Soccer Results : Read all results here
Are you a fan of the world of soccer? We’ll then you’re in the right place to get all the latest soccer results as soon as they go live! Stay on top of the games with the soccer-results blog!
Soccer Blog – All Soccer Results
Latest: Lepasa’s Pirates Future | Soccer Laduma
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – MARCH 04: Lepasa of Orlando Pirates during the Orlando Pirates media open day at Rand Stadium on March 04, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images)
Get the best in Soccer, News and Lifestyle content with SNL24 PLUS
For 14 free days, you can have access to the best from Soccer Laduma, KickOff, Daily Sun, TrueLove and Drum. Thereafter you will be billed R29 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won’t be billed.
.
Excitement building for Discovery’s Alex Primary School Soccer League championship final
The Discovery Alex Primary School Soccer League championship is heating up, with schools in Alexandra eagerly anticipating the semi-finals and finals on Wednesday, November 6th.
This league, sponsored by Discovery, has been a weekly highlight for local primary schools over the past eight weeks. Established in 2013, the Discovery Alex Primary School Soccer League forms part of the Discovery Johannesburg Primary Schools Soccer Programme, which aims to foster community engagement and healthier living among young students. It aligns with Discovery’s core purpose of making people healthier and enhancing their lives.
Deon Curtis, senior manager at Discovery Sponsorships, emphasizes the program’s role in promoting health and community spirit. With 400 players from 12 primary schools participating annually, the league has become a significant community event. It culminates in a grand championship, showcasing the top teams in both male and female divisions.
The public can join the excitement at Alex Stadium from 13:00 to 15:30 on November 6th, with an awards ceremony following the matches. Notably, some participants have progressed to teams like the Blue Birds Ladies Academy and senior leagues, highlighting the incredible talent of young athletes.
The league is a huge collaborative effort, with around 40 educators involved in coaching players and running the Discovery Alex Primary School Soccer League Programme. The league is endorsed by the district and national departments of basic education and sports, and other partners include local football associations and City of Joburg.
At the start of the league, Discovery provides each school with two sets of soccer kits, consisting of 30 kits for the individual players in the girls’ and boys’ division.
In addition to primary school tournaments, Discovery’s program extends to high schools, engaging over 1,000 players aged 14 to 19. The final event is a much-anticipated spectacle, drawing over 500 spectators. Schools also benefit from healthy meals provided by Discovery Vitality partner, Nando’s.
Following the event, the schools will select 15 of the best players from each division to take part in the Discovery Festival next year.
Last year’s winner in the girls soccer division was Zenzeleni Primary sand Dr Knack Primary won the boys division.
.
Witbooi At Chelsea: The Challenge To Sign For Premier League Clubs | Soccer Laduma
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – AUGUST 18 : Emile Witbooi of South Africa during the U17 International Friendly match between South Africa and Lesotho at UJ Soweto Stadium on August 18, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Alche Greeff/Gallo Images)
Emile Witbooi, just like Relebohile Mofokeng did in December last year, has made his way to England to impress a Premier League team. However, the teenage sensation will be hoping to have better luck than the Orlando Pirates starlet with his assessment.
It was kept under wraps when Mofokeng made his way to Wolverhampton Wanderers last year.
Not much was said about how the Sebokeng-born star faired in his assessment; however, Siya sources indicated that the Bucs attacker struggled with the physicality at Wolves and was told to work on his strength and physicality while Wolves continue to monitor his progress.
Read: Former Sundowns Winger Surfaces At Pirates
Like Mofokeng, Witbooi, 16, is slight in build, like his superstar father Surprise Ralani. Though, the size of a player does not determine a successful career abroad. Look at Lionel Messi.
What Witbooi lacks in physicality, he does make up for in superior technical ability, which has belied his age and saw the likes of Manchester United enquire about his services in the past.
Over the next month, Witbooi, who became Cape Town City’s youngest ever player to feature in a matchday squad, will have his work cut out for him at the Blues’ youth sides as he looks to make the cut.
