AFCON CAMEROON 2021 Afcon 2013: Kickoff today! All you get to know!

D-2! Afcon 2013 is coming! The great mass of African football promises to be an exciting again!
Here’s everything you need to know: pools, schedule and the first encounters.

Pools:
There are 4 groups of 4 teams:
Group A: South Africa, Angola, Morocco and Cape Verde
Group B: Ghana, Mali, Niger, Congo R.D
Group C: Zambia, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia.
Group C: Côte d’Ivoire, Tunisia, Algeria, Togo

All figures:
Five: five stages will be used for the finals in South Africa in 2013. These five places were all built or renovated for the World Cup South Africa 2010.
Soccer City in Johannesburg, will host the inaugural two matches and the finals on February 10.

The other matches will be played in Durban, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth and Rustenburg.
Seven: seven triumphs in Afcon: this is the record, held by Egypt, absent this year in South Africa. The Pharaohs have won the competition three times between 2006 and 2010, but failed to qualify for the 2013 edition. To everyone’s surprise, they were eliminated in the qualifications by the Central African Republic. However, their record is not threatened. Their closest pursuer present in South Africa, Ghana counts four sacred continental totals.

Seven: 7 participations in the competition as coach: the threshold that will reach in South Africa, Claude Le Roy at the head of the DR Congo. Before that, the French coach had already participated in the Afcon at the head of Cameroon (1986, 1988), Senegal (1990, 1992), DR Congo (2006) and Ghana (2008). The national teams he has trained have always managed to pass the first round. He won the event with the Indomitable Lions in 1988.

Ten: 10 of the 16 participants in the final phase in 2013 have already lifted the supreme trophy of selections in Africa. The edition that is about to start promises to be detected, even in the absence of Egypt, seven times winner of the event, and Cameroon, four times African champion. The six teams in South Africa and who have never won the Afcon are Angola, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Togo and Cape Verde which is participating in the tournament for the first time.

Twelve: 12 months have passed since the last edition of Afcon, co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The timing of the event has been changed so that it now takes place in even years. The next edition will take place early 2015 in Morocco.

Thirteen: 13 participations in the semifinals for Nigeria, second in the rankings behind Egypt, which is called 14 times in the last four. The Super Eagles emerged victorious six times the semi-finals and have two coronations in the Afcon.

Fourteen: 14 foreign coaches have won the Nations Cup. The first of them is the Hungarian Josef Titkos with the Egyptian selection in 1959. Exactly the same number of wins (14) is to the credit of African coaches on behalf of their homeland. The latest is the Egyptian Hassan Shehata, triple champion of Africa with the Pharaohs from 2006 to 2010.

Eighteen: 18 goals scored in Afcon: is the record for a single player, owned by Samuel Eto’o. With 10 goals so far in the supreme test selections in Africa, Didier Drogba will have the opportunity in South Africa to approach the record of the Cameroonian striker.

Nineteen: 19 nations have hosted the Afcon. South Africa hosts the tournament for the second time, after having already hosted and won in 1996. The next two hosts, Morocco in 2015 and Libya in 2017, will also have their second Afcon organized. Egypt and Ghana have hosted the event four times. In 2000, Ghana was a co-organizer with Nigeria.

Twenty-nine: 29 editions of the Afcon have been played once the curtain will be landed on South Africa 2013. The first version of the event took place in Sudan in 1957. At the time, the final phase consisted of three teams. There will then have eight, then 12. In 1996, the format of the event has been expanded to 16 teams, even if on this occasion, we counted only 15 participants because of the package of Nigeria.

Forty 40 years passed before South Africa, one of the founding members of the Confederation of African Football, does not participate in their first finals of Afcon. South Africa had formed the CAF with Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in 1956, but was excluded from the governing body of African football next year because of its apartheid policy. It was after the coming to power of Nelson Mandela and the end of white minority rule that  the Bafana Bafana were able to participate for the first time in 1996, in the event.

Seventy-six: 76 goals were scored in the last edition, five more than in the Afcon 2010. The record is 99 goals. It was established in Ghana in 2008, at the end of the 32 matches played.

Three hundred sixty-eight: 368 players participating in the Afcon 2013. Each selection has a right to a staff of 23 players, which must include three goalkeepers. In case of injury, changes can be made 48 hours before the first match of the team concerned.

Five hundred and six: 506 thousand people: this is the population of Cape Verde, the smallest country in the tournament. Cape Verdeans beat the record set last year by Equatorial Guinea, co-organizer of the event in 2012.

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Schedule
Jan. 19 (Gr A), Johannesburg:
South Africa – Cape Verde
Angola – Morocco

Jan. 20 (Gr B), Port Elizabeth
Ghana – DR Congo
Mali – Niger

Jan. 21 (Gr C), Nelspruit
Zambia – Ethiopia
Nigeria – Burkina Faso

Jan. 22 (Gr D) in Rustenburg
Côte d’Ivoire – Togo
Tunisia – Algeria

Jan. 23 (Gr A) in Durban
South Africa – Angola
Morocco – Cape Verde

Jan. 24 (Gr B), Port Elizabeth
Ghana – Mali
Niger – Congo

Jan. 25 (Gr C) in Nelspruit
Zambia – Nigeria
Burkina Faso – Ethiopia

Jan. 26 (Gr D), Rustenburg
Côte d’Ivoire – Tunisia
Algeria – Togo

Jan. 27 (Gr A)
Durban: Morocco – South Africa
Port Elizabeth to Cape Verde – Angola

Jan. 28 (Gr B)
Port Elizabeth: Niger – Ghana
Durban: DR Congo – Mali

Jan. 29 (Gr C)
A Nelspruit: Burkina Faso – C1
A Rustenburg: Ethiopia – Nigeria

Jan. 30 (Gr D)
A Rustenburg: Algeria – Ivory Coast
A Nelspruit: Togo – Tunisia

QUARTER-FINALS
February 2
In Durban: Winner Group A – 2nd Group B (quarter 1)
In Port Elizabeth: Winner Group B – 2nd Group A (Quarter 2)

February 3
A Nelspruit: Winner Group C – Group D second (quarter 3)
A Rustenburg: Winner Group D – 2nd group C (quarter 4)

SEMIFINALS
February 6
In Durban: winner 1 quart – 4 quart winner
A Nelspruit winner quart 2 – 3 quart winner

MATCH FOR THIRD PLACE
February 9 in Port Elizabeth

FINAL
February 10 in Johannesburg


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