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African Roundup South Africa to hold training camp in SpainPosted: Tuesday January 21, 2003 11:02 AMUpdated: Tuesday January 21, 2003 11:18 AM JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -- South Africa are to hold a training camp for their European-based players in Spain next month, coach Ephraim Mashaba said on Tuesday. The camp in Murcia will be for 26 players and held from February 9-14, which has been designated on the FIFA calendar as a date for international friendly matches. A plan to hold a camp in Germany had been cancelled because of the potential for bad weather in northern Europe in February. Mashaba told Reuters two friendly matches against local opposition were planned. "There are a few players I have not seen for a long time," he added. "The idea of the get together is to look at all our key foreign-based players and also to talk them to them about their attitudes regarding playing for the national side." Mashaba said he hoped to finalize his list of players by the end of the week but said it would include all the country's top players. South Africa has players playing in the leagues in Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. South Africa do not have an international match arranged until the end of March. Last year they played a World Cup warm-up match against Ecuador in Murcia. A similar training camp was held in Switzerland in 1998 before the World Cup finals in France under the then coach Philippe Troussier. Five uncapped players named in Cameroon squadYAOUNDE (Reuters) -- Cameroon have named five uncapped players in a 20-man squad for a friendly international against the Ivory Coast next month and a training camp in France, the country's football federation said on Tuesday. Cameroon will play the Ivorians in Chateauroux, France on February 11, the day before the draw for the France-hosted Confederations Cup in which Cameroon are competing during June. Cameroon coach Winfried Schaefer will hold a training camp from February 9-12, which has been earmarked as an international weekend on the FIFA calendar. Schaefer, who is based in Germany, has called up uncapped players Mohammadou Idrissou from Bundesliga club Hannover, Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe from Auxerre and Achille Emana of Toulouse, a 20-year-old striker born in France. He has also brought in two locally-based players -- Marc Gouiffe Goufan and Jean-Paul Boya from Sahel Maroua, a second division club. Gouiffe Goufan was on trial this month at VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg in Germany. The match against the Ivorians will be Cameroon's first international since they lost 2-0 to Germany at the World Cup finals in Japan last June. Squad: Goalkeepers: Boukar Alioum (Istanbulspor, Turkey), Idriss Carlos Kameni (Le Havre, France). Defenders: Geremi Fotso Njitap (Middlesbrough, England), Marc Gouiffe Goufan (Sahel Maroua), Lucien Mettomo (Manchester City, England), Pierre Njanka (Sedan, France), Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe (Auxerre, France), Rigobert Song (Lens, France), Bill Tchato (Kaiserlautern, Germany), Pierre Wome (Fulham, England). Midfielders: Thimothee Atouba (F Basle, Switzerland), Jean-Paul Boya (Sahel Maroua), Eric Djemba Djemba (Nantes, France), Marc-Vivien Foe (Manchester City, England), Salomon Olembe (Marseille, France). Strikers: Cyrille Florent Bella (LR Ahlen, Germany), Achille Emana (Toulouse), Samuel Eto'o (Real Mallorca, Spain), Mohammadou Idrissou (Hannover, Germany), Joseph-Desire Job (Middlesbrough, England). ALGERIASecond placed USM Blida has their Algerian first division match against NA Hussein-Dey on Monday called off after an hour when the visitors were left with just six players after three red cards and a succession of injuries.Referee Hireche called the game off in the 60th minute with Blida leading 1-0. Earlier, the official had sent off two players from Hussein-Dey before handing the home side a penalty in the 43rd minute after which goalkeeper Toual was also red carded. Three substitutes at halftime, including bringing on their reserve goalkeeper as a midfielder, depleted their available numbers and when two players were carried off injured after the break, the referee was forced to call the game off. SENEGALLiverpool striker El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf has won the Golden Star award as Africa's best footballer for 2002, awarded by the French-based magazine Afrique Football.The award rivals the annual African Footballer of the Year, which is organized by the Confederation of African Football. Diouf is also one of three candidates for the Footballer of the Year, to be announced on March 31. Diouf helped Senegal to the World Cup quarter-finals last year and also the final of the 2002 African Nations Cup in Mali. He finished with 186 points in Afrique Football's poll of journalists from 54 African countries. Compatriot Pape Bouba Diop was second with 64 points and Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon third with 39 points. Last week, Diouf won a radio poll as the African personality of 2002. SOUTH AFRICAFormer South Africa captain Neil Tovey has been appointed as the new coach of the struggling Cape Town club Hellenic, the club announced on Tuesday.The 40-year-old won 52 caps for South Africa and captained them to the 1996 African Nations Cup title but has had an unspectacular and brief career as a coach since retiring. He spent several months with Mamelodi Sundowns and at AmaZulu and was also briefly assistant coach of the South African under-20 team before being removed from the post. At Hellenic, Tovey takes over the Yugoslav Zoran Pesic, sacked last year. Hellenic, who are the longest surviving professional club in South Africa, are one place above the relegation zone in the 16-team premier league. Tovey debuts in a league match against second-from-bottom Black Leopards in Cape Town on Saturday. His contract runs until the end of the season in May. GHANAGerman coach Ralf Zumdick will be not retained by Ghanaian club Asante Kotoko for the new season, officials said on Tuesday.Zumdick spent two months with the Kumasi-based club last year, guiding them into the final of the African Cup Winners' Cup, where they lost on the away goal rule to Wydad Casablanca of Morocco. Officials said they had decided not to renew Zumdick's contract, preferring to look for a locally-based coach. Kotoko also employed the former Chelsea manager Ian Porterfield last year but he left after three months after a row with the club chairman Herbert Mensah over team selection. A third coach, Ernest Middendorp of Germany left last July after his contract expired.
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