International Football - Chelsea team-mates to clash in Africa
Reuters - Fri, 20 Nov 20:10:00 2009
Ivory Coast and Ghana will meet at the African Nations Cup in Angola with Chelsea striker Didier Drogba facing his club mate midfielder Michael Essien.
The in-form African teams were pooled together in Group B when the draw for the Jan. 10-31 tournament was made on Friday.
Both sides are favourites to advance from the group stage but will face tough competition from Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor's Togo side and Burkina Faso.
Hosts Angola will open the tournament against Mali and will also face Malawi and Algeria in Group A.
"None of the games are going to be easy," said Angola coach Manuel Jose. "But our group is a balanced one and that has given us hope of qualifying to the final stage of the tournament."
Holders Egypt face Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin in Group C while Cameroon, Gabon , Zambia and Tunisia are in Group D.
The finals are made up of 16 teams with the top two in each group reaching the quarter-finals.
Games will be played in the capital Luanda and provinces of Cabinda, Benguela and Lubango.
GROUP A
Angola
Mali
Malawi
Algeria
GROUP B
Ivory Coast
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Togo
GROUP C
Egypt
Nigeria
Mozambique
Benin
GROUP D
Cameroon
Gabon
Zambia
Tunisia
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1 2 3 viva l'Algerie.
in group A
Mali is better than us in terms of individuals, Angola is the host nation when Malawi is not low. it will be difficult to qualify for the second round but we will nchalah.
dans le groupe A
le mali est meilleure que nous au niveau des individualites, angola est le pays organisateur quand le malawi n'est pas faible. il sera difficile de se qualifier au deuxieme tour mais nchalah on en va.
nigeria first egypt second
Ivory Coast will win it.
What does this f*cking Gabon want?????
Allez les Lions Indomptables
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