16 June, 2006 - Published 12:27 GMT
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Focus on Africa's weekly tour of the best bits from the BBC's African language services.
The wrangling and confusion over the appointment of a head coach, and player bonus disputes had left a nasty taste in his mouth.
Click to listen (French)Cape Verde is in the news on BBC Portuguese for Africa. Reporter Jose Vicente Lopes interviewed the tiny island nation's Defence Minister, Cristina Fontes about NATO military manoeuvres currently underway on the islands.
The Response Force training is due to last until 28th June but troops will remain on the island for a month.
It is the first time that NATO has undertaken training manoeuvres – named Steadfast Jaguar - in an African country.
When asked about the importance of NATO's presence on the islands, the minister talked about a partnership between Cape Verde and NATO.
During their stay, NATO troops will also be training the Cape Verde military and have undertaken the patrolling of the islands' territorial waters. The location of the islands is strategically important to the West.
Click for more at BBC Portuguese for Africa (Portuguese)Last month, according to Medecins Sans Frontiers, 130 women and children were raped in the area.
Police blame excessive consumption of locally brewed alcohol, Umunanasi. However, for the mother of a seven year-old victim, such an explanation is insufficient without appropriate action.
Having seen her daughter's attacker walking around a free man despite his arrest, she questioned why he had not been detained and criticised government inaction.
She told Marie-Josee that women are so frustrated and angry with the authorities' failure to deal with the attacks that they want to execute punishments themselves.
Noting the proximity in timing of the Islamic Courts' success over the US-backed war lords and the first official US interest in Somali affairs since the disastrous military intervention of 1993; the BBC Somali service's Washington reporter, Abdirahman Yabarow covered the State department's Somali Contact Group initiative.
He attended the US State department press briefing to find out the "how, who, what, where and whys" of the proposed New York meeting.
Washington say that the Contact Group has been set up to enhance policy coordination and diplomatic communication in order to support the transitional federal institutions in Somalia.
Though fears about the rise of the Islamic courts there and the possibility of the lawless country becoming a haven for terrorists are seen as the greater concern.
The transitional Somali government welcomed the talks – despite its exclusion.