Ahmed El-Sheikh marked his debut with a goal and Mahmoud Kahraba and Mohamed Elneny were also on target as Egypt strolled to a 3-0 friendly win over Togo on Tuesday in their first match since finishing as runners-up at the African Nations Cup last month.

Just hours after a controversial four-match ban for star attacker Leo Messi, Argentina have lost 2-0 against Bolivia in La Paz. Were they missing the Barcelona star, or simply struggling with the altitude?Juan Carlos Arce and Marcelo Martins Moreno netted for the home team either side of half time on Tuesday, securing Bolivia a big scalp in their World Cup qualification campaign.

Al Ahly invited their fans on Thursday to attend the Men s and Women s African volleyball Clubs Championships for free.

The fifth time was the charm for Aljona Savchenko, a Ukrainian who has skated in five Olympic Games for two different countries and with three different partners. In PyeongChang, she finally realized her Olympic dream of winning gold.

Almost four months ago, Walid Azaro was vilified by Ahly s demanding supporters for being a "flop signing" as he struggled in front of goal, wasting numerous clear-cut chances. Coach Hossam El-Badry, who blessed his signing from Morocco s Difaa El Jadida for $1.4 million last summer, kept faith with the 22-year-old and he is now repaying his trust with a series of clinical displays.

Egypt s champions Ahly have settled on 6 March as the date of their first match in the 2018 CAF Champions League, the Cairo giants announced on Tuesday. The Reds will be facing the winner of the match between Gabon s CF Mounana and Burkina Faso s Rail Club du Kadiogo in the prestigious African tournament round of 32.

The FIS has been criticized for allowing the women s slopestyle final to go ahead despite high winds. The same swirling winds have caused the FIS to postpone men s and women s downhill skiing events.The swirling winds at Phoenix Park, where the snowboarding events are being held, caused almost all of the athletes to crash at some point during Monday s slopestyle final. The contest went ahead an hour after it was scheduled to start, as organizers waited in vain for the winds to calm down. They had already been forced to scrap Sunday s qualifiers due to the winds.

Redmond Gerard dazzled with his final run in the men s snowboard slopestyle finals to become the second-youngest Olympian to win a gold medal. It was the first medal the United States has won in Pyeongchang.Gerard, 17, was propping up the competition coming into his third and final run, but having struggled for speed in runs one and two, strung together a jaw-dropping combination of tricks that culminated in an electrifying backside triple cork 1440. His score of 87.16 vaulted him ahead of Canada s Mark McMorris. While another Canadian, Max Parrot, gave Gerard a late scare, it was the Ohio native who stood atop the podium when the dust had settled.

Injury-plagued team Ahly will be seeking a new win over Arab Contractors when they face each other for the second time in a week in the Egyptian Premiere League Monday. The Reds defeated Arab Contractors 3-0 in a postponed match Thursday to extend their winning streak to nine successive league matches.

Riyad Mahrez ended an 10-day standoff with Leicester City on Friday when he was pictured returning to the club s training ground. The Algerian was pictured arriving in a black people carrier at the club s training ground on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after manager Claude Puel appealed to him to "get his head right" and return.

Morocco local-based national team coach Jamal Salami praised the "shining performance" of Ahly striker Walid Azaro, saying his compatriot has more to achieve in his career and deserves to wear the jersey of the European top flights. "Walid is a brilliant player and he can join one of the big European teams, I can liken him with Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, he is a strong and talented player," Salami told a radio station on Thursday.

Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez will miss Saturday s game against Manchester City, the club he had hoped to join last month, his manager Claude Puel said on Thursday. Algerian Mahrez has neither trained nor played with the Leicester team since transfer deadline day, when he failed to secure a move to the Premier League leaders.

Al-Ahram s weekly sports magazine Al-Ahram Al-Riyadi, held a celebration ceremony on Tuesday in Cairo to honor the best Egypt-based footballers of 2017 in what the magazine dubbed its first sports "Oscars." "We are very happy with our first ever Oscar ceremony. It is a great honor to give the credit to those who made achievements in the field of sports over the past year," said Al-Ahram Al-Riyadi editor-in-chief Mohamed Shabana as he opened the ceremony.

Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has said he is ready to extend his contract with the Premier League club despite the fact that his heart is in Madrid for personal reasons. Since breaking into the Chelsea team in 2014 the Belgium international has frequently been linked to Real Madrid, however he said negotiations over a new deal with the English champions are imminent and all being well he will put pen to paper.

Egypt s Sports Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz said on Tuesday that fans will be allowed to attend Egypt Cup games, a move that will end the five-year ban on crowds at domestic football matches. "The Egypt Cup quarters will witness the return of the fans to the stands," Khaled Abdel-Aziz told a radio station on Tuesday.

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique s goal celebration against Espanyol in their 1-1 draw at the weekend will be examined to see if he was provoking the fans at the RCDE Stadium in Cornella, La Liga president Javier Tebas said on Monday. If the Spanish football federation s competition committee deems Pique s actions punishable, the Spanish international could face a suspension of up to three games.

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp heaped praise on star winger Mohamed Salah after seeing the Egyptian international scoring twice in Sunday s 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur. "It was a fantastic goal (the second one), an outstanding goal. It was an outstanding performance, [he was] a threat the whole 90 minutes, that s true," Klopp said in the press conference after the match.

Ahly coach Hossam El-Badry has expressed delight at the team s 3-0 victory over Ittihad of Alexandria on matchday 22 of the Egyptian Premier League, describing the game as important and "tough". "Thank God, we won a tough game in very difficult circumstances as half of the team is in Saudi Arabia for a friendly," the 57-year-old told the club s official website.

Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah scored twice in Liverpool s 2-2 draw with Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday. The 25-year-old capitalised on a mistake from Eric Dier to put Liverpool in front in the third minute, taking his tally to 20 league goals for the season.

Ahly made it eight wins in a row after convincingly seeing off Alexandria s Ittihad 3-0 in the Egyptian league at Borg El-Arab Stadium on Sunday. A first-half goal from Moroccan striker Walid Azaro in the 39th minute was followed by another two after the break from Abdallah El-Said and Junior Ajayi in 78 and 81 minutes respectively.

The first of February marks a very dark night in Egyptian football history, when 72 Ahly team supporters died and dozens were severely injured in 2012 in bloody clashes against rival fans from Port Said s Masry following a league game. Seventy-three defendants, including nine police officers, were charged for involvement in the incident, and after a long process – which caused riots in the coastal city, leaving even more causalities – 10 defendants received final death verdicts last year, while another 25 received between 5 and 15-year prison sentences.