The School of Excellence product will be hoping to have better luck than Mofokeng as he looks to take the next step in his promising career.
Of course, Mofokeng himself is still young and has plenty of time to move to Europe in future. Interest in both players by Premier League clubs is a signal that South Africa is starting to produce talented youngsters once again.
Now, it remains to be seen if any of these clubs will go on to sign Witbooi or Mofokeng in the near future.
Read: Chiefs Coach: They Will Make Some Mistakes
.
Chiefs Won’t Provide Cover For Castillo? | Soccer Laduma
POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA – OCTOBER 26: Edson Castillo of Kazier Chiefs arrives with the bus prior to the Betway Premiership match between SuperSport United and Kazier Chiefs at Peter Mokaba Stadium on October 26, 2024 in Polokwane, South Africa. (Photo by Philip Maeta/Gallo Images)
Kaizer Chiefs were dealt a heavy blow with the injury to Edson Castillo, who is believed to be out for close to five months. So, how will this affect their January transfer plans?
Despite this injury to Castillo, the club is not panicking to immediately look for a replacement for the Venezuelan international midfielder, according to insiders at the club.
READ: Chiefs In Hot Water With The PSL Again
The insiders have added that even in the January transfer window, the defensive midfield department won’t be a priority for signing new players. The insiders stated that the coach and his technical team are happy with what they have in that department as they wait for Castillo to recover.
“Of course the injury is a big blow. The coach was depending on his experience in that department to help the young players and guide that but as much as it’s disappointing and sad, it’s not a train smash. The team has players who can play in that position and they have played very well already. Look at Samkelo Zwane and Njabulo Blom,” said the Siya source.
“Then you know Inacio Miguel and Given Msimango can play in that position as well? So it’s not as stressing as it looks though it’s not good to lose a player like Castillo or any other player to injury but the team will manage and do well,” the source added.
Meanwhile, a second insider stated that this could be the time for Sibongiseni “Ox” Mthethwa to get the chance to play and prove himself to the coach.
READ: Manqoba On Midfielder: ‘We Brought Him To Downs Because…’
“You know someone’s misfortune could be someone’s luck and this could give Ox the chance to play. You know he was meant to be loaned out but it did work so now he has the chance to stay in January as Castillo could be out until March and they woul need an experienced holding midfielder like Ox and that’s why this could be his time to be given a chance and prove himself. So there is no need to sign a new midfielder. The club is looking at either a winger or a striker and nothing has changed on that,” the second source stated.
Soccer Laduma contacted Chiefs for comment, but there was no response at the time of publishing this report.
As Chiefs navigate the season without Castillo, the club’s confidence in their existing squad highlights their strategic planning. With opportunities for players like Mthethwa to step up, fans will be eager to see how the team adapts and performs in the coming months.
Get the best in Soccer, News and Lifestyle content with SNL24 PLUS
For 14 free days, you can have access to the best from Soccer Laduma, KickOff, Daily Sun, TrueLove and Drum. Thereafter you will be billed R29 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won’t be billed.
.
National Teams ranking updated
Changes in the men’s and women’s ranking following the October 2024 update
Following the results of international beach soccer competitions throughout the month of October, the Beach Soccer Worldwide National Teams ranking has seen changes.
CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations 2024 champions Senegal have gained two places in the men’s ranking into 8th position, as Tahiti have also moved up two places in the men’s ranking into 10th after coming out victorious in OFC Beach Soccer Men’s Nations Cup 2024, with CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations 2024 semi-finalists Morocco making their way into the top 15 after gaining five places into 12th position.
In the women’s ranking, only two nations gained places as Poland have climbed into third place and Switzerland now sit in 13th.
Despite these changes, Spain remain at the top of the women’s ranking and Brazil sit in first place in the men’s ranking.
Click here to check the full ranking!
Source: https://beachsoccer.com/national-teams-ranking-updated-6
.
