Bayer Leverkusen Vs.Atlético de Madrid
Schalke Vs. Real Madrid
Arsenal Vs .Monaco
Juventus Vs. Borussia Dortmund
Shakhtar Donetsk Vs. Bayern München
Manchester City Vs.FC Barcelona
Paris Saint-Germain Vs. Chelsea
FC Basel Vs. Porto
Group A
Clubs /P /W /D /L /F /A /GD /Pts
Atlético de Madrid /6 /4 /1 /1 /14 /3 /11 /13
Juventus / 6 /3 /1 /2 /7 /4 /3 /10
Olympiacos FC /6 /3 /0 /3 /10 /13 /-3 /9
Malmö / 6 /1 /0 /5 /4 /15 /-11 /3
Group B
Clubs /P /W /D /L /F /A /GD /Pts
Real Madrid / 6 /6 /0 /0 /16 /2 /14 /18
FC Basel /6 /2 /1 /3 /7 /8 /-1 /7
Liverpool /6 /1 /2 /3 /5 /9 /-4 /5
Ludogorets Razgrad /6 /1 /1 /4 /5 /14 /-9 /4
As you know FIFA is organizing every four year football world cup ,it is the most important sport event in the planet with Olympic games ,but the countless scandals of corruption in which FIFA is the biggest player make many sponsor like Sony ,Fly emirates and Coca-Cola consider to withdraw their support to FIFA and its many sport event throughout the world .
But Soccer is a such powerful marketing tool for huge companies, so some sponsors will stay sponsoring FIFA despite all these scandals, because so much money are involved and it is too difficult to reach the scale of people without the world cup, therefore it is difficult for many sponsors to pull out .
As you know morocco is out of Africa cup 2015 ,officially due to Ebola ,and Equatorial Guinea is in ,this small country in west Africa will host this football cup for the second time ,after 2012 when this country had co-hosted this sport event with Gabon .
The qualified countries are :South Africa; Congo; Algeria ;Mali; Gabon ;Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Ivory Coast; Ghana ;Guinea; Cape Verde; Zambia ;Tunisia; Senegal;
THE BEST of third-placed teams is DR Congo; plus hosting country Equatorial Guinea
All results
Group A
Sudan 0–3 South Africa
Nigeria 2–3 Congo
Congo 2–0 Sudan
South Africa 0–0 Nigeria
Congo 0–2 South Africa
Sudan 1–0 Nigeria
Nigeria 3–1 Sudan
South Africa 0–0 Congo
South Africa 2–1 Sudan
Congo 0–2 Nigeria
Nigeria 2–2 South Africa
Sudan 0–1 Congo
Team /Pld / W / D / L / GF / GA / GD / Pts
South Africa /6 /3 /3 /0 /9 /3 /+6 /12
Congo / 6 /3 /1 /2 /6 /6 /0 /10
Nigeria / 6 /2 /2 /2 /9 /7 /+2 /8
Sudan / 6 /1 /0 /5 /3 /11 /−8 /3
Group B
Ethiopia 1–2 Algeria
Mali 2–0 Malawi
Malawi 3–2 Ethiopia
Algeria 1–0 Mali
Malawi 0–2 Algeria
Ethiopia 0–2 Mali
Mali 2–3 Ethiopia
Algeria 3–0 Malawi
Malawi 2–0 Mali
Algeria 3–1 Ethiopia
Mali 2–0 Algeria
Ethiopia 0–0 Malawi
Team /Pld / W / D / L / GF / GA /GD / Pts
Algeria /6 /5 /0 /1 /11 /4 /+7 /15
Mali /6 /3 /0 /3 /8 /6 /+2 /9
Malawi/ /6 /2 /1 /3 /5 /9 /−4 /7
Ethiopia /6 /1 /1 /4 /7 /12 /−5 /4
Group D
DR Congo 0–2 Cameroon
Ivory Coast 2–1 Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone 0–2 DR Congo
Cameroon 4–1 Ivory Coast
Sierra Leone 0–0 Cameroon
DR Congo 1–2 Ivory Coast
Cameroon 2–0 Sierra Leone
Ivory Coast 3–4 DR Congo
Sierra Leone 1–5 Ivory Coast
Cameroon 1–0 DR Congo
Ivory Coast 0–0 Cameroon
DR Congo 3–1 Sierra Leone
Team /Pld / W / D / L /GF / GA /GD / Pts
Cameroon /6 /4 /2 /0 /9 /1 /+8 /14
Ivory Coast /6 /3 /1 /2 /13 /11 /+2 /10
DR Congo /6 /3 /0 /3 /10 /9 /+1 /9
Sierra Leone /6 /0 /1 /5 /3 /14 /−11 /1
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**Second round
Lesotho 1–0 Kenya
Kenya 0–0 Lesotho
Uganda 2–0 Mauritania
Mauritania 0–1 Uganda
Congo 2–0 Rwanda
Rwanda 2–0(p:4-3) Congo
(2–2 on aggregate. Rwanda won the penalty shoot-out. However, on 17 August 2014, the CAF announced that Rwanda were disqualified for fielding the ineligible player; Congo advanced to Group A)
(1st leg ) Mauritania 1–0 Equatorial Guinea
(2nd leg) Equatorial Guinea 3–0 Mauritania
(Equatorial Guinea won 3–1 on aggregate. However, on 3 July 2014, the CAF announced that Equatorial Guinea were disqualified for fielding the ineligible player , and as a result, Mauritania advanced to the second round.but Equatorial Guinea later qualified for the final tournament as replacement hosts instead of morocco.)
