Algeria sack Coach after 1-1 draw with Cameroon

Algeria have sacked coach Milovan Rajevac just over three months after he took charge.

The Serb, who took Ghana to the 2010 World Cup quarter-finals, only replaced Christian Gourcuff in June.

Algeria drew 1-1 at home to Cameroon on Sunday in the opening round of matches in the final phase of African 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

Assistant coaches Nabil Neghiz and Yazid Mansouri are expected to replace the 62-year-old Rajevac on an interim basis until a successor is appointed.

Ex-Cameroon defender Rigobert Song in coma

Former Liverpool defender Rigobert Song, 40, the ex-captain of Cameroon’s national side, was in a coma Monday after suffering a stroke.

Cameroon’s state radio reported that Song, who also played for West Ham United, Metz and Lens in France and Galatasaray in Turkey, was rushed to a nearby hospital from his Yaounde home on Sunday after suffering a cerebral aneurysm.

Song was in a coma, the radio reported.

“I wish you lots of courage and a speedy recovery,” former Cameroon team-mate Samuel Eto’o said in a Facebook post.

Song, capped 137 times, played in four World Cup finals and a record eight African Nations Cups as well as winning Olympic gold in 2000.

Cameroon to host Gambia at Limbe Omnisports Stadium

Cameroon Football Federation has confirmed that the Indomitable Lions’ AfCON Group M Qualifier match to the Scorpions of The Gambia slated for September will be played at the Limbe Omnisports Stadium, outside Douala.

Both the Federation’s secretary general and the communications officer earlier on Monday confirmed that the Limbe Omnisports Stadium will be the venue for the Cameroon VS Gambia game, which, according to the officials, is located 60km away from the commercial capital in Douala.

 The officials further confirmed that the Gambian team will be picked up from the Douala International Airport by bus to Limbe where the match will kick off on Saturday 3September 2016, with less than an hour driving time.

The officials further confirmed that kick-off time for the game will be 3pm local time.

Meanwhile Scorpions’ head coach Sang Ndong has assembled a local-based team currently on training at the Independence Stadium on daily basis.

The local-based team will be joined by invited foreign-based selections among them Modou Barrow of the English Premier League side Swansea City FC and his compatriots in Europe and Scandinavia.