Maiden victory for Zambia against a really hardcore opponent Ivory-Coast in the African Nations cup final in 8-7 in penalty shootout following a goalless draw in 120 minutes at Friendship Stadium in Libreville, Gabon. This is 7th time only African Nations cup final was decided through penalty shoot-out. From the beginning of the tournament Ivory Coast was the real hot favourites in the another hand Zambians were the underdogs.Throughout the entire match the African icon Didider Drogba looked a fair bit of inactive, even he missed a penalty in the 70th minute of the game too which could have been a decider in fore of Ivory Coast & Drogba could have been the hero also. It looked like the ghost of 2006 African Nations cup final against Egypt is still following Drogba, where Drogba did the same & Egypt became the champion. Two of the other EPL players Kolo Tore & Gervinho missed kicks in the shootout although Drogba converted his kick in shootout. Stoppila Sunzu of Zambia scored the decissive penalty after a long 18th kicks in shootout.
It looks like the problems regarding Premiere League Soccer are ressolved. In an emergency meeting in New Delhi AIFF gave the approval to IFA, it ended the uncertainty over the kick-off of this tournament in West Bengal.
Tonight defending champion Barcelona is going to take German side Bayern Leverkusen in pre-quarter final of UEFA champions league in Leverkusen. That is the testing time for Bara now, they are almost out of the La-Liga championship, their arch-rival Real Madrid almost grabbed the La-Liga crown. Apart from that they lost in their last La-Liga match against Osasuna in Madrid in the other hand Real Madrid won their match against Real Down Levante convincingly. Its time to see what can Indian origin coach Robin Dutt do against superior side Barcelona in UEFA Champions league pre-quarter.
NO PLACE FOR OLD KAKA...The Brazil squad for their friendly against Bosnia-Herzegovina has been announced leaving Kaka out of the list... Ronaldinho has been included; Santos duo Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso were also named--but no mention of Kaka
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