Draw for the African Cup of Nations

Drawn African Cup of Nations 2012, football teams, Tunisia and Morocco in the face of Arab difficult and directly in the third set in the first round of the tournament hosted by Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, jointly organized early next year.

Although it is difficult confrontations between the two teams throughout history, look Frsthma good to qualify together for the second round (quarter) due to Oukuahma in a relatively easy with them side Gabon, who is running the tournament at home, but it does not have the enormous potential for each of the elected Tunisian and Moroccan.

It also includes the same group, the Niger team who is participating in the tournament for the first time in its history.

The Libyan national team have been drawn in the face of the other State where the host and resulted in the draw for the first occurrence in the group with teams of Equatorial Guinea, Senegal and Zambia.

The team meets with Libyan Equatorial Guinea, owner of the land in the opening game of the tournament and planned city of Bata on January 21 a second / next January.

The Sudanese team came second in the group with the Ivorian team was the strongest with his Ghanaian counterpart to reach the final and compete for the title. The group also includes teams of Burkina Faso and Angola.

Ago, while the fourth group of Arab national teams, where he was headed by Ghana, and runners, and compete with teams of Botswana, Guinea and Mali.

And the draw held today, the capital city of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in the absence of a large number of the leading football powers in the continent where the qualifying yielded several surprises overthrew the giants of the continent.

The absence of adult

The teams failed to Egypt, champions in the last three sessions, Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa in transit to the finals to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in early next year.

It occupies the five teams of the top ten of the African teams in the rankings of football teams of the International Federation of the game (FIFA) ten days ago.

And occupies the Egyptian team a 29 world and second in Africa, followed by teams of Algeria (the fourth Africa) and Nigeria (VI Africa), Cameroon (vii Africa) and South Africa (VIII Africa) also claimed the top five combined title in 15 times of the 27 tournament prior to the African Cup of Nations .

Three teams participating for the first time

And witness the finals the next post teams of Equatorial Guinea, Niger and Botswana in the tournament for the first time in their history note that the first part as one of the two organizations, while the second part, after his difficult issue in the playoffs, which included teams with Egypt and South Africa and Sierra Leone.

Botswana team will also participate for the first time in the finals after qualifying through the well-deserved by occupying first place in his group, which included teams with Tunisia, Malawi, Togo and Chad.

Ballot

And put teams of Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire in the pot before the draw for the first day where the authors develop the land at the head of the two groups the first and third respectively, while the other two teams were selected at the top of the other two groups according to the classified.

In the pot the second, put leaves lots bearing the names of the teams of the second level, namely Angola, Tunisia, Zambia and Guinea, while the inclusion of the pot third teams, Mali, Senegal, Morocco, Burkina Faso, and has teams from Sudan, Libya, Botswana, Niger, the vessel of the fourth according to the classification itself.

And supervised the drawing of lots Moroccan Hicham Urban secretary-general of the African Union for the game (K) to be the first time he takes the job after replacing the Egyptian Mustafa Fahmi, who has held this position for many years.

The first group matches will be held in the city of Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where the opening match of the tournament on January 21 a second / next January, while the second group matches will be held in the capital Malabo that the games will be the third group the Gabonese capital Libreville and Group D match Francivil city of Gabon. Libreville hosts the final of the tournament in the February 12, 2012.