Another 14 members of this team defected. What's going on? PERALTA: Look; the story of Eritrea's football teams is the story of Eritrea. I mean, in short, Eritrea is one of the most repressive ...

The missing players could be planning to seek asylum, which some Eritrean sports players have ... spokesman for Council of East and Central Africa Football Association, which organised the ...

Effectively, the team will miss out on 10 matches over the next two years and their World Cup dreams have ended even without kicking a ball. Eritrean football fans have grown to expect this.

Nine members of the Eritrean national football team and the coach of the squad have disappeared in Kenya, bringing the number of those to abscond while playing in a regional tournament to 11 ...

Six of those players have since claimed they were underage ... The contact, however, was not from an Eritrean football official. Henok Goitom’s parents were also Eritrean and, aged 31, he ...

Ten players from the Eritrean football team have refused to return home after playing a World Cup qualifying match in Botswana and are now seeking asylum there, officials say. The men were ...

Five Eritrean soccer players disappeared from the team hotel ... match against Kenya in the Council of East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) Under-20 Challenge Cup tournament.

Neither the Eritrean National Football Federation (ENFF) nor the country's government have commented on the decision, which has angered both players and supporters. "I don't know why it has ...

Seven players from the Eritrean football team have gone missing after playing in the East African regional championship in Uganda. The rest of the squad have returned home following the Cecafa ...

Eritrea’s entire national football team is seeking asylum in Kenya, joining tens of thousands of their compatriots who have already fled one of Africa’s most repressive regimes. The team ...

The missing players could be planning to seek asylum, which some Eritrean sports players have ... spokesman for Council of East and Central Africa Football Association, which organized the ...

Ten players from the Eritrean football team have refused to return home after playing a World Cup qualifying match in Botswana and are now seeking asylum there, officials say. The men were ...