Africa Cup

The Africa Cup is held in Angola from January 10 to 31 January but this year everything is in the air after the attack on the selection of Togo in which killed two members of his federation.

This issue will be number 27. It is curious that the European Championship has been held only thirteen times, but is that the African Nations Cup is held twice a year. Takes place every two years the most important meeting of African football. Has been held regularly since 1968 and has its qualifying campaign to reduce the number of participants in the finals from 48 to 16.

The teams are divided into four groups, and these were the following:

Group A: Angola, Mali, Malawi and Algeria
Group B: Ivory Coast, Burkina Fasso, Ghana and Togo.
Group C: Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin.
Group D: Cameroon, Gabon, Zambia and Tunisia.

Of course, the silky sheets tournament moves to a second knockout phase from the quarterfinals, which are classified for the top two in each group. Egypt is the current defending champions and the most trophies has managed, with A total of six of the 27 disputed issues. We are Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria with four Democratic Republic of Congo with two.

UPDATE: Togo finally decided to withdraw from the tournament by the pressures of his prime minister who forbade participation.

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