World Cup 2010 Blog: “Africa Cup of Nations 2010 Final: Egypt vs Ghana, Pick Your Winner.” plus 1 more

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Africa Cup of Nations 2010 Final: Egypt vs Ghana, Pick Your Winner. Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:40 PM PST No shortage of drama in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals was there? Not to mention red cards. But that’s all in the past. Time to focus on the future. There’s the third place playoff between Nigeria and Algeria on Saturday, but the big event is Sunday. Ghana vs Egypt in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations final. I’m not going to type up a detailed preview here. To read someone who knows – and I mean really knows – about these two teams, visit Gary at the Ghana blog and Tamim at the Egypt blog. Those guys know their business. My only question: Who do you think will win? It’s the youth of Ghana (who are without Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari or Stephen Appiah, but have young hotshots like Dede Ayew and Kwadwo Asamoah) or the experience and teamwork of Egypt, who may not be going to the World Cup, but are looking to make it three Africa Cup of Nations wins in a row. The Africa Cup of Nations final is Sunday, January 31st, with kickoff at 5pm in Luanda. That’s also 5pm CET, 4pm in the UK, 11am US Eastern time and 8am US Pacific time. We’ll be LiveBlogging the game here on WorldCupBlog. If you’re in the UK, the game is live on BBC Two. If you’re in the USA, then you can watch online – very legally – with MyAfricanFootball.com. Click below for details. If you have the info on how to watch elsewhere, please share below in the comments.

German World Cup Winners Training Hard For Something That Will Happen in 2010 Posted: 29 Jan 2010 08:10 AM PST This looks like viral marketing done right. It’s “The Return of the Legends”, with great German players of the past “secretly” filmed training hard, preparing for some sort of return. I see 1954 World Cup winner Horst Eckel, 1974 World Cup winning goalkeeper Sepp Maier, and multiple members of the 1990 World Cup winning squad. I’m still scared of Andi Brehme’s left foot. The video looks to be a promotional for the equally mysterious Meister vs Meister website, but I like to think – as Luke from Bayern Offside suggested when he emailed this to me – that these guys are Jogi Löw’s Plan B for the World Cup 2010 campaign.

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