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A Côte d'Ivoire supporter celebrates his team’s win over Nigeria in the Afcon final. Daniel Beloumou Oromo/AFP/Getty Images

February 14, 2024

African football won the 34th Afcon, with Côte d'Ivoire a close second

The depth of talent, record viewership and fair refereeing made it a tournament that proves African football is starting to thrive.

South Africa wins the Women’s African Cup of Nations in Rabat as the women’s game grows. Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images

December 14, 2022

6 moments in African football in 2022 that will be talked about for years to come

Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

There was a significant shift towards African football as a business rather than football as development.

September 5, 2022

VAR: I used motion capture technology to show why the Premier League gets tight offside decisions wrong

Pooya Soltani, University of Bath

What happened when we recreated football scenarios in a laboratory.

This is the first time Video Assistant Referee system, known as VAR,has been used at the world cup to assist referees make decisions. KIMIMASA MAYAMA/AAP

July 10, 2018

How video assistant referees could undermine on-field referees at the FIFA World Cup

Job Fransen, University of Technology Sydney

Video assistant referees have led to some controversial decisions at the World Cup. Rather than improving the quality of decision making by on-field refs, VAR could undermine it instead.

At the 2014 World Cup African fans felt that Nigeria were on the receiving end of poor refereeing. Peter Powell/EPA

June 10, 2018

Why African football fans should welcome video assistant referees at the World Cup

Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

Video Assistant Referees at the World Cup finals in Russia might help African teams to do better than they have done so far.

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