(1st leg ) Central African Republic 0–0 Guinea-Bissau
(2nd leg) Guinea-Bissau 3–1 Central African Republic
(1st leg ) Swaziland 1–1 Sierra Leone
(2nd leg) Sierra Leone 1–0 Swaziland
Gambia Seychelles
(Seychelles advanced to the second round, Gambia was suspended from all CAF competitions for two years for deliberately fielding overage players in the 2015 African U-20 Championship qualification match against Liberia.)
(1st leg ) São Tomé and Príncipe 0–2 Benin
(2nd leg) Benin 2–0 São Tomé and Príncipe
(1st leg ) Malawi 2–0 Chad
(2nd leg) Chad 3–1 Malawi
(1st leg ) Tanzania 1–0 Zimbabwe
(2nd leg) Zimbabwe 2–2 Tanzania
(1st leg ) Mozambique 5–0 South Sudan
(2nd leg) South Sudan 0–0 Mozambique
AFC(African football confederation )CAF (confederation africain de football) had decided 11 November 2014 to withdraw the organization of African football cup 2015 from morocco ,due to categorical refusal of morocco to host this great African football event in the fixed date between 17 January to 7 February 2015.
Morocco had refused to host Africa cup in this date chosen by CAF, morocco had chosen another date either June 2015 ,or January 2016,due to the risk of Ebola contamination which claimed many innocent lives, about 5000 people killed ,and 13 000 contaminated especially in western Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone ,Guinea ).
Morocco is afraid of losing the flux of tourists coming from Europe ,in case of one Ebola case manifested in the country during this African sport event ,since tourism in morocco accounts for 8% of Moroccan GDP , it generates 6 billion Euros a year ,and 500 000 jobs especially in Marrakesh ,Agadir ,Casablanca ,fez …..etc .
Footballwise morocco had won Africa football cup once in 1976 hosted by Ethiopia, and hosted this football event in 1988 won by Cameron.
Sanctionwise ,morocco will not take part in 2015 Africa cup ,and very likely will not take part in 2017 2019 Africa cup ,besides heavy fines which Moroccan football federation must pay for its steadfast refusal to host this event in the date fixed by CAF.
Morocco have decided recently not to host football Africa cup due in 15 January 2015 ,hoping it will be adjourned beyond June 2015 ,this decision is due as you know to Ebola virus ,which have killed in west Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone , Guinea)more than 4000 people and contaminated more than that number in Africa and beyond .
Many African countries have decided not to substitute for morocco to host this great football event ,Algeria and south Africa had refused categorically ,as for Ghana and Nigeria many specialists think their decision will not be different from Algeria and south Africa ,because the risk to have an outbreak of Ebola after the Africa cup is more likely if this football event is organized as planned in 15 January in morocco or another country ,as the vaccine to deal with such virus is lacking or in making .
If you do not know The virus of Ebola, this virus is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), where one of the first recorded outbreaks happened in 1976.
Ebola is causing a hemorrhagic fever that kills up to 90% of those infected. It spreads in the blood and cripples the immune system, causing high fever, headache and muscle pain, often accompanied by bleeding.
The most troubling in this affair is this virus was wandering in Africa for four decades and no country in Africa have devised an adequate vaccine during this long period ,that means the scientific research in Africa is very weak or inexistent ;for such disease you need about ten years to devise and find a healing vaccine ,that means a vaccine against Ebola should have been elaborated by African scientific laboratories at the end of 1980’s ,without waiting until now to see western pharmaceutical companies or others to find a vaccine for African viruses .
Michel Platini will not support Blatter in his bid for reelection to be the president of FIFA for the fifth term ,the Suisse Blatter wants to stay as the next president despite his old age ,he is more than seventy years old .