Latest Developments On Ramoreboli National Team Future | Soccer Laduma
Morena Ramoreboli during the CAF Champions League 2023/24 match between Simba and Jwaneng Galaxy held at Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 2 March 2024
There have been developments regarding the future of Morena Ramoreboli with regards to his role as the caretaker coach of Botswana.
Following the recent departure of Didier Da Rosa who has been the coach of the Zebras, the Botswana Football Association (BFA) decided on Ramoreboli to be in charge of the team in their quest to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations.
Read: Mokwena Leaps To Mailula’s Defence After Wydad Winner
With Botswana left with two matches in the 2025 AFCON qualifiers against Mauritania and Egypt and with a chance to qualify if they collect three points, Ramoreboli could get the national team job permanently, according to the latest information received by this publication.
Ramoreboli could be the man to take the team to the finals of the continental competition in Morocco next year, the Siya crew has been reliably informed.
Meanwhile, the Bloemfontein-born coach says he remains committed to deliver on the objectives of his employers Jwaneng Galaxy in the Botswana topflight.
“When all these things happen (dual roles), we need to say, Jwaneng Galaxy should not be far from their objectives and their targets. Their objectives are very clear and that is to say we defend the championship. How do we do that? By being consistent and I think so far, we’ve been very consistent,” said the coach, speaking exclusively to the Siya crew.
Read – Facing Giants: Pitso Relishing Neymar Matchup
“But to be honest with you, the responsibility of leading a country will always need you to be committed and sacrifice and that’s what I’m willing to do. I have been asked by the president of Botswana Football Association and his national executive committee, CEO and the technical director to go out there and deliver a service and I’m going to try my best to deliver the service. I’m going to try and put effort and make sure that we see this bigger picture and that we go and achieve our goal,” he said.
For all you exclusive football content and breaking news, join our WhatsApp Channel here.
Get the best in Soccer, News and Lifestyle content with SNL24 PLUS
For 14 free days, you can have access to the best from Soccer Laduma, KickOff, Daily Sun, TrueLove and Drum. Thereafter you will be billed R29 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won’t be billed.
.
PSL Confirm Date & Venues For Carling Knockout Semis | Soccer Laduma
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – NOVEMBER 02: Iqraam Rayners of Mamelodi Sundowns celebrates his goal with Lucas Rebeiro Costa of Mamelodi
The Premier Soccer League have confirmed the dates and venues for the Carling Knockout semi-finals.
The quarter-final action concluded on Sunday afternoon, with league conducting the draw straight after the 15h00 matches.
Read: Carling Knockout Semis Confirmed, Final Venue Revealed
Mamelodi Sundowns will travel to Marumo Gallants, while Richards Bay will host Magesi FC.
“The semifinal action kicks off on Saturday, 9 November 2024, as Richards Bay FC takes on Magesi FC at King Zwelithini Stadium. The excitement continues on Sunday, 10 November 2024, at Dr Molemela Stadium in the Free State, where Marumo Gallants will face Mamelodi Sundowns for a place in the final,” the league confirmed in a statement.
“Both fixtures will kick off at 15h00, ensuring convenient travel logistics for football fans.”
Fixtures:
Saturday, 9 November
15h00 – Richards Bay v Magesi FC – King Zwelithini Stadium
Saturday, 10 November
15h00 – Marumo Gallants v Mamelodi Sundowns – DR Molemela Stadium
Get the best in Soccer, News and Lifestyle content with SNL24 PLUS
For 14 free days, you can have access to the best from Soccer Laduma, KickOff, Daily Sun, TrueLove and Drum. Thereafter you will be billed R29 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won’t be billed.
.
The overstuffed football calendar is reducing quality but increasing drama | Jonathan Wilson
The overstuffed football calendar is reducing quality but increasing drama
There is an awful paradox at the heart of the modern game’s economic model: the toll on players’ bodies could make for a more balanced Premier League
- Sign up to Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here
It was a very good weekend for Liverpool, and a pretty good weekend for the Premier League. It’s one round of games, and blips and quirks do happen. But that three of the top four on Saturday morning could lose felt not only invigorating – maybe this isn’t a league entirely predetermined by how much money you have – but also, perhaps, part of a pattern.
