2008 African Cup of Nations
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The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated to the Confederation of African Football
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those...

 (CAF). The tournament was staged at four venues around Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 between 20 January and 10 February 2008. Egypt won the tournament, beating Cameroon
Cameroon national football team
The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Les Lions Indomptables , is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and is Africa's most successful side in FIFA world cup; having qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times – in 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010– more than any...

 1–0 in the final. With 99 goals, it was the highest-scoring Africa Cup of Nations ever.

Background

Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

 won the right to host the tournament after defeating Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 9–3 in a vote among Confederation of African Football
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football is the administrative and controlling body for African association football.CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental, national, and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those...

 (CAF) executive committee members in Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

. South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 withdrew their bid after winning the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

Host venues

Accra
Accra
Accra is the capital and largest city of Ghana, with an urban population of 1,658,937 according to the 2000 census. Accra is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District, with which it is coterminous...

Kumasi
Kumasi
Kumasi is a city in southern central Ghana's Ashanti region. It is located near Lake Bosomtwe, in the Rain Forest Region about northwest of Accra. Kumasi is approximately north of the Equator and north of the Gulf of Guinea...

Tamale
Tamale, Ghana
Tamale with a population of 360,579 , is the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana and the Tamale Metropolitan District with which it is coterminous Area. The city is located 600 km north of Accra...

Sekondi-Takoradi
Sekondi-Takoradi
Sekondi-Takoradi, population 335,000 , comprising the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi, is the capital of the Western Region of Ghana. It is Ghana's fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center. The chief industries are timber, plywood, shipbuilding and railroad repair and...

Ohene Djan Stadium Baba Yara Stadium Tamale Stadium
Tamale Stadium
Tamale Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tamale, Ghana. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Real Tamale United. It hosted some matches during the 2008 African Cup of Nations. The stadium's capacity is 21,017 people and was completed in 2008 by the...

Sekondi-Takoradi Stadium
Sekondi-Takoradi Stadium
Sekondi-Takoradi Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Sekondi Hasaacas FC. It hosted some matches during 2008 African Cup of Nations. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people and opened in...

5°33′05.51"N 0°11′30.36"W 6°40′57.65"N 1°36′18.40"W 9°24′35"N 0°51′42"W 4.976898°N 1.681799°W
Capacity: 45,000 Capacity: 40,528 Capacity: 21,017 Capacity: 20,088

Qualification

The entrants were divided into 12 groups. All group winners and the best three runners-up from groups with four teams (groups 2-11) qualified for the finals. Host Ghana qualified automatically. Qualifying took place between 2 September 2006 and 13 October 2007.

Teams

– Host, 16th appearance (4 titles) – Group 1 winner, 17th appearance (1 title) – Group 2 winner, 21st appearance (5 titles) – Group 3 winner, 15th appearance (2 titles) – Group 4 winner, 7th appearance (1 title) – Group 5 winner, 15th appearance (4 titles) – Group 6 winner, 4th appearance – Group 7 winner, 11th appearance – Group 8 winner, 9th appearance – Group 9 winner, 5th appearance – Group 10 winner, 2nd appearance – Group 11 winner, 13th appearance – Group 12 winner, 13th appearance (1 title) – Group 4 runner-up, 13th appearance (1 title) – Group 9 runner-up, 2nd appearance – Group 11 runner-up, 7th appearance (1 title)

Match officials

16 referees and 16 assistant referees were selected for the tournament, including two from Japan and one from South Korea.
Referees Assistant Referees
  Mohamed Benouza
Mohamed Benouza
Mohamed Benouza is an Algerian football referee who currently resides in Oran. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2001....

  Brahim Djezzar
  Divine Evehe   Evarist Menkouande
  Yuichi Nishimura
Yuichi Nishimura
is a Japanese football referee who has been a full international referee for FIFA.He was the only Asian referee and one of three judges selected to judge in 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana along with assistant referees Toru Sagara from Japan and Jeong Hae-Sang from South Korea. He was also a...

  Toru Sagara
  Abderrahim El Arjoun   Redouane Achik
  Jerome Damon
Jerome Damon
Jerome Damon is a South African football referee.An international referee since 2000, Damon was on stand-by for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and was a referee at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, 2008 Africa Cup of Nations and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.He was preselected as a...

