Africa 2010: Draw Announced
November 26, 2007 by Jyle Dupuis
Filed under FIFA World Cup
The world finally discovered how the 30 months of football will be played out today on a special broadcast draw. The winners of the groups will continue on to the South Africa World Cup finals.
In a two-hour ceremony, broadcast live from Durban’s International Convention Centre, iconic figures from the soccer world conducted the preliminary draw for the tournament, allocating national teams to their qualifying pools.
The full draw:
Group 1: Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Tanzania, Mauritius
Group 2: Kenya, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Guinea
Group 3: Niger, Uganda, Benin, Angola
Group 4: Nigeria, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone
Group 5: Lesotho, Gabon, Libya, Ghana
Group 6: Gambia, Liberia, Algeria, Senegal
Group 7: Madagascar, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique
Group 8: Mauritania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Morocco
Group 9: Seychelles, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Tunisia
Group 10: Chad, Sudan, Mali, Congo-Brazzaville
Group 11: Swaziland, Zambia, Togo, Eritrea
Group 12: Djibouti, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt
Source: AllAfrica
