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The African Cup of Nations 2008




official site: http://www.ghanacan2008.com/

Previous winners

1957 - Egypt
1959 - Egypt
1962 - Ethiopia
1963 - Ghana
1965 - Ghana
1968 - Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo)
1970 - Sudan
1972 - Congo
1974 - Zaire
1976 - Morocco
1978 - Ghana
1980 - Nigeria
1982 - Ghana
1984 - Cameroon
1986 - Egypt
1988 - Cameroon
1990 - Algeria
1992 - Ivory Coast
1994 - Nigeria
1996 - South Africa
1998 - Egypt
2000 - Cameroon
2002 - Cameroon
2004 - Tunisia
2006 - Egypt

Tournament Records

Most Titles Won :
Egypt - 5: 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006

4 Titles Won
Ghana: 1963, 1965, 1978, 1982
Cameroon: 1984, 1988, 2000, 2002

Most Appearances At The Finals :
EGYPT (21) 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006

Most Appearances In A Final:
GHANA (7) 1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1992

Most Matches Played In The Finals :
EGYPT (73)

Most Wins In The Finals :
Egypt (37)

Most Goals In The Finals :
Egypt (113)

Most Nations Cup Appearances By A Player :
Alain Gouamene - Ivory Coast (7)
1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000

Most Matches Played :
Alain Gouamene of the Ