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CAF World Cup 2010 Qualifying: Get Ready for the Hurt Posted: 27 Mar 2009 07:10 AM PDT Obviously every team wants to go to the World Cup. Every time. But if you’re an African team then you definitely want to get to the first World Cup held on Africa soil, more than any other World Cup that’s gone before. Imagine missing out on South Africa 2010? That’s going to hurt. The bad news is that for fifteen of the twenty teams left in CAF qualifying, hurt is on the way. The final phase of qualifying begins this weekend. Five groups of four and only the winners of each group go to the big show. Here are the groups, and the opening round of games: Group A Togo Cameroon Morocco Gabon Togo vs Cameroon (Accra, March 28th, 16:00) Morocco vs Gabon (Casablanca, March 29th, 20:00) Group B Mozambique Nigeria Kenya Tunisia Kenya vs Tunisia (Nairobi, March 28th, 16:00) Mozambique vs Nigeria (Maputo, March 28th, 15:00) Group C Rwanda Algeria Egypt Zambia Rwanda vs Algeria (Kigali, March 28th, 15:30) Egypt vs Zambia (Cairo, March 29th, 19:30) Group D Ghana Benin Sudan Mali Sudan vs Mali (Omdurman, March 28th, 20:00) Ghana vs Benin (Kumasi, March 29th, 17:00) Group E Côte d’Ivoire Malawi Burkina Faso Guinea Burkina Faso vs Guinea (Ouagadougou, March 28th, 18:00) Côte d’Ivoire vs Malawi (Abidjan, March 29th, 17:00) Source: FIFA.com Want to know how serious these games are? Emmanuel Adebayor is in the Togo squad to play Cameroon, despite not actually being fit enough to play. With so much at stake, and many of these groups a lot tighter than they appear (eg you might look at Group D and think “Ghana, easy”, but Mali’s Kanoute, Diarra and Keita would beg to differ) we should see some absolutely classic games in this round of CAF World Cup qualification. The top three from each group also qualify for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, so everyone will have something to play for, right until the final ball is kicked. Whoever eventually makes it to South Africa, these games will be worth watching.

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