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2009: October, November and December

The Afrovision nations finished off their World Cup qualifying campaign in these three months, so we now know the other four nations who will be joining South Africa and Mali next year in the Finals. Two sets of games were played, both in October. Nigeria won both, but being in Mali’s group, it was too late for them to book a ticket to South Africa. Several other nations won both games.

Edward Still ’s Senegal got the biggest win in the first set of games, beating Alfred Jarry’s Kenya 5-0. Senegal then went on to win 3-1 in Kinshasa, but Kenya lost at home to Tyler Burrows’s Egypt. In the other game of the group, a Nzelo Lembi penalty gave DR Congo a 1-0 win over Egypt. Senegal qualify from the group for the World Cup, while Egypt and the Democratic Republic of the Congo qualify for the African Cup of Nations.

Senegal’s 5-0 win was matched in the second set of games by Albert Holstein’s Ivory Coast. They beat Libya 5-0, while the other match in their group saw Jeremy English’s Sudan beat Zambia 3-0. Both Holstein and English won their first games of October, too, with la Côte d’Ivoire beating visitors Zambia 2-0, and Sudan winning 3-1 in Libya. However, there can only be one winner, and the Ivory Coast were the team to qualify for the World Cup, with Sudan and Zambia qualifying for Angola 2010. Libya failed to pick up a single point.

Group 1 was, of course, already decided World Cup-wise, but this month, Des Tiny’s Nigeria beat Mali and Rwanda, while Guinea beat Rwanda but lost to Mali. Nigeria and Guinea joined Mali in qualifying for the African Cup of Nations, but obviously not in qualifying for the World Cup. In Group 2, Liam Ferguson’s Cameroon grabbed two wins to qualify themselves for the competition in South Africa. They trumped both Uganda and Cape Verde, 3-0 and 4-1 respectively, and while Didier Dardon’s Morocco thrashed Uganda 5-1, they lost 0-1 away in the islands, despite arguable domination. Morocco and Karl Unpingco’s Cape Verde qualify for Angola.

In Group 3, despite winning the Afrovision Managerial Contest, Sir Ronald Vaughan’s Benin were plunged out of qualification for the African Cup of Nations. They lost 0-2 in Tunisia and 2-4 in Burkina Faso to finish last in their group. Mentho Latum’s Tunisia won their other game, beating Ghana 1-0, and Ghana beat Burkina Faso 2-1. That does of course mean that Tunisia, Ghana and Magnus Vestergaard’s Burkina Faso qualify for the African Cup of Nations, and it is Tunisia who topped the group.

Taking a look at the Groups for the World Cup, the African nations have some fairly tough ties. Italy are natural qualifiers from Group A, and Tunisia will be fighting Israel and Uruguay to grab second place. Chile, Germany and Serbia are all favourites to finish ahead of Mali in Group B. In Group D, hosts South Africa have probably the easiest time of it, drawn against some good but not spectacular nations. Mexico, Paraguay and Turkey will all be trying to stop Matt Lepino’s side from reaching the next round. The Ivory Coast have France to contend with, but look like possiblities to finish ahead of Russia. Presumably, Saudi Arabia won’t mount a challenge on qualification. Senegal are drawn with the Netherlands, but it is not unimaginable that they can qualify ahead of South Korea, with Ireland last. And Liam Ferguson’s Cameroon have the toughest time. England and Spain will surely qualify from Group G, although the chance for an easy win over Iran offers some consolation.

As for the African Cup of Nations, hosts Angola are joined by DR Congo, Ghana and Senegal in Group A. Group B sees Mali, Morocco, and hosts Egypt look to oust Guinea. In Group C, the Ivory Coast and Tunisia look odds-on to finish above Cape Verde and Zamiba, while in Group D, Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Sudan will all face each other. Taking a look at the rankings, there are no major changes as no African nations played in December. Zambia, Tunisia and Nigeria all moved up one place, by virtue of those above them falling, and Steve Axworth’s Ethiopia fell four places, with Mozambique falling three. Cameroon, in 8th place, are currently the highest-ranked African nation, and Chip Butty’s São Tomé and Príncipe, in 208th place, are currently the lowest-.

