Africa Cup Of Nations 2012!

baresi wrote:

english_jewel wrote:Get in!!!!!!

Nigeria are out!

Any reason for the excitment?

Mikel

izzy26 wrote:

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.

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false, Rawlings' revolution did not even involve Ghana sports..... after his revolution, he handed power back to a democratically elected government, then did another military revolution, before finally being elected as president in 1996......... his government was even more corrupt than those he "claimed" were more corrupt.....

Ghana football's success has been viable through the implementation of a youth policy since the 1990's, players like Essien, Mensah, Derek Boateng, Gyan and co were all teammates in FIFA youth tournaments in the 2000's, they got promoted to higher youth levels until they finally got to the senior team.

We are re-doing that again with Ayew, Badu, Vorsah, Adiyiah etc etc. so by the time the Essien's and co's are done, the new ones already know each other. We won the youth WC in Egypt a few yrs ago, so don't be shocked if most of those guys are in 2014 in Brazil......

Nigeria's corruption goes sh*t load every level, I do not know if there is even any non-corrupt Nigerian that exists in this world. Until they change that mentality, am sorry they will not see success now or ever....

p.s: just to add, Ghana made it cos Ghana football and government act as separate entities, government cannot interfere in football in Ghana, I cannot say same for Nigeria and several other African countries...

Sepi wrote:African football is so unpredictable.

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

This... African football is sucha mystery... I PROMISE you Ghana and Ivory Coast will not walk through this tournament at all... they tend to choke or stumble with TOP NOTCH squads.

Don't sleep on Botswana, Guinea, Senegal, Zambia or Niger... teams that can definitely hang with the rest. Senegal will be the team that goes under the radar. Niang, Sow, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse. Botswana really have a quiet but strong team.. they have great chemistry. Should be a wild ride early next year.

Go Senegal.

Demba Ba

Libya FTW!

I personally find it amazing how Libya actually manages to keep together an organised football NT with everything going on over there. And win, too.

Libya had invested a lot of resources into their football, they had won the bid to hold the tournament in 2013, so I guess they had some infrastructure laid down to make the most out of the talents they have.

Giggity5313 wrote:NOO we didn't make it! Time to root for morroco! My grandmother is from morroco after all..

u can always root for the better side; G H A N A

Saetablanca wrote:I personally find it amazing how Libya actually manages to keep together an organised football NT with everything going on over there. And win, too.

We've only just managed to reach there, and that's great considering the circumstances.

Football development over there has been quite slow, and you can thank a certain person who made it worse when he banned football about 30 years ago , which halted development a lot.

Our infrastructure is better than several other African nations, but still far from the desired standard. We have one or two big ugly stadiums, and other, smaller ugly stadiums. Far from great, but I hope football improves even more over there.

Hopefully we can organize ourselves more in time for 2012.

elmystique wrote:

Giggity5313 wrote:NOO we didn't make it! Time to root for morroco! My grandmother is from morroco after all..

u can always root for the better side; G H A N A

Ghana ftw

They are my favorite African side.

Devil-Is-Red wrote:Libya FTW!

english_jewel wrote:

elmystique wrote:

Giggity5313 wrote:NOO we didn't make it! Time to root for morroco! My grandmother is from morroco after all..

u can always root for the better side; G H A N A

Ghana ftw

They are my favorite African side.

The rebirth of Senegal.

nigeria didnt qualify=no playing time for romeu
if essien is fit by Jan and he goes to this tournament im going to rage, all his injury problems stem back to this tournament!
with no egypt or cameroon in it hopefuly ivory coast can win it, i dont think drogba has won an ACN before and if anyone deserves it he does

I just litened to the sports news, it said that the Nigerian NT coach subbed Mikel for a striker in the final minutes of the match when Nigeria was actually leading, and that lead to the equillizer, at the end of the game Nigeria was playing 4-1-5.

baresi wrote:I just litened to the sports news, it said that the Nigerian NT coach subbed Mikel for a striker in the final minutes of the match when Nigeria was actually leading, and that lead to the equillizer, at the end of the game Nigeria was playing 4-1-5.

nigeria

ivory coast, ghana and senegal r the top dogs in this tourney.
Too bad we won't be participating due to poor management.

Hope Libya and the hosts do well.

Thank you ACN.

Mali FTW!!!!!!!

1 Mali victory = 1 less game for Keita at Barça.

Go Mali!! Keita in ACB as long as possible!

Keita plays basketball? (ACB)

Ghana all da way(if we dont win this one then perhaps we neva will again)... btw Rawlings won d elections on two ocassions; '92&'96

The final 2 spots have been secured last night.

Morocco beat Tanzania to top Group D.

And CAF lost to Algeria, so Sudan have secured their spot as well.

7amood11 wrote:

Saetablanca wrote:I personally find it amazing how Libya actually manages to keep together an organised football NT with everything going on over there. And win, too.

We've only just managed to reach there, and that's great considering the circumstances.

Football development over there has been quite slow, and you can thank a certain person who made it worse when he banned football about 30 years ago , which halted development a lot.

Our infrastructure is better than several other African nations, but still far from the desired standard. We have one or two big ugly stadiums, and other, smaller ugly stadiums. Far from great, but I hope football improves even more over there.

Hopefully we can organize ourselves more in time for 2012.

Yes, though I havent had the opportunity to see Libyas football infrastructure I know exactly what its like over there. So much potential, and not just in football. TBH I will root for our Libyan brothers in this cup.

Im calling it, Botswana the darkhorse.

look at their group, and look at what they did away and at home. The Zebras ftw.

i was surprised we didnt qualify after winning the competition 3 times in a row but we deserve it bradley should call up youngsters and rebuild this squad because we actually have a very good team and a fighting spirit that not many teams have .And i hope not qualifying is a wake up call for us and we can now focus on building the squad then focusing on qualifing to the world cup