And that pattern is of football that is a bit patchy, a bit scratchy, a bit lacking the sort of fluidity and quality we’ve become used to, which is perhaps not so good. Moisés Caicedo’s equaliser aside, Chelsea’s draw at Manchester United in Sunday’s showpiece was an extremely limited game. The sense this autumn has been of a lot of sides packed with good players not playing particularly well.
Aston Villa’s defeat at Tottenham brought the most spectacular scoreline, 4-1, but was in some ways the least noteworthy of the three defeats for sides near the top. Brilliant as they have been under Unai Emery, there has been for a while an expectation of a reset, if only because the demands of the Champions League, particularly on a squad that is not used to balancing European and Premier League demands – even if their manager is – are so intense.
After conceding late to draw at home to Bournemouth last week and then losing to Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, it wasn’t the greatest surprise that they should also drop points at Tottenham. What was unexpected was the manner in which Spurs tore them apart in the second half. Perhaps it was just a case of Villa opening up as they chased the game and being picked off by wildly inconsistent opponents having a good day, but it was impossible not to wonder whether fatigue might be a factor.
Arsenal’s woes are well-known and defeat at Newcastle was no great surprise. The loss of Martin Ødegaard has affected their balance in midfield but seems also to have hit them psychologically – as though they cannot quite conceive the possibility of playing well without him. They have already dropped 12 points this season. Given a good rule of thumb is that a side hoping to win the title must take 90 points, that places their title challenge in severe doubt; they effectively have only 12 more points they can drop in the 28 games they have remaining.
But perhaps this season it won’t take 90 points to win the league, and not just because of the potential points deduction hanging over Manchester City. City’s 32-game Premier League unbeaten record came to an end at Bournemouth on Saturday – a stat that should in itself give pause; teams really shouldn’t be able to go the equivalent of 85% of a league season unbeaten, or certainly not in the manner City have, with a weary sigh and nobody paying much attention.
Bournemouth deserve their own recognition in this; their last three games have been against Arsenal (home), Villa (away) and City (home) and they have taken seven points from them. As Pep Guardiola said on Saturday, “We couldn’t match the intensity.” That is credit to Andoni Iraola and his excellent Bournemouth who, after a wobbly start, have hit a fine run of form, inspired by Antoine Semenyo.
But City, in truth, have been uneasy for a while. Five times already in the league this season, they have conceded the first goal in a game, and they struggled to beat Fulham, Brentford, Wolves and Southampton. This is not the control to which Guardiola aspires. He complained about a season that, with the Club World Cup next summer, could stretch to 70 games – “like the NBA, but the NBA has four-month holidays and we have three weeks … When that happens, you have injuries for a long time.”
And, of course, in that he is quite right: top players are expected to play too much. City are missing Rodri and Kevin De Bruyne. Arsenal can legitimately point to their injury list as well. To which there is an obvious response: stop playing so many games. It’s the clubs who have driven the expansion of the Champions League, the clubs who go on lengthy pre-season tours, the clubs who have the power to refuse to play in the Club World Cup. To greedily take the money and then complain about the consequences – while, for instance, abolishing replays in the early rounds of the FA Cup, denying smaller clubs much-needed revenue – is illogical and distasteful.
The consequences for the league, though, could be fascinating. City did have a wobble in November last year, going on a run of one win in six Premier League games before winning 17 of their final 20, so nobody should be drawing any firm conclusions, but there is a possibility that this could be an old-fashioned season in which the elite do not just chomp remorselessly through opponents, but actually have to battle.
It’s appalling that the cost is injuries to players, expected to push their bodies beyond the limit. But, if that can be left aside – and perhaps it can’t – on a more abstract level a dip in quality may be worth it if the narrative drama improves, an awful paradox into which the economic model of modern football has forced the game.
