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2010 African Cup of Nations Draw: Tunisia in Group D

By: Rami | November 20th, 2009 | 7 Comments »

2010 can groupe1So while the fallout from our World Cup exit continues back home, the African Cup of Nations draw was completed in Luanda today and our team is set to face Zambia, Gabon, and Cameroon (in that order). Our matches will be based in Lubango where a new stadium with a 25,000 capacity has been built just for the occasion.

I watched the draw live and was hoping to avoid Cote d’Ivoire and Angola so that our friendlies against them in the lead up to the tournament (Dec. 29th and Jan. 3rd) would not get canceled. It wouldn’t have been the end of the world if it happened but I think the FTF has enough issues to deal with at the moment and adding another task to their plate might have yielded some poor results. Luckily when all was said and done, we were the last team left and automatically were placed in group D.

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