Africa Sports National (Africa Sports) is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. It was founded in 1948. They play at the Stade Houphouet-Boigny.
Africa Sports National is the most successful club in Côte d'Ivoire together with ASEC Mimosas.On December 6, 1992 it is the first club in Ivory Coast to win African Cup Winners Cup after beating the final club Vital'O.
Miézan Pascal was the most prominent and loyal player of the club after Kallé Bially.
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“Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)