  Enock Molefe
  Kokou Djaoupe
Kokou Djaoupe
Kokou Djaoupe is a Togolese football referee, who has refereed 21 games in African competitions.He was selected to be one of the referees of the 2008 and 2010 African Cup of Nations....

  Komi Konyoh
  Kacem Bennaceur   Bechir Hassani
  Djamel Haimoudi   Jeong Hae-Sang
  Coffi Codjia
Coffi Codjia
Coffi Codjia is a Beninese football referee.An international referee since 1994, Codjia was a referee at the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006, the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999 and 2003 and the African Cup of Nations in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, in which he was the referee for the final, and...

  Celestin Ntagungira
  Modou Sowe
Modou Sowe
Modou Sowe is a Gambian football referee who currently resides in Gambia. He first became a full international referee for FIFA in 1998....

  Angesom Ogbamariam
  Alex Kotey   Desire Gahungu
  Koman Coulibaly
Koman Coulibaly
Koman Coulibaly is a Malian football referee. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 1999, and officiated his first international match on April 19, 2000, between Mali and Burkina Faso. Coulibaly is one of Mali's most experienced officials, having been selected for five Africa Cup...

  Lassina Paré
Lassina Paré
Lassina Paré is a Burkinabé football referee who currently resides in Burkina Faso. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 1997....

  Badara Diatta   Peter Edibe
  Eddy Maillet
Eddy Maillet
Eddy Allen Maillet is a Seychellois football referee. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2001.He was selected as a referee for the 2004 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia, the 2006 African Cup of Nations in Egypt, 2007 AFC Asian Cup, the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana,...

  Inacio Manuel Candido
  Muhmed Ssegonga   Nasser Sadek Abdel Nabi
  Kenias Marange   Kenneth Chichenga

Seeding and grouping procedure

The draw for the tournament took place on 19 October 2007. The sixteen teams were divided into four pots according to their performances in past Cup of Nations tournaments. Ghana, as host, were automatically seeded as the top team in Group A. Egypt, the defending champions, were seeded as the top team in Group C. Each group consists of four teams, one drawn from each of the pots.
  • Pot 1: Ghana (Group A), Egypt (Group C), Nigeria, Tunisia
  • Pot 2: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, Senegal
  • Pot 3: Guinea, Mali, South Africa, Zambia
  • Pot 4: Angola, Benin, Namibia, Sudan

Tournament ball

During the previous editions of the Africa Cup of Nations, the ball used was not a ball especially made for the tournament. As the tournament was held on even years, the same years big tournaments such as the UEFA European Cup of Nations or the FIFA World Cup were held, the official ball for the tournament held this year was used for the African Cup of Nations: the Adidas Roteiro in 2004, or the Adidas Teamgeist in 2006. However, for the 2008 tournament, Adidas made a special ball, clearly different from the Adidas Europass going to be used five months later for the Euro. The ball was named Wawa Aba and was designed to include host nation Ghana’s red, yellow and green. The ball was later used for the other African competitions.

For the Akan culture originating from Western Africa, the name Wawa Aba is a symbol of persistence. People there particularly believe in the strength and team spirit of a community. The Wawa Aba is the seed of the Wawa tree, one of the strongest and most processible woods of Africa. For the population, the Wawa Aba mainly has mystical significance. These are people who don’t let failure discourage them, who seize all opportunities successfully and who are thus just as strong and adaptable as the Wawa Aba.

Group stage

Key to colors in group tables
Top two placed teams advanced to the quarter-finals

Tie-breaking criteria

Where two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:
  1. points earned in the matches between the teams concerned;
  2. goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned;
  3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. number of away goals scored in the matches between the teams concerned;
  5. goal difference in all group matches;
  6. number of goals scored in all group matches;
  7. drawing of lots by the organizing committee.


All times given as local time (UTC+0
UTC+0
UTC±0 is the following time:*Coordinated Universal Time, the basis for the world's civil time, occasionally referred to by the name of its predecessor, Greenwich Mean Time.*Western European Time .-As standard time :...