[font=Courier New]  [b]Nation       P W D L F A GD[/b]
 [/font][font=Courier New]Benin[/font][font=Courier New]        2 0 0 2 2 6 -4
 [/font][font=Courier New]Burkina Faso[/font][font=Courier New] 2 1 0 1 5 4 +1
 [/font][font=Courier New]Cameroon[/font][font=Courier New]     2 2 0 0 7 1 +6
 [/font][font=Courier New]Cape[/font][font=Courier New] Verde[/font][font=Courier New]   2 1 0 1 2 4 -2
 [/font][font=Courier New]DR Congo     2 1 0 1 2 3 -1
 [/font][font=Courier New]Egypt[/font][font=Courier New]        2 1 0 1 2 2  0
 [/font][font=Courier New]Ghana[/font][font=Courier New]        2 1 0 1 2 2  0
 [/font][font=Courier New]Ivory Coast[/font][font=Courier New]  2 2 0 0 7 0 +7
 [/font][font=Courier New]Kenya[/font][font=Courier New]        2 0 0 2 1 7 -6
 [/font][font=Courier New]Mali[/font][font=Courier New]         2 1 0 1 4 3 +1
 [/font][font=Courier New]Morocco[/font][font=Courier New]      2 1 0 1 5 2 +3
 [/font][font=Courier New]Niger[/font][font=Courier New]ia[/font][font=Courier New]      2 2 0 0 5 2 +3
 [/font][font=Courier New]Rwanda[/font][font=Courier New]       2 0 0 2 1 4 -3
 [/font][font=Courier New]Senegal[/font][font=Courier New]      2 2 0 0 8 1 +7
 [/font][font=Courier New]Sudan[/font][font=Courier New]        2 2 0 0 6 1 +5
 [/font][font=Courier New]Tunis[/font][font=Courier New]ia[/font][font=Courier New]      2 2 0 0 3 0 +3
 [/font][font=Courier New]Uganda[/font][font=Courier New]       2 0 0 2 1 8 -7
 [/font][font=Courier New]Zambia[/font][font=Courier New]       2 0 0 2 0 5 -5

[b]No[/b][b] Ga[/b][b]mes:[/b]
[/font][font=Courier New]Algeria[/font][font=Courier New], Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
[/font] [font=Courier New]Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique,
[/font] [font=Courier New]Namibia, Niger, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo,
[/font] [font=Courier New]Zimbabwe[/font]

Malawi there yet? - Nation in the Spotlight

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Name: Malawi

Capital: Lilongwe

Population: 15.0m

Manager: Pompey 13 (pompey13)

World Ranking: 124

Stadium Capacity: 40,000

Last Three Results: H vs. DR Congo, 0-0; A vs. Djibouti, 4-0; A vs. Egypt, 0-2

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Here's a fun idea: I'll give you an update for each goal scored by an African nation at the World Cup (IRL). So this is for Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal for South Africa yesterday.

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2010 African Cup of Nations

Here we are at our managers’ first major competition! We’ll be following all the action in Angola, right up to the Final where two, hopefully, of our managers will contest against each other to lift the trophy. What will follow is eight updates, each containing four games, and detailed table updates and match summaries. All this will help you cast your votes next summer for the second Afrovision Managerial Contest champion. The hosts will open the tournament…

January 16th: Angola 2-3 Senegal

The tournament kicked off with the hosts against last year’s Afrovision highest-ranked team. Demba Ba, in his 13th appearance for his country, put Senegal in front 24 minutes into the match with a clean strike past the keeper. Receiving the ball from El-Hadji Diouf, his volley passed Hipolito Mario in the Angola net for a 1-0 lead. The score remained the same until half time, but was doubled early on in the second half thanks to Papa Bouba Diop. The 31-year-old took a considered shot and made the goal, with Diouf once again the provider. Just two minutes later, Angola had one back through Flávio, a goal quite similar to Ba’s opener, and the host nation then had the game level with another Flávio goal in the 63rd minute. Senegal goalkeeper Sylva was caught out when coming forwards with the ball, allowing the Angolan striker to run through and score. However, Ba secured the points with just minutes to go, with a wicked shot from 20 yards out.

