Guinea coach Michel Dussuyer has maintained that Ghana are still favourites to win the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.

Caf President Issa Hayatou says African football will mourn with the families of those lost in the clashes in Egypt.

Fifa has unveiled the 2013 Confederations Cup logo and confirmed that Brasilia will host the tournament's opening match.

In terms of global visibility there could hardly be a greater contrast between Wednesday's soccer disaster in Egypt which claimed the lives of at least 73 people and the world's worst recorded stadium disaster in which 340 people died in Moscow in 1982.

The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, vowed on Thursday to track down those behind soccer violence that killed more than 70 people in Port Said, speaking in a rare phone call to an Egyptian TV channel.