Hear me on this...........

This will be one great Nations Cup......I like all of them...but I have to say who I think will win looking at the seeds and their path to the final.....and I can't only come up with one team...so I will give U two team.......

1. Ivory Coast.....

2. Senegal....



And who I would really like for them to win....?

The hosts Ghana. This will be long shot...but U know prayers do count...

Now, who do U think has a chance and who do U think will make your day if they win?

I'm going for the Ivory Coast, but that could all change.

Sentiments of course the Super-Egos...but in reality Ivory Coast-Egypt seem like a team that are very together Ghana without Appiah would struggle but would be in the mix because of home support

Go Ghana

Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Morroco and Egypt - one of those teams will win it.

Nigeria will win it i think.

Let's all be real. Nigeria should win this hands down BUT.... will be undone by their usual infighting, on field cliquing, and throwing the game plan out of the window. It just amazes me how one of the not the most talented teams in Africa but the world normally turns on itself. I will not go into another diatribe on the Nigerian national team, but I think the citizens of Nigeria should go on television to ask these guys to play for the country instead of themselves.

Still I would say the IC, but with Drogba's fitness remains a question and if he is fit he will be tightly marked. Their taking home the tourney is based on Big Perm's performance

Then we have Morrocco. Like it or not these guys are good and have a great tight passing game and they played France pretty tight. If they continue to play their game these guys have a good chance of bringing home the glory as well. This is my pick because of their team play.

Senegal has the most prolific and balance strike force in the league but they look like Tottenham. Yep they may win, but at what cost? 4-3 score lines are not going to take home the Kings of Africa title. You need a solid defense.

Ghana will put up a great fight but I don't see them taking it home because of the pressure from the home crowd. I do see them making it to the semis.

What about Cameroon? I think they will step up and surprise people as the sleeping Giant has been looking good and his name is Eto'o.....

I wish I had a way to watch this ANC!!!!

methinks cameroon will nyal some curried eagle at some point....

Group A
Ghana, Namibia, Guinea, Morocco


This group should be straight forward. Ghana have been on a good run lately, and Morocco are a good quality team. I saw Morocco play Senegal , and they totally outclassed them. The match was in Paris,and was live on Eurosport. They beat them 3-0. I have not seen Guinea play for quite a while, so I have no idea what there current form is like. I have also never seen Namibia play either.


All eyes will be on Essien. Appaih will not be there apparently.


Group B
Nigeria, Benin, Mali, Ivory Coast

I am totally backing my country Nigeria to go through. However it will not be as simple as some people think. Some people I have spoken to already think that Nigeria and Ivory Coast will breeze through this group, I think m=Mali will prove to be a challenge.

A few years ago I would of brushed aside Mali , however ever since they hosted the African Nations Cup a few years back they have started to gain momentum, and are slowly become a force. They have one of the best Strkers in Europe Freddie Kanoute upfront, and lets not forget, Diarra (Real Madrid), and Sissoko (Liverpool).


Nigeria have a score to settle with Ivory Coast as they were the same team who knocked us out last time in the semi-final stage, in Egypt. Right now they are arguably the most complete African team. Drogba is still not match fit, however they still have the likes of Kalou, and Kone. They are also on of the few African teams who have a above average defence. According to the tournament schedule Nigeria play them first. I am looking forward to this.


Nigeria have to ability to win this group, however it depends WHICH NIGERIA SHOW UP?. Lately they have been unpredictable. I went to see them play Ghana, and it appalled me the way they played. They lacked seriousness. Only 2 players were making an effort. One thing I noticed in that game was that Nigeria were scared to take chances. Whilst Ghana were taking every half chance, and succeeding, Nigeria were continually trying to create the perfect setup, and failed.

Nigeria can't afford to be so picky. one thing which many African teams have in common, is that they do not have the best Goalkeepers, so Nigeria should really take every chance given, instead of holding up the ball for so dame long.

I believe Obi Mikael, and Peter Odemwengie, and John Utaka will be key players.



I have never seen Benin play.

Group C
Egypt, Sudan, Zambia, Cameroon


Cameroon, will be the dark horses in my opinion,. People seem to have sidetracked them (maybe because of the world cup upset).

I have not seen them play since they played Egypt in the World Cup qualifiers.


Egypt should qualify along with Cameroon, but for some reason I can't see them making great headwaves. Of all the Northern African teams Morocco seem the strongest.


I have never seen Zambia or Sudan play.


Group D
Tunisia, Angola, South Africa, Senegal

In all honesty anyone can qualify from this group. Its wide open.


Tunisia: in the pst have proven to be quite strong . However that was mainly due to their Brazilian Striker, however I can't knock them as they seem reasonably organised.


Angola: were lucky to get into the World Cup. FIFA changed the goal difference rule 9thats the only reason why they went through). I will give them credit though, they fought hard in the world cup, plus it seems they have slowly building off the momentum from the world cup. For example in the lead up to the NATIONS cup they defeated Ivory Coast 2-1 in November.



Senegal: Though they got outclassed by Morocco, they have too much quality, espacially going forward. They are capable of going far in this tournament.


South Africa: It would not suprise me if they went out in the first round. Whoever is in charge of the SA Football Federation needs to be sacked. They have been disappointing for a while.

The potential is there but they need the right coach. I can't remember which tournament it was but, they brought in some idiot coach called Demetri (I may have spelt his name wrong), and he totally messed up the team.

He left out key European based players, focusing mainly n the home-based players, and then organised only 1 pre tournament warm up match. How the hell is that efficient preparation for a team who have never played together in there lives.


I am really not sure how they will figure.


Apparently they have again dropped there best Striker from the squad
BBC SPORT | Football | African | SA drop McCarthy for Nations Cup

My money is on Nigeria.

but i support the Ivory Coast

What a disappointment

Nigeria looked SHIT, there is no other word I could think of to describ that shoddy performance.

They played like a buch of stangers who really and truluy did not give dam.

If thats how we plan to approach every game, then we deserve to go out.

Where do I start.


1. How the hell did they let Kallou score. I could taken the ball off him blind folded.

2. There was no creativity AT ALL from the midfield.

3. The strikers ****ed up big time. Martins was playing like a winger, and yakubu seemed allergic to the inside box. Everytime he got the ball he hardly did anything.

We kept on booting the ball up to our strikers hoping they would win one challeneg against the Ivorian defence.

What pisses me off even more is that the Ivorian keeper is crap, and we failed to take adavanatge of it.

Even when we went down 1-0 westill played like we weren't serious. We just dragged our feet, for the remaineder of the match.

If Mali win tonight it will become even harder for us to qualify.



WHAT A ****ING DISAPPOINTMENT