)

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 3 0 0 5 1
4
9
3 1 1 1 5 5 0 4
3 1 0 2 7 6
1
3
3 0 1 2 2 7
1

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Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 3 0 0 8 1
7
9
3 1 1 1 2 1
1
4
3 1 1 1 1 3
4
3 0 0 3 1 7
0

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Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 2 1 0 8 3
5
7
3 2 0 1 10 5
5
6
3 1 1 1 5 6
4
3 0 0 3 0 9
0

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Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
3 1 2 0 5 3
2
5
3 1 2 0 4 2
2
5
3 0 2 1 4 6
2
3 0 2 1 3 5
2

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Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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3rd Place

Final




Best XI

The following players were selected as the best in their respective positions, based on their performances throughout the tournament. Their performances were analysed by the tournament's Technical Study Group (TSG), who picked the team.
Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards

  Essam El-Hadary
Essam El-Hadary
Essam El-Hadary is an Egyptian goalkeeper, playing for Sudan Premier League side El-Merreikh.-Club career:Swiss club FC Sion announced that they had signed El-Hadary to a four-year contract in February 2008, despite claims to the contrary from his club Al-Ahly...

 

  Geremi Njitap
Geremi Njitap
Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso , known simply as Geremi, is a Cameroonian footballer who is currently a free agent.-Early career:...

 

  Wael Gomaa
Wael Gomaa
Wael Gomaa is an Egyptian footballer. He plays as a defender for Egypt's African Champion Al-Ahly club as well as Egypt's National Football Team-Club career:...

 

  Michael Essien
Michael Essien
Michael Kojo Essien is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Ghanaian national team. He is a midfielder who has often been touted as a box-to-box midfielder for his ability to exert boundless energy in supporting offensive and defensive play...

 

  Sulley Muntari
Sulley Muntari
Sulleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari is a Ghanaian international footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan in Italy. He has 66 caps for The Black Stars of Ghana.-Early career:...

 

  Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré
Gnégnéri Yaya Touré , commonly known as Yaya Touré, is an Ivorian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Côte d'Ivoire national side...

 

  Alexandre Song
Alexandre Song
Alexandre "Alex" Dimitri Song Billong , more commonly known as Alex Song, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Premier League side Arsenal and the Cameroon national team as a midfielder. He is the cousin of The Panthers central defender Rigobert Song...

 

  Hosny Abd Rabo
Hosny Abd Rabo
Hosny Abd Rabo Abdel Mottaleb Ibrahim is an Egyptian footballer, who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for the Egyptian Premier League club Ismaily...

 

  Mohamed Aboutreika
Mohamed Aboutreika
Mohamed Aboutrika is an Egyptian footballer. Aboutrika plays as a second striker and as an attacking midfielder for the Egyptian team Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national football team....

 

  Amr Zaki
Amr Zaki
Amr Zaki is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Zamalek and the Egypt national team. He is known for his strong headers and for being a top striker in Africa.-Early career:...

 

  Manucho
Manucho
Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves , better known as Manucho, is an Angolan footballer who currently plays for Real Valladolid.He moved from Petro Atletico to Manchester United in January 2008...

 


Substitutes Richard Kingson
Richard Kingson
Richard Paul Franck Kingson is a Ghanaian professional football goalkeeper, who is currently a free agent. He is also known as Faruk Gürsoy and is frequently misnamed Kingston due to "irregularity on his identity documents"...

 Hany Saïd
Hany Saïd
Hany Said is an Egyptian football player, who currently plays for Misr El Makasa.He started his youth career at Al Ahly in 1997, but moved to the Italian club A.S...

 Ahmed Fathy
Ahmed Fathy
Ahmed Fathy is an Egyptian international football player. He currently plays for El-Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League. He plays a variety of roles in the midfield such as right midfielder and defensive midfielder and occasionally in the right back role for club and country.-Club career:Fathy...

 Frej Saber
Saber Ben Frej
Saber Ben Frej is a Tunisian footballer.-Club career:During the first half of the 2007-08 season, Ben Frej scored 9 goals in 13 games for Etoile du Sahel, before his move to Le Mans UC72 in January 2008 and on 4 January 2010 his club have released the Tunisian defender, who becomes a free...

