FRENCHMAN BEAUMELLE TAKES OVER AS ANGOLA COACH

Soccer Football - Africa Cup of Nations - Round of 16 - Ivory Coast v Egypt - Douala Stadium, Douala, Cameroon - January 26, 2022 Ivory Coast coach Patrice Beaumelle reacts REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Angola have named Patrice Beaumelle as their coach, with the Frenchman taking over a week before their final set of 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

He replaces Pedro Goncalves, fired last week after Angola lost at home to Libya and fell out of the race for a place at the finals in North America next year.

The 47-year-old Beaumelle has been a long-standing fixture on the African coaching circuit, mostly as assistant to compatriot Herve Renard, including a stint with Angola between 2010-2012.

Beaumelle also served as head coach of Zambia and Ivory Coast, and took Algerian club Mouloudia Alger to the group phase of last season’s African Champions League.

He will start his job with World Cup qualifiers in Eswatini on October 8 and Cameroon on October 13 before taking charge of the Angolan side at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco at the end of the year.

- Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Ed Osmond

SPEAK UP! FROM MUTINY AND BOYCOTTS TO EQUAL-PAY DEMANDS, WOMEN'S GAME FACES RECKONING

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From the American campaign against abuse in their professional leagues to France players demanding the removal of their coach and Canadians threatening boycotts, women's soccer is facing a reckoning in the lead-up to the ninth World Cup.

Some of the issues will be resolved, others might drag on, but it looks like the days when players suffered in silence rather than speaking out are long gone.

"One hundred percent, I think it's so prevalent," said Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, the general secretary of global players union FIFPRO.

"I think it's more prevalent than it's ever been in any other sport on a global stage. I don't think you've had this kind of co-ordinated - or uncoordinated - wave of speaking up, standing up, forcing change ever before."

Speaking up has proved highly successful in some cases.

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MOROCCO: HERVE RENARD KOCHA MPYA MOROCCO

Herve Renard ni kocha mpya wa timu ya taifa ya Morocco...Anachukua timu kutoka kwa Badou Zaki...Renard alikuwa kocha wa zamani wa Ivory Coast na Zambia...Amezipeleka timu zote hizo katika fainali ya African Cup of Nations na kushinda kombe pia...Ivory Coast ilishinda kombe hilo mwaka 2015 na miaka 3 kabla Zambia ilichukua kombe...Bofya hapa upate habari zaidi.