-
This is an extract from Soccer with Jonathan Wilson, a weekly look from the Guardian US at the game in Europe and beyond. Subscribe for free here. Have a question for Jonathan? Email [email protected], and he’ll answer the best in a future edition
- Football
- Soccer with Jonathan Wilson
- US sports
- newsletters
.
Ancelotti: “When people are not doing well, soccer has to stop”
Carlo Ancelotti faced at Valdebebas the most unusual press conference of his career at Real Madrid, in which he began by taking the floor to say that he did not want to talk about soccer but to express his sadness for what happened in Valencia. His message was very clear: soccer should not have been played this past weekend. There was not a single question about the Madrid-AC Milan match at the Bernabéu in the fourth round of the Champions League, the two teams that have won the most European Cups and the two that the Italian coach carries in his heart.
Ancelotti wanted to speak before being asked: “It’s been a week since this tragedy and we are sad. We are very close to all the people who have been affected. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. I hope you can understand, but talking about football now is very complicated. We are part of this country and all of this affects us a lot. Out of respect for you and also to not disrespect the people, I will try to keep it simple because I don’t feel like talking about soccer. Tomorrow’s match is very special to me, but I will try to talk as little as possible.”
The match
“We have prepared them because we are professionals”
For the Real Madrid coach, “what has happened has been something terrible. We have prepared the match against Milan because we are professionals and we will try to win it obviously. This is what we have to do.”
Ancelotti insisted that the last League match should not have been played: “Everyone has been clear. Nobody wanted to play. It seemed like the right decision to me. But we are not the ones in charge. Those above make that decision,” he stated.
The management of tragedy
No political opinions
Several of the questions were meant to prompt Ancelotti to take a stance on how aid to the victims had been managed, but the Real Madrid coach refused to make political assessments: “I cannot comment on how this tragedy has been handled. I must do my utmost to try to help and that’s it.” Later, he remarked: “The frustration of the affected individuals is normal. I am not here to evaluate what politics has done this week. I do not have the resources to do this. It is difficult to think of something like this in 2024, with all the information we have. You can pinpoint the exact hour when it starts raining… And you cannot fix this kind of tragedy. Politics is very complicated in all countries. To judge what fault politics has? I don’t know. I do see the frustration of people who have lost everything.”
Near the end of the press conference, Ancelotti was asked about Vinícius’ emotional state after not winning the Ballon d’Or: “This has been a difficult week because it’s not the usual atmosphere. But not because of what happened with the Ballon d’Or. It happened and that’s it. We have to congratulate the winners. The sadness is not about that, but about what’s happening here in Spain. Vinícius is in a normal state. He is aware of what’s going on. Fortunately, we didn’t play on Saturday and Vinícius has trained well, like everyone else,” he reiterated. The club’s directive now is to stop talking about the Ballon d’Or and turn the page.
The Ballon d’Or
Congratulate the winners
To finish, Ancelotti recalled once again that the match shouldn’t have been played over the weekend: “The power we have is equal to 0. We cannot make any decisions. All the coaches wanted to stop the match. Some played, others didn’t. The decision-making power of the coach in these cases is equal to 0. There is a phrase, ‘the show must go on,’ but it shouldn’t be like that.”
After the team’s coach spoke, Lucas Vázquez, the third captain and undisputed starter after the injury of Dani Carvajal, addressed the audience. The message from the Galician player was very similar to that of his coach: “We feel very sad. These have been difficult, tumultuous days, where our people have suffered. It is a moment for all of us to reflect and think about what has happened. And to try to help each other to get through this.”
Vázquez sees the locker room affected: “Seeing a lot of people suffering affects us all. The coach is absolutely right. Our opinion is 0, our strength is 0. We have to be professionals and do what they tell us. That’s what it is. It shouldn’t have been played. It was time to be with those affected and only think about that. Political issues, it’s not the time to talk about it here,” he stated.
.