 Stéphane Mbia
Stéphane Mbia
Stéphane Mbia Etoundi is a Cameroonian football player who plays for French League 1 club Olympique Marseille.-Career:...

 Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba
Didier Yves Drogba Tébily is an Ivorian footballer who plays in the centre forward position. He currently plays for Chelsea in the Premier League, where he is deputy vice-captain, and is the captain and all-time top scorer of the Côte d'Ivoire national football team...

 Abdul Kader Keïta
Abdul Kader Keïta
Abdel-Kader Keïta is an Ivorian professional football player. Keïta plays as a winger for Al-Sadd in the Qatar Stars League and the Cote d'Ivoire national football team....


Scorers

5 goals Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy...



4 goals Manucho
Manucho
Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves , better known as Manucho, is an Angolan footballer who currently plays for Real Valladolid.He moved from Petro Atletico to Manchester United in January 2008...

 Hosny Abd Rabo
Hosny Abd Rabo
Hosny Abd Rabo Abdel Mottaleb Ibrahim is an Egyptian footballer, who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for the Egyptian Premier League club Ismaily...

 Mohamed Aboutreika
Mohamed Aboutreika
Mohamed Aboutrika is an Egyptian footballer. Aboutrika plays as a second striker and as an attacking midfielder for the Egyptian team Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national football team....

 Amr Zaki
Amr Zaki
Amr Zaki is an Egyptian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Zamalek and the Egypt national team. He is known for his strong headers and for being a top striker in Africa.-Early career:...



3 goals Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba
Didier Yves Drogba Tébily is an Ivorian footballer who plays in the centre forward position. He currently plays for Chelsea in the Premier League, where he is deputy vice-captain, and is the captain and all-time top scorer of the Côte d'Ivoire national football team...

 Salomon Kalou
Salomon Kalou
Salomon Armand Magloire Kalou is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a striker for Chelsea in the Premier League.He is often used on the wings at Chelsea. He has a preference for playing on the left wing as this gives him opportunities to cut inside and take shots with his favoured right foot...

 Abdul Kader Keïta
Abdul Kader Keïta
Abdel-Kader Keïta is an Ivorian professional football player. Keïta plays as a winger for Al-Sadd in the Qatar Stars League and the Cote d'Ivoire national football team....

 Boubacar Sanogo
Boubacar Sanogo
Boubacar Sanogo is an Ivorian footballer who currently plays for AS Saint-Étienne in the French Ligue 1.- Career :...

 Junior Agogo
Junior Agogo
Manuel "Junior" Agogo is a Ghanaian professional footballer. He is a striker and currently plays for Scottish Premier League side Hibernian. He has spent most of his career in England, as well as spells in the United States, Egypt and most recently Cyprus. He attended St...

 Sulley Muntari
Sulley Muntari
Sulleyman Ali "Sulley" Muntari is a Ghanaian international footballer who currently plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan in Italy. He has 66 caps for The Black Stars of Ghana.-Early career:...

 Soufiane Alloudi
Soufiane Alloudi
Soufiane Alloudi is a Moroccan football striker currently playing for Al-Ain FC.On September 2007, ADLI has transferred by Raja Casablanca to Al-Ain FC on a 3 year contract, his loan fee was reported to be 450.000 $....



2 goals Geremi Njitap
Geremi Njitap
Geremi Sorele Njitap Fotso , known simply as Geremi, is a Cameroonian footballer who is currently a free agent.-Early career:...

 Joseph-Désiré Job Stéphane Mbia
Stéphane Mbia
Stéphane Mbia Etoundi is a Cameroonian football player who plays for French League 1 club Olympique Marseille.-Career:...

 Mohamed Zidan
Mohamed Zidan
Mohamed Abdullah Zidan is an Egyptian footballer. He currently plays as a striker for the German club Borussia Dortmund as well as the Egyptian national team. Nicknamed "Zizou", he is known for putting unique designs in his hair.-Early career:Zidan was born in Port Said, Egypt, to an Egyptian...

