International Friendly 16 March 2013: Bahrain vs. Lebanon

In February per a report at Gulf Daily News, the Bahrain Football Association (BFA) announced a football friendly with Lebanon to be held on 16 March at the National Stadium in Riffa. The match will be utilized to ready both squads for 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification.

Bahrain host Qatar and Lebanon squares off with Thailand on 22 March.

In Group D for 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification holds Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen and Malaysia.

Lebanon, Thailand, Kuwait and Iran sit in Group B.

Early in March, Qatar will face Egypt in friendly action in order to ready for Bahrain.

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International Friendly 7 March 2013: Qatar versus Egypt

Egypt, missing from the globe's top football tournament since 1990, readies for the next round of 2014 World Cup qualifiers with a football friendly hosted by Qatar on 7 March 2013. Coach Bob Bradley, per a report at Ahram Online, will not bring into camp any foreign-based footballers for the match.

As one would imagine, the roster is stacked with members from globally recognized Al Ahly.

After this friendly, Egypt next takes on Zimbabwe in qualification action on 26 March.

Goalkeeper: Sherif Ekrami (Ahly) and Al-Hani Soliman (Ittihad of Alexandria)

Defenders: Wael Goma (Ahly), Mohamed Naguib (Ahly), Rami Rabia (Ahly), Ahmed Shedid Qenawi (Ahly), Mohamed Abdel Fattah (Wadi Degla) and Mohamed Belal (Smouha)

Midfielders: Hossam Ashour (Ahly), Abdullah-El-Said (Ahly), Ahmed Usama (Wadi Degla), Tarek Hamed (Smouha), Ibrahim Abdel-Khalek (Smouha), Mohamed Hamoudy (Smouha) and Ahmed Magdy (Mahallah)

Forwards: El-Sayed Hamdy (Ahly), Hussein Hamdy (Maqassa) and Amr Marei (Wadi Degla)

Prediction: Pharaohs too much for the soon-to-be World Cup hosts, 3-1.

21 African referees tabbed for Brazil 2014

It's 2014 World Cup news regarding the referees per a report by Sainabou Kujabi-Njie at Gambia's media outlet The Point via allAfrica.com.

From the African continent, 21 were tabbed to take part in training in Casablanca on 27 March through 1 April.

Alioum Neant (Cameroon)
Menkouande Evarist (Cameroon)
Edibe Peter (Nigeria)
Bennett Daniel F. (South Africa)
Range Marwa (Kenya)
Siwela Zakhele Thusi (South Africa)
Badara Diatta (Senegal)
Djibril Camara (Senegal)
Felicien Kabanda (Rwanda)
Noumandiez Desire Doué (Côte d'Ivoire)
Songuifolo Yeo (Côte d'Ivoire)
Jean-Claude Birumushahu (Burundi)
Papa Bakary Gassama (Gambia)
Jason Joseph Damoo (Seychelles)
Angesom Ogbamariam (Eritrea)
Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)
Abdelhak Etchiali (Algeria)
Redouane Achik (Morocco)
Slim Jedidi (Tunisia)
Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)
Sherif Hassan (Egypt)

2015 AFCON Draw 10 March 2013

Pot One includes:

Nigeria
Burkina Faso
Ivory Coast
Togo
Mali
South Africa
Cape Verde
DR Congo
Zambia
Tunisia
Ghana

Pot Two includes:

Egypt
Libya
Algeria
Senegal
Cameroon
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Gabon
Uganda
Congo
Central African Republic

Pot Three includes:

Ethiopia
Benin
Angola
Niger
Zimbabwe
Equatorial
Mozambique
Malawi
Burundi
Liberia
Sudan

Pot Four includes:

Yet to be determined as preliminary round still in play.

Information via allAfrica.com