Man of the Match: Demba Ba, FW, Senegal (8.4)

  Group A
 # Nation   P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Senegal  1 1 0 0 3 2 +1  3
 2 DR Congo 0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
   Ghana    0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
 4 Angola   1 0 0 1 2 3 -1  0

January 17th: Morocco 1-1 Guinea

Didier Dardon’s Morocco would be the next team to play at Angola 2010, against the expulsed Guinea. Things started well, and Nabil Baha’s 19th-minute pounce after a goalmouth scramble put the North Africans in front. However, they were pegged back just before half time, with Guinea’s Ismael Bangoura scoring in the 42nd minute. Amadou Cissé set him up, but Bangoura did all the hard work, running around a Morocco defence and simply sidefooting it into the net. That was a grevious error by Morocco’s defence, and they can be quite relieved that they got a draw, although a win would have been theirs had they been more clinical up front.

Man of the Match: Nabymoussa Yattara, GK, Guinea (8.3)

  Group B
 # Nation  P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Guinea  1 0 1 0 1 1  0  1
   Morocco 1 0 1 0 1 1  0  1
 3 Egypt   0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
   Mali    0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0

January 17th: Ivory Coast 4-2 Zambia

This game was a tale of two brothers and two others, as those were the four that did the scoring. Yaya Touré scored the opener for the Ivory Coast, and I’ll forgive you for thinking that Kolo scored at least one of the others (Kolo isn’t playing at the tournament, due to injury). 15 minutes in and Yaya put the Ivorians ahead, scoring with a brilliant chip from the corner of the penalty box. Just seven minutes later, 26-year-old Arouna Koné had the ball in the net for the second time for Albert Holstein’s side. A goalmouth scramble saw Koné poke the ball past Zambia keeper Kennedy Mweene to double to Ivorians’ lead. Yet it wasn’t over for Zambia and their female manager. Step up attacking midfielder Isaac Chansa, who got his first goal for his country by firing the ball into the bottom corner from 25 yards out. The score remained 2-1 until the break, but just five minutes into the second half, Arouna Koné had another opportunity to shine. Receiving the ball in the penalty box with his back to goal, he did a slow and slothy turn before firing the ball past Mweene for a 3-1 lead. That looked to be that for the Ivory Coast as the rest of the match trundled on without incident, but Isaac Chansa had something to say about that! Although he lost the ball after a cross into the penalty area, the inability of either the Ivorian defence to clear it or the Ivorian goalkeeper Stephan Loboué to grab it led to Chansa poking the ball into the net for his second goal of the match, and his second ever for Zambia. But Baky Koné, and here’s where the brothers thing comes in, put any fears to bed with a neat finish in the 90th minute.

Man of the Match: Isaac Chansa, AM, Zambia (8.7)

  Group C
 # Nation      P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Ivory Coast 1 1 0 0 4 2 +2  3
 2 Cape Verde  0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
   Tunisia     0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
 4 Zambia      1 0 0 1 2 4 -2  0

January 17th: Sudan 0-2 Cameroon

In this match, Liam Ferguson’s Cameroon had the result zipped up before half time. Of course, Sudan could have staged a comeback, but they evidently didn’t. Eyong Enoh opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, with a beautiful strike from 25 yards, and Joël Epalle closed it in the 30th minute, scoring the first headed goal of the tournament. To be honest, Sudan never looked like winning this game. That’s never during the match. Before, you might have said that they’d have had an outside chance.

Man of the Match: Joël Epalle, FW, Cameroon (7.7)

  Group D
 # Nation       P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Cameroon     1 1 0 0 2 0 +2  3
 2 Burkina Faso 0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
   Nigeria      0 0 0 0 0 0  0  0
 4 Sudan        1 0 0 1 0 2 -2  0

Next time, four matches, with each of the nations who haven’t yet played playing (I know that doesn't look right but read it again). This includes Afrovision Managerial Contest runners-up Mali against Cup of Nations holders Egypt!

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Asamoah Gyan's goal against Serbia gives him the opportunity to score some more, as Ghana kick off this update.

