Africa Cup Of Nations 2012!

Most of the qualifiers have been completed!

And 14 out of 16 teams have qualified. The remaining qualifiers are being played tomorrow, and only two of them will have any significance (Algeria vs CAF and Morocco vs Tanzania).

The 14 qualified teams are:

Gabon (as co-hosts)
Equitorial Guinea (as co-hosts)
Mali (as Group A winner)
Guinea (as Group B winner)
Zambia (as Group C winner)
____ (Group D winner, TBD tomorrow)
Senegal (as Group E winner)
Burkina Faso (as Group F winner)
Niger (as Group G winner)
Côte d'Ivoire (as Group H winner)
Ghana (as Group I winner)
Angola (as Group J winner)
Botswana (as Group K winner)
Tunisia (as Group K runners-up)
Libya (as 1st best runners-up baby! )
_____ (2nd best runners-up, TBD tomorrow)


The draw will be held on the 29th of October.

I expect some spicy games here. High level of competition also.

It's a shame that Nigeria, Egypt (bottom of their group lulz) and Algeria haven't made it.

Botswana have really surprised me though. It's the first time they ever make it to the finals, and they've done so in style.


What are your thoughts? Discuss.

How the f did cameroon n egypt not qualify

Gervinho to score 6 goals on the way

We are probably going to step out as well, ffs, so much shame

Gervinho is gone

But SONG IS STAYING!

We didn't qualify. We played like sh!t for most of it and didn't deserve to go through. It had nothing to do with the revolution either; we just sucked. Too many old players were still being picked and played. Shikabala was not given enough of a chance to prove himself even though he's probably our best player. Pity..

We are losing Tiote and Demba Ba for this tourny ffs......

SPEND SPEND SPEND !!!!!!!!!!!!!

So finally we'll have a new winner in African cup of nations ?

Even if Egypt had qualified, we probably wouldn't have done jack. Team management was horrible.

Ghana will win it

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:We are probably going to step out as well, ffs, so much shame

I know the feeling bro. Nigeria

The corruption within are FA has become so disgusting that we may need to adopt Ghana's tactics to end this corrpution.

This CANNOT go on.

Ghana, Cote D'ivoire and Nigeria are the best teams. Algeria and Morocco are very close, or even equal to them too. Nigeria always perform well in AFCON but Ghana haven't had a solid tournament for a while (Yes, yes, I know all about the last one, but that might just be a one-off thing).

Cote D'iviore and Ghana are the likeliest candidates to win though.
Cameroon would have been a nice addition though

Cote D'iviore to win !

Spoiler:

Iceman wrote:Ghana, Cote D'ivoire and Nigeria are the best teams. Algeria and Morocco are very close, or even equal to them too. Nigeria always perform well in AFCON but Ghana haven't had a solid tournament for a while (Yes, yes, I know all about the last one, but that might just be a one-off thing).

Cote D'iviore and Ghana are the likeliest candidates to win though.
Cameroon would have been a nice addition though

Can't agree there. We have a fantastic future if incoporate our youth correctly and on paper we have a brillaint squad but the corruption within the FA is killing us and FAST.

I really fear for our future if something radical is not done and soon.

We're the dark horses, you heard it here first.

Iceman wrote:Gervinho is gone

But SONG IS STAYING!

We didn't qualify. We played like sh!t for most of it and didn't deserve to go through. It had nothing to do with the revolution either; we just sucked. Too many old players were still being picked and played. Shikabala was not given enough of a chance to prove himself even though he's probably our best player. Pity..

yeah we just sucked.. Today we played with good players and some of them are young and we crushed niger today..bradley needs to get rid of the old useless players and use players like shikabala ,mohamed ibrahim and sayed hamdy and hossam ashour

Nigeria

Ghana and Ivory Coast will walk it.

izzy26 wrote:

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:We are probably going to step out as well, ffs, so much shame

I know the feeling bro. Nigeria

The corruption within are FA has become so disgusting that we may need to adopt Ghana's tactics to end this corrpution.

This CANNOT go on.

How did Ghana do it?

baresi wrote:

izzy26 wrote:

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:We are probably going to step out as well, ffs, so much shame

I know the feeling bro. Nigeria

The corruption within are FA has become so disgusting that we may need to adopt Ghana's tactics to end this corrpution.

This CANNOT go on.

How did Ghana do it?

Extreme. I think a guy named Rollins led a revolution in Ghana and killed EVERY SINGLE corrupt figure. Pulled Ghana out of International Competition and completly rebuilt the country and its football.
They are years ahead of us. It's a scary prospect but it is soon becoming a harsh reality that might happen if this contiues.

Get in!!!!!!

Nigeria are out!

I really hope Ghana wins it, we've not won the AFCON since we beat Libya on penalties in Libya '82. It will be great for this side to finally win it, especially after the disappointment of finishing third when we last hosted the tournament in 2008, we were the beaten finalist in 2010, judging by our progress and the lack of it by our closest rivals, I have a feeling we'll finally win it.

I think the new setup is excellent and our first 11 is the team to beat on the continent.



Our bench would have KP Boateng, Adiyah, Prince Tagoe, Jonathan Mensah, Muntari, Essien? , Jordan Ayew. We should have more than enough arsenal to win the trophy. We also have plans of naturalizing Ahmed Toure, an Ivorian striker who plays for Asante Kotoko, he's currently the best player in the Ghana league.

How come Egypt did not qualify.They had a very good squad in the the pas 1-2 years!

english_jewel wrote:Get in!!!!!!

Nigeria are out!

Any reason for the excitment?

African football is so unpredictable.

looking forward to see Equatorial Guinea....they have some fantastic youngsters coming through, been following their league this year.

baresi wrote:

english_jewel wrote:Get in!!!!!!

Nigeria are out!

Any reason for the excitment?

Mikel