SPORTS
- FIFA World cup 2022 in Qatar ( Cameroon Tribune, rmcsport.bfmtv.com, Al Sharq, Ecomatin).
- The bet has been upheld according to Cameroon Tribune. It gives an image of how Messi’s joy of victory contradicted Kylian Mbappe’s sad face as he went towards the dressing room. Following the win, the Argentina population in Qatar flooded the streets paralysing movement for several hours.
According to her, based on the words of sport analyst and the president of FIFA. It is one of the best world cups and therefore concludes that Qatar braved all odds even though the battle had not been won beforehand.
- rmcsport.bfmtv.com states that the attribution and hosting of the world cup in Qatar had long raised a lot of dust. The environment, labourer’s condition and LGBT minorities just came to add to an already existing problem. She borrows the image of the daily arabophone newspaper Al Raya who published a world cup pierced from all corners by arrows. In her editorial, she outlines that the European press has led an open attack against the hosting of the world cup in Qatar since its announcement for the first time in 2010.
- In the same line with the latter, AL Sharq in an interview with former legend of Algerian football Lakhdor Belloumi, the legend states that hate campaigns won’t discourage Qatar. In her editorial she denounces the lies, rumours and calamities written by European press on preparation in Qatar.
- Ecomatin on her part emphasises on the threats given by CRTV to other national broadcasters for piracy. She points out the fact that the state channel is the only broadcaster certified by FIFA in Cameroon to relay the matches of the competition. However she is only authorised to relay 28 of the 64 matches to be played. This threat comes after the state channel was threatened of suspension by FIFA.
- African Nation Championship(CHAN) Algeria 2022 (Cameroon Tribune, Africa News)
- Cameroon Tribune informs that the intermediate lions are back at the CAF Excellence Centre in Mbankomo. According to the newspaper they are fine tuning their skills ahead of upcoming tournament to begin in less than ten days in Algeria. To ensure the best results the team has played and won their friendly match against Canon sportif by a score of two goals to one. The paper also points out that the intermediate lions are currently training twice a day and it will remain that way to the start of the competition.
- The teams to face each other in the opening match are Algeria and Libya. This information is according to Africa news. She did not just reveal the first teams to play but also the eighteen countries participating and the five groups in which they fall. The first two teams in Group A, B and C qualify for the quarter finals but only the first teams of group D and E will qualify for that stage.
- FIFA World Cup 2026 (BBC news Afrique, www.tf1info.fr)
- The 2022 world cup is contrasted to the 2026 world cup by BBC news Afrique. It lays a particular emphasis on the number of countries to host the competition in three years from now. The countries are Canada, United States of America and Mexico. She mentions the sixteen additional teams to the former thirty two which existed and points out that the competition will be played over a period of five weeks and contrary to the Qatar world cup , it will be played in mid-June. The media wonders on the number of hours each fan and player will have to cover during the journeys for the encounters given it will be played in eleven cities of the United states of America as well as three Mexican and Canadian Stadia.
- , www.tf1info.fr lays emphasis on the 48 teams to part take in the tournament. It brings to the lamplight the ideas of the president of FIFA Gianni Infantino who suggested the idea of sixteen groups in three different groups. However it informs that this decision is not yet certified in the words of the president “ The groups of four have always dazzled many to the last minute of every match. We have to reconsider this. It equally points out that different hypothesis envisage by the organising committee
Done by FAI Susan MUBA (Journalism 3)