 Michael Essien
Michael Essien
Michael Kojo Essien is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Ghanaian national team. He is a midfielder who has often been touted as a box-to-box midfielder for his ability to exert boundless energy in supporting offensive and defensive play...

 Pascal Feindouno
Pascal Feindouno
Pascal Feindouno is a Guinean international footballer, who currently plays for Swiss side FC Sion as a winger.- Early career :...


2 goals, cont. Brian Brendell
Brian Brendell
Brian Brendell is a Namibian football midfielder with FC Civics of the Namibia Premier League. A member of the Namibia national football team, he competed with the team at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations.-External links:*...

 Yakubu Aiyegbeni
Yakubu Aiyegbeni
Yakubu Aiyegbeni , generally known simply as Yakubu, is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a striker for Blackburn Rovers and the Nigerian national football team. His nickname is "The Yak".-Early career:...

 Elrio van Heerden
Elrio van Heerden
Elrio van Heerden is a South African footballer who plays as midfielder for Golden Arrows in the Premier Soccer League. He is also an established member of the South African national team...

 Chaouki Ben Saada
Chaouki Ben Saada
Chaouki Ben Saada is a Tunisian footballer, currently playing for RC Lens in France.-Career:Ben Saada plays as either a midfielder or a striker, and in 170 appearances with Bastia, he scored 16 goals for the team.Despite much interest from bigger clubs, he remained with Bastia...

 Francileudo dos Santos Chris Katongo

1 goal Flávio
Flávio Amado
Flávio da Silva Amado , better known as Flávio, is an Angolan football forward who most recently played for Lierse S.K in Belgium....

 Razak Omotoyossi
Razak Omotoyossi
Razak Omotoyossi is a Nigerian-born Beninese footballer who plays for Egyptian club Zamalek and also for the Benin national football team....

 Achille Emana
Achille Emana
Achille Emana Edzimbi , known as Emana, is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for Al-Hilal FC in Saudi Arabia, as an attacking midfielder.-Toulouse:...

 Alain Nkong
Alain Nkong
Alain N'Kong is a Cameroonian football midfielder who is currently playing for Atjeh United F.C..- Career :Early in his career, N'Kong played all over the world, including Las Palmas in Spain, Nacional in Uruguay, and FC Paços de Ferreira in Portugal...

 Aruna Dindane Bakari Koné
Bakari Koné
Bakari Koné is an Ivorian football striker who plays for Qatar League side Lekhwiya.-Early career:Like many other Ivorian stars, he began his career at the famed youth academy at ASEC Mimosas, run by Frenchman Jean-Marc Guillou in his home country. Guillou recalls: "One day, when I was passing...

 Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré
Gnégnéri Yaya Touré , commonly known as Yaya Touré, is an Ivorian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Côte d'Ivoire national side...

 Marco Zoro
Marco Zoro
Marco André Zoro Kpolo , known as Zoro, is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a defender.-Club career:...

 Ahmed Fathy
Ahmed Fathy
Ahmed Fathy is an Egyptian international football player. He currently plays for El-Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League. He plays a variety of roles in the midfield such as right midfielder and defensive midfielder and occasionally in the right back role for club and country.-Club career:Fathy...

 Haminu Dramani Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan
Asamoah Gyan is a Ghanaian professional footballer, who plays as a striker for Emirati club Al Ain in the UAE Pro-League , and the Ghana national team....

 Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
Quincy James Owusu-Abeyie , often known simply by his first name, Quincy, is a Ghana international footballer who plays for Superleague Greece club Panathinaikos as a forward or winger....

 Ismaël Bangoura
Ismaël Bangoura
Ismaël Bangoura is a Guinean football striker who currently plays for Al Nasr SC and the Guinea national team. His favourite position is striker. Also, Bangoura has played as a winger and attacking midfielder.-Early career:...

 Oumar Kalabane
Oumar Kalabane
Oumar Kalabane is a professional footballer from Guinea. He currently plays as a defender.-Club career:Kalabane spent two seasons with AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1, appearing in 20 league matches...



1 goal, cont. Souleymane Youla
Souleymane Youla
Souleymane Youla is a Guinean football player. He Currently Free Agent.-Career:Youla's greatest attribute is his speed and ability to pass defenders by using this aspect of his game...

