• Sean Henry Jacobs

What if major sports brands like Nike let local football stars - playing who are not big in Europe, but big in national club leagues on the continent - front a campaign?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Ivorian international and CSKA Moscow footballer, Seydou Doumbia about the hardest thing to secure in the Russian capital: It's hard to get a fade.

• Tom Devriendt

Cote d'Ivoire's newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country's diaspora.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Cote d'Ivoire is Africa's best team at the moment. FIFA says so. Egypt, the current African champions, are second.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's no record that Hugh Masekela could play football. But he acted like he could kick a ball in a music video.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Laurent Dubois

France today is struggling with race because — unlike its former colonies — it never actually went through its own process of decolonization.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Peter Alegi

Isaiah Stein was a sports activist and father of footballers, Edwin (Luton Town), Brian (Luton Town and England) and Mark (Chelsea).

• Sean Henry Jacobs

it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Davy Lane

Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs