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Young Africans S.C.
Young Africans Sports Club (commonly referred to as Yanga) is a Tanzanian professional association football, football club based at Jangwani ward of Ilala District in Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania. Founded in 1935, the club plays their home games at the 60,000-capacity Benjamin Mkapa Stadium. Nicknamed Yanga , the club has won 30 Tanzanian Premier League titles and number of domestic cups, and have participated in multiple CAF Champions League editions. They have won the CECAFA Club Championship five times. The club was ranked among the top ten clubs in Africa, at number 80, by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in their 1 September 2022 – 30 August 2023 rankings. Globally, the club was ranked at number 104 in the IFFHS World Ranking. The club became a symbol of the African independence movements, anti-colonial movement. Young Africans became associated with nationalists, freedom fighters and Sam Gosmore and inspired the political party T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloud Hamdi
Miloud Hamdi (; born June 1, 1971) is an Algerian-France, French Association football, football Manager (association football), manager. Head coach of Tanzanian Premier League, Tanzania Premier league club Young Africans S.C., Young Africans Career In June 2012, Hamdi was appointed as manager of Saudi Arabian club Ettifaq FC, Ettifaq's under-21 team. In 2015, Hamdi joined USM Alger's coaching staff, initially as an assistant coach before being eventually appointed as the head coach in October. Managerial statistics Honours Club ;USM Alger * Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, Ligue 1 (1): 2015–16 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1, 2015-16 *Runner Up CAF Champions League 2015 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamdi, Miloud 1971 births Living people French sportspeople of Algerian descent French football managers Algerian football managers USM Alger managers Al-Salmiya SC managers RS Berkane managers CS Constantine managers Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 managers Algerian e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga, and officially known as LaLiga EA Sports for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Spain and the highest level of the Spanish football league system. It is controlled by the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional and contested by 20 teams over a 38-matchday period. Since its inception, All-time La Liga table, 62 teams have competed in La Liga, with nine teams crowned champions. Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Barcelona have dominated the competition, winning 36 and 28 titles respectively. In the 1940s, Valencia CF, Valencia, Atlético Madrid, and Barcelona emerged as the strongest clubs. Real Madrid and Barcelona led the charge in the 1950s, each winning four titles. During the 1960s and 1970s, Real Madrid dominated with fourteen titles, with Atlético Madrid winning four. During the 1980s and 1990s, Real Madrid remained prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickson Job
Dickson Nickson Job (born 29 December 2000) is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Tanzanian Premier League club Young Africans and the Tanzania national team. Club career Job began his senior career in the Tanzanian Premier League with Mtibwa Sugar. He joined Young Africans on 11 January 2021. International career Job made his senior debut with the Tanzania national team in a friendly 2–1 loss to Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ... on 15 March 2021. International goals :''Scores and results list Tanzania's goal tally first.'' References External links * * 2000 births Living people Tanzanian men's footballers Tanzania men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Mtibwa Sugar F.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Hamad
Ibrahim Abdallah Hamad (born 12 November 1997), sometimes known as Ibrahim Bacca, is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Young Africans. He has played for both the non-FIFA recognized Zanzibar national team, and for the recognized Tanzania national team. Career Hamad began his senior career with the Zanzibar Premier League club Jang'ombe Boys in 2017. In 2019, he moved to Malindi for 2 season. In 2021, he spent a season with KMKM where he won the 2021–22 Zanzibar Premier League. on 14 January 2022, he joined the Tanzanian Premier League club Young Africans where he won 2 consecutive leagues, 1 Tanzania FA Cup and 1 Tanzania Community Shield. In November 2023 he extended his contract with Young Africans until 2027, and after a strong performance against Al Ahly FC in the CAF Champions League a special day was inaugurated by his club and Zanzibar locals called "Bacca Day". International Hamad was first called up to the Zanzibar nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (association Football)
