African Sports Monthly January 2013 Issue | Page 27

Ivorian
midfielder
Yaya Toure
made it two
titles in a row
by winning the
2012 African
Player of the
Year at a
glamorous
Glo-CAF
Awards Gala

“Former
Liberia
great
George
Weah
has
been
handed the task of finding a successor
to national Coach Kaetu Smith who had
only been in charge for seven months
but whose reign had seen Liberia collect just one point from their two FIFA
World Cup qualifiers”

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi left star
strikers Peter Odemwingie and Obafemi
Martins out of his squad for the 2013
CAF Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa

A look ahead promises a landmark
year for the sport. New tournaments,
World Championship qualifiers and
new formats and teams for the World
League and World Grand Prix are set

President of the
FIVB Graca, visited Algeria from
December 6 to 9 in
his first official visit
to an African country The event brought together some
1,500 athletes from different provinces of
the country, and each went home with a
ball and FIVB-branded jersey

The Nanjing 2014
Youth Olympic
Games Organizing
Committee
(NYOGOC) unveiled its official
mascot:
"NANJINGLELE". NANJINGLELE is
inspired by a unique natural feature
of the host city known as the "RainFlower Pebble"
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