] The first official football organization in Africa, Pietermaritzburg County Football Association, was established in 1880.Teams were being established in South Africa before 1900, Egypt and in Algeria during a similar time period. Savages FC (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa), L'Oranaise Club (Oran, Algeria) andGezira SC (Alexandria, Egypt) are the oldest African football clubs that remain in existence. The tree clubs began play in 1882, followed byAlexandria SC (1890),CDJ Oran from Algeria in 1894 and CAL Oran from Algeria too in 1897. By the 1930s, football was being played in Central Africa. In 1882, the first national governing body on the continent was formed, South African Football Association (SAFA). SAFA was a whites-only association that became the first member of FIFA in South Africa in 1910.[2]
Al-Merrikh Sporting Club (Arabic:نادي المريخ الرياضي) is a Sudanese professionalfootball club based in the city ofOmdurman. Their home stadium isAl-Merrikh Stadium, which is locally known as The Red Castle. Founded in 1908, Al-Merrikh is one of the oldest football clubs in Africa and competes in theSudan Premier League. The club currently competes in theRwanda Premier League, the top-flight of football inRwanda, due to the ongoingSudanese civil war.
Adebayor represented theTogo national team at the2006 FIFA World Cup inGermany, the country's début, and to date only, appearance at theWorld Cup. In January 2010, Adebayor was one of the players involved when the Togo team'sbus came under gunfire on the way to the2010 Africa Cup of Nations inAngola, after which he retired from national team duty. In 2013 he returned to the Togo team for the2013 African Cup of Nations in South Africa, where he helped them to qualify for the quarterfinals. He is currently Togo'sall-time top goalscorer with 27 goals.
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Fans of theAngola national team cheer on their side during their quarter-final clash againstEgypt at the2008 Africa Cup of Nations. The Angola national team is controlled by theAngolan Football Federation, and qualified for a World Cup finals for the first time in2006, where they were eliminated after one defeat and two draws in the group stage.
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