The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player that can heavily influence a game or has good leadership qualities. The team captain is usually identified by the wearing of an armband. In the 2024/25 edition of the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, it was made mandatory for each team to have a captain and for each captain to be identified by the previously traditional but non-mandatory captain's armband. Responsibilities The only official responsibility of a captain specified by the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game is to participate in the Coin flipping, coin toss prior to Kick-off (association football), kick-off (for choice of ends or to have kick-off) and prior to a penalty shoot-out (association football), penalty shoot-out. Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakari Mwamnyeto
Bakari Nondo Mwamnyeto (born 5 October 1995) is a Tanzanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Tanzanian Premier League club Young Africans and the Tanzania national team. Club career Mwamnyeto began his senior career with Coastal Union in the Tanzanian Premier League, eventually becoming their captain. He then joined Young Africans on 14 August 2020. International career Mwamnyeto made his senior debut with the Tanzania national team in a friendly 0–0 tie with Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ... on 14 October 2019. He was part of the squad called up to the 2020 African Nations Championship. References External links * * 1995 births Living people Tanzanian men's footballers Tanzania men's international footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Andabwile
Aziz (; ; ) is a Semitic name from the root two-zayin. In the Hebrew Bible, the root two-zayin () means 'reputable, powerful, sublime'. In the 1 Chronicles, Aziz was the son of Shema and the father of Bela. Azizus ( Latinised), attested as an Arabian king who ruled Sampsigeramids of the Roman Empire. In ancient Levantine mythology, Azizos is a god of the morning star of Aramaic and Arab origin from Palmyra. The Arabian goddess Al-Uzza, related to the planet Venus, is named from the same root. ''Al-ʿAzīz'' is one of the names of God in Islam. ''ʿAzīz'' without ''al-'' is used as a royal title borne by the high nobles of Ancient Egypt., It is used in existing Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew, neo-Aramaic, Mandaic, Maltese) and has also spread to non-Semitic language families like Berber languages, Caucasus languages, Iranian languages, and Turkic languages. ''Aziz'' is a common masculine given name, especially in the Muslim world, but it has also continued to be u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djigui Diarra
Djigui Diarra (born 27 February 1995) is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Tanzanian Premier League club Young Africans and the Mali national team. He also represented his country at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where they achieved a third-place finish. Club career Diarra joined Tanzanian club Young Africans in August 2021. International career Youth Diarra was set to represent his country at the 2015 African U-20 Championship, but broke his hand during a CAF Champions League match against AS GNN, and was ultimately not selected for the squad. In May 2015, he was named in Mali's squad to represent the national under-20 team at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. Diarra, the team captain, blocked nine shots, including a penalty, in their quarterfinal match against Germany. They eventually won by penalty shootout, by a score of 4–3. They were eliminated in the semifinals by Serbia, but defeated Senegal in the third-place match. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSM Group
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and mobile broadband modems. GSM is also a trade mark owned by the GSM Association. "GSM" may also refer to the voice codec initially used in GSM. 2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation ( 1G) analog cellular networks. The original GSM standard, which was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), originally described a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony, employing time division multiple access (TDMA) between stations. This expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via its upgraded standards, GPRS and then EDGE. GSM exists in various versions based on the frequency bands used. GSM was first implemented in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SportPesa
SportPesa is an online gambling company founded in 2014. It offers online gambling products such as sportsbooks, live betting and online casino. SportPesa has offices in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Italy, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the UK. Ownership SportPesa in Kenya is operated by Milestone Games Limited, a Kenyan-owned company. In Tanzania, the brand is operated by SportPesa Limited, a subsidiary of SportPesa Global Holdings Ltd., a company registered in the United Kingdom, UK. SportPesa Pty operates the brand in South Africa. In the Isle of Man and Ireland, SportPesa is operated by a group of companies owned by SportPesa Holdings Limited, a company registered in the Isle of Man. In the UK, the SportPesa brand is operated in conjunction with TGP Europe, TGP Europe Limited. Products The company's affiliated companies provide sports betting, live betting, and casino games such as Aviator. All these are provided online via the internet, played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