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2010 African Cup of Nations

More results from the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola.

January 18th: Ghana 1-2 DR Congo

I think this would be labelled as an upset. Craig Hopper’s DR Congo, who led 2-0 at half time, pull off a fantastic victory despite having four times fewer shots than their opponents. They opened the scoring in the 10th minute, with Bordeaux midfielder Cédric Mongongu getting his first goal for his country. Spotting a gap in the defence, he fired low from just outside the penalty area, and got the ball past Ghana ‘keeper Adam Larsen. The score was doubled by Lomana LuaLua in the 29th minute, when the Aston Villa man flung the ball into the top corner while stood between two Ghanaian defenders. Despite their shots and constant knocking at DR Congo’s door, Ghana couldn’t score before half time, and had to wait until the 63rd minute, when Asamoah Gyan’s strike, preceded by a sweet run into the penalty area, made it 1-2. But they couldn’t level, and were left disappointed that DR Congo had done so much with so little.

Man of the Match: Cédric Mongongu, MC, DR Congo (7.7)

  Group A
 # Nation   P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Senegal  1 1 0 0 3 2 +1  3
 2 DR Congo 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1  3
 3 Angola   1 0 0 1 2 3 -1  0
 4 Ghana    1 0 0 1 1 2 -1  0

January 18th: Mali 2-0 Egypt

Well, Egypt continued their disappointing form. They might have expected to get something out of this match, but ended up on the wrong side of a hammering. Discipline was an issue, as just 13 minutes in, Ahmed Fathi saw red for a brutal challenge on Momo Sissoko. Mali took full advantage, and were 2-0 up before half time. Seydou Keita took fantastically a brilliant long-range free kick to open the scoring in the 35th minute, and Frédéric Kanouté doubled Mali’s lead just six minutes later with a superb solo effort that saw him running from almost the halfway line, around the Egyptian defence until he was at the net, allowing him to coolly slot home. Perhaps things would have been different had Egypt not gone a man down, but they’ll need to do some work if they want to retain their title for the third consecutive year.

Man of the Match: Seydou Keita, ML, Mali (8.0)

  Group B
 # Nation  P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Mali    1 1 0 0 2 0 +2  3
 2 Guinea  1 0 1 0 1 1  0  1
   Morocco 1 0 1 0 1 1  0  1
 4 Egypt   1 0 0 1 0 2 -2  0

January 18th: Cape Verde 1-0 Tunisia

Any fans coming to see this match who were delayed by the highway collapse outside Luanda would have been severely short-changed. Cape Verde took the lead in the 3rd minute, and kept it throughout. Dady, also known as Eduardo Fernandes Pereira Gomes, headed the ball past the outstretched arm of Tunisia ‘keeper Aymen Mathlouthi to give his little island nation the lead. In all it wasn’t an entirely interesting match, which Tunisia just edged on possession and shots, but they couldn’t capitalise.

Man of the Match: Josimar Lima, DC, Cape Verde (7.4)

  Group C
 # Nation      P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Ivory Coast 1 1 0 0 4 2 +2  3
 2 Cape Verde  1 1 0 0 1 0 +1  3
 3 Tunisia     1 0 0 1 0 1 -1  0
 4 Zambia      1 0 0 1 2 4 -2  0

January 18th: Nigeria 1-0 Burkina Faso

Another 1-0 result, and one which you might have expected would be a little more one-sided. While Nigeria did dominate, they didn’t get the goals that could have resulted from that. John Utaka scored their only goal in the 7th minute, scoring from the rebound after his initial close-range shot clattered off Burkina Faso winger Wilfried Sanou, who had backtracked to cover the run.

Man of the Match: John Utaka, FW, Nigeria (7.5)

  Group D
 # Nation       P W D L F A GD Pts
 1 Cameroon     1 1 0 0 2 0 +2  3
 2 Nigeria      1 1 0 0 1 0 +1  3
 3 Burkina Faso 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1  0
 4 Sudan        1 0 0 1 0 2 -2  0

Next time, Ghana try to avenge their defeat with a match against Senegal, while DR Congo take on Angola with a view to getting another sneaky win.

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