The great escape! So, finally, we know the African teams going to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa: Ghana, Cote d'lvoire, the hosts South Africa, Cameroon, Algeria, and Nigeria. And what a great escape it turned out to be for Cameroon, Nigeria and Algeria! Tom Mbakwe reports.

New African › Nbr. 2009, January 2009

Author: Mbakwe, Tom

Position:: African Football

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The great escape! So, finally, we know the African teams going to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa: Ghana, Cote d'lvoire, the hosts South Africa, Cameroon, Algeria, and Nigeria. And what a great escape it turned out to be for Cameroon, Nigeria and Algeria! Tom Mbakwe reports.

THE CELEBRATIONS IN LAGOS AND Algiers were spectacular, mainly because, for Nigeria most of their fans had given up on World Cup qualification, and for Algeria it was more a war than a football game against their arch-rivals Egypt, who had snatched a dramatic late goal in Cairo to take the encounter into the playoff on 18 November...

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