Platini had said I have told him that directly ,””I looked him in the eye I will not support you any more we need some fresh air ” but the former French player had confirmed he will not be the candidate for the next FIFA election ,Michel Platini had presided over football in Europe(UEFA) since 2007 .
all results and statistics
-The winner of the Golden Boot was James Rodríguez(6 goals)
Germany Thomas Müller(5 goals)
Argentina Lionel Messi(4 goals)
Brazil Neymar(4 goals)
Netherlands Robin van Persie(4 goals)
-Total number of goals scored: 171
-Average goals per match: 2.67
-Total number of hat-tricks: 2 (Thomas Müller, Xherdan Shaqiri)
-Total number of penalty kicks awarded: 13
-Total number of penalty kicks scored: 12 (Penalty kick success rate: 92.31%)
Total number of penalty kicks missed: 1 (Karim Benzema)
-Most goals scored by a team: 18 (Germany)
Fewest goals scored by a team: 1 (Cameroon, Honduras, Iran)
*Group D( Uruguay, Costa Rica , England, Italy )
Uruguay 1 – 3 Costa Rica
England 1 – 2 Italy
Uruguay 2 – 1 England
Italy 0 – 1 Costa Rica
Italy 0 – 1 Uruguay
Costa Rica 0 – 0 England
*Group E( Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras )
Switzerland 2 – 1 Ecuador
France 3 – 0 Honduras
Switzerland 2 – 5 France
Honduras 1 – 2 Ecuador
Honduras 0 – 3 Switzerland
Ecuador 0 – 0 France
*Group F( Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Nigeria )
Argentina 2 – 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iran 0 – 0 Nigeria
Argentina 1 – 0 Iran
Nigeria 1 – 0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nigeria 2 – 3 Argentina
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 – 1 Iran
*Group G( Germany, Portugal, Ghana, United States )
Germany 4 – 0 Portugal
Ghana 1 – 2 United States
Germany 2 – 2 Ghana
United States 2 – 2 Portugal
United States 0 – 1 Germany
Portugal 2 – 1 Ghana
*Group H( Belgium, Algeria, Russia, South Korea)
Belgium 2 – 1 Algeria
Russia 1 – 1 South Korea
Belgium 1 – 0 Russia
South Korea 2 – 4 Algeria
South Korea 0 – 1 Belgium
Algeria 1-1 Russia to Spain
No team in that famous semi final has ever suffered in the way brazil did during a brutal first half in which Germany scored five times in 19 minutes ;by the way Brazil had not lost a competitive match at home since 1975 , It was a dream dying .
all results and statistics
Semi-finals
Brazil 1 7 Germany
Argentina(pen 4) 0 0 Netherlands(pen 3)
Quarter-finals
France 0 1 Germany
Brazil 2 1 Colombia
Belgium 0 1 Argentina
Netherlands(pen 4) 0 0 Costa Rica(pen 3)
Knockout stage
Brazil (pen 3) 1 1 Chile(pen 2)
Netherlands 2 1 Mexico
Colombia 2 0 Uruguay
Costa Rica (pen 3) 1 1 Greece (pen 0)
France 2 0 Nigeria
Argentina(a.e.t) 1 0 Switzerland
Germany (a.e.t) 2 1 Algeria
Belgium (a.e.t) 2 1 United States
Brazil vs. Chile
Netherlands vs. Mexico
Colombia vs. Uruguay
Costa Rica vs. Greece
France vs. Nigeria
Argentina vs. Switzerland
Germany vs. Algeria
Belgium vs. United States
*Group D( Uruguay, Costa Rica , England, Italy )
Uruguay 1 - 3 Costa Rica
England 1 - 2 Italy
Uruguay 2 - 1 England
Italy 0 - 1 Costa Rica
Italy 0 - 1 Uruguay
Costa Rica 0 - 0 England
*Group E( Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras )
Switzerland 2 - 1 Ecuador
France 3 - 0 Honduras
Switzerland 2 - 5 France
Honduras 1 - 2 Ecuador
Honduras 0 - 3 Switzerland
Ecuador 0 - 0 France
*Group F( Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Nigeria )
Argentina 2 - 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iran 0 - 0 Nigeria
Argentina 1 - 0 Iran
Nigeria 1 - 0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nigeria 2 - 3 Argentina
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 - 1 Iran
*Group G( Germany, Portugal, Ghana, United States )
Germany 4 - 0 Portugal
Ghana 1 - 2 United States
Germany 2 - 2 Ghana
United States 2 - 2 Portugal
United States 0 - 1 Germany
Portugal 2 - 1 Ghana
*Group H( Belgium, Algeria, Russia, South Korea)
Belgium 2 - 1 Algeria
Russia 1 - 1 South Korea
Belgium 1 - 0 Russia
South Korea 2 - 4 Algeria
South Korea 0 - 1 Belgium
Algeria 1-1 Russia