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CAN - Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2008
Date: 2008-01-20 -
2008-02-10
Host country: Ghana
Venues: Accra, Sekondi, Kumasi, Tamale
Participants: Morocco, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Nigeria, Egypt,
South Africa, Tunisia, Benin, Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Zambia, Angola, Mali,
Cameroon, Namibia
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RSOCCER.COM Ranking -
CAN - Africa Cup of Nations Ghana 2008 Participants
2008-05-15 |
| Not ranked teams: 2008-05-15 |
| FIXTURES - CAN 2008 - Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana |
| RESULTS - CAN 2008 - Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana |
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| Nwankwo Kanu can already boast to be the most decorated player ever to have emerged from African shores. | |
| Ivory Coast's ASEC Abidjan
qualified for the group phase of the African Champions League
for a record ninth time on Sunday after a 1-1 draw at Olympique
Khouribga in Morocco.
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| Holders Etoile Sahel of Tunisia
were bundled out of the African Champions League on Saturday
after losing 1-0 at home to Dynamos of Zimbabwe in Sousse.
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| Camerooon club Cotonsport Garoua reached the group phase of the African Champions League for the first time despite losing 2-1 to Jeunesse Sportive Kayblie in Algeria this weekend. | |
| Joel Santana's final game
with Flamengo before his move to South Africa started as a party
and finished as one of the biggest upsets at the Maracana since
the final game of the 1950 World Cup.
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South Africa's new coach Joel Santana had a nightmare farewell to Flamengo when his side blew a two-goal first-leg lead at home to America and were knocked out of the Libertadores Cup on Wednesday. | |
| A funding crunch could delay
South Africa's plans to have digital broadcasting in place for
the 2010 soccer World Cup, the chief executive of state-run
telecommunications firm Sentech said on Thursday.
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| South Africa's new coach
Joel Santana had a nightmare farewell to Flamengo when his side
blew a two-goal first-leg lead at home to America and were
knocked out of the Libertadores Cup on Wednesday.
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| Zimbabwe's Dynamos could pull out
of their African Champions League tie against holders Etoile
Sahel in Tunisia on Saturday because changes to currency-buying
regulations mean they cannot afford to travel, the state-run
Herald newspaper said.
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| FIFA president Sepp Blatter will
propose stricter rules on switching nationalities later this
month to prevent World Cup finals becoming dominated by
Brazilians.
The head of world soccer's governing body said many
countries, notably in Africa and Europe, had abused the current
rules whereby a player can play for a country other than the one
of their birth if he has lived in a country for at least two
years, or has a parent or grandparent who was born there.
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