 Frédéric Kanouté
Frédéric Kanouté
Frédéric Oumar Kanouté is a French-born Malian footballer who currently plays for Sevilla FC in the Spanish La Liga. On 2 February 2008, Kanouté was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year and is the first foreign-born player to win it.-Lyon:Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Kanouté's...

 Hicham Aboucherouane Abdeslam Ouaddou
Abdeslam Ouaddou
Abdeslam Ouaddou is a Moroccan football defender. He currently plays for Qatar SC.-Career:He started his footballing career quite late, at the age of 21. On December 7, 2006 Ouaddou asked Olympiacos to release him free because he felt homesick and had some family problems...

 Tarik Sektioui
Tarik Sektioui
Tarik Sektioui is a retired Moroccan footballer. A right winger, he was best known for his good control of the ball, technique, and speed, and spent most of his professional career in the Netherlands and Portugal.-Club career:...

 Monsef Zerka
Monsef Zerka
Monsef Zerka is a French-born Moroccan professional footballer. He plays in Major League Soccer for New England Revolution. He originally played as a striker, but throughout his career he has also played as a fullback and as a midfielder.-AS Nancy:...

 Mikel John Obi
Mikel John Obi
John Michael Nchekwube Obinna , commonly known as Mikel John Obi, John Obi Mikel or John Mikel Obi, is a Nigerian footballer, who plays as a midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Nigeria national team.-Club career:...

 Moustapha Bayal Sall
Moustapha Bayal Sall
Moustapha Bayal Sall is a Senegalese football midfielder who currently plays for AS Saint-Étienne. He joined the Ligue 1 club during the summer of 2006 from Senegalese club US Gorée following a brief spell with in IK Start in Norway.In March 2007 he signed a contract with IK Start...

 Henri Camara
Henri Camara
Henri Camara is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker for Greek Superleague side Panetolikos.-Early career:Camara was born in Dakar to a Guinean father and a Senegalese mother...

 Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye
Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye
Abdoulaye Diagne-Faye , more commonly known as Abdoulaye Faye, is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Championship club West Ham United...

 Diomansy Kamara
Diomansy Kamara
Diomansy Mehdi Moustapha Kamara is a professional football striker, currently playing for Eskişehirspor...

 Katlego Mphela
Katlego Mphela
Katlego Mphela is a South African footballer who currently plays for Mamelodi Sundowns in the Premier Soccer League and South Africa....

 Yassine Chikhaoui
Yassine Chikhaoui
Yassine Chikhaoui is a Tunisian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for FC Zürich.-Club career:He was signed by FC Zürich on 5 year contract on 23 May 2007....

 Issam Jemâa Mejdi Traoui
Mejdi Traoui
Mejdi Traoui is a Tunisian footballer. He currently plays for Espérance Sportive de Tunis.-Career:On May 1, 2008, Traoui signed a contract at Red Bull Salzburg until summer 2011. He made two substitute appearances in the Austrian Bundesliga for Red Bull Salzburg during 2008...

 James Chamanga
James Chamanga
James Chamanga is a Zambian football striker who plays for Dalian Shide and Zambia.Chamanga made his international debut on 26 February, 2005 against Botswana and five months later he scored his first international goal in the COSAFA Cup semifinal against South Africa...

 Felix Katongo
Felix Katongo
Felix Katongo is a Zambian international footballer who plays professionally as a midfielder for Libyan team Al-Ittihad.-Club career:...

 Jacob Mulenga
Jacob Mulenga
Jacob Mulenga is a Zambian football striker. He currently plays for FC Utrecht.- External links:**...



Own goals Mohammed Ali El Khider
Mohammed Ali El Khider
Mohammed Ali El Khider is a Sudanese footballer who plays for Al-Merreikh.-Career:The defender is known for his rough slide tackling and he plays at the heart of the defence of El-Merreikh...

 (playing against Cameroon
Cameroon national football team
The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Les Lions Indomptables , is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and is Africa's most successful side in FIFA world cup; having qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times – in 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010– more than any...

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