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Cabinet approves $6.5m for basketball team World Cup debut
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Mbappe future in major doubt after refusal to extend PSG contract
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Man City and Inter Milan set for Champions League final showdown
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Boxing Federation appeals for $80,000 ahead of Ghana’s tournament
The President of South Sudan Boxing Federation is appealing for over 80,000 US dollars to allow the country take part in the upcoming 2023 African Games in Ghana.
Tereza Athian Abdelbagi said the Federation has already registered to take part in the tournament due in August.
“Now we have a championship that is coming in August, and I look forward that our females will participate in that game in Ghana,” she told Eye Radio during the launch of the Women Boxing Facility in Juba on Tuesday.
She said the national female boxing governing body has not yet secured the money to get tickets for 18.
“I have about 18 players who are going, both females and males, and we don’t have tickets yet,
“When you have tickets, you have to have accommodation, and a doctor, and these people [players] have families, so this is one of the challenges.”
The money is also to cater for their accommodation and incentives for the team doctor.
“So, I appeal to my nation and to the Ministry of Youth and Sports to look into this. The money is approximately 80 something thousand US dollars,” she said.
The Federation was established in 2012, a year after the South Sudan independence.
Women’s boxing facility launched in Juba
The UN Population Fund and the South Sudan Boxing Federation on Tuesday launched a female boxers’ facility in Juba to promote development and gender equality through sports. Continue reading Women’s boxing facility launched in Juba
Attacking icon Ibrahimovic says goodbye to football
Zlatan Ibrahimovic brought the curtain down on a long, trophy-packed career on Sunday when he unexpectedly announced his retirement from football. Continue reading Attacking icon Ibrahimovic says goodbye to football
Real Madrid great Benzema agrees to leave club
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has agreed a deal to end his glittering era at the club, the Spanish giants said Sunday. Continue reading Real Madrid great Benzema agrees to leave club
Whitaker amazed by power of sports in S.Sudan
Popular actor and UN goodwill ambassador Forest Whittaker say he is impressed by the strength and power of South Sudan sports players and their way of life.
“I met a bunch of young athletes, basketball players and they are from South Sudan. I was really amazed by the strength and the power that they have, they made, he said at the official launch of the Juba Peace Tournament at the Buluk Play Ground Monday.
Besides he said “Am most impressed by their behavior, by the way they deal with life.”
The movie legend thinks “sports have been able to give them [South Sudanese youth] an opportunity to grow, to progress, to dream about what’s possible for them.”
“It’s all about people feeling good about themselves and sports can do that for you, it can make you feel like you are part of a team,’ he added.
At the same event, the President of the South Sudan Football Association, Maduot Parek thanked Whittaker for collaborating with the national football governing body to promote peace through sports.
” At the South Sudan football association, we are thinking about using football as a solution to unite our people and to bring young people together in a positive manner and create love among them.”
“Therefore, when we share these commonalities and partnerships with Whitaker, the more we work together, we can get strong and deliver results in an effective manner,”
For her part, Central Equatoria Deputy Governor Sarah Nene said her government donated one million South Sudanese pounds to the football association to show the support of the state government.
“Young people are the future leaders of South Sudan and the future leaders who need to be handled well, and with football, we shall have a bright future in this country,”
‘My message today is to let peace prevail among us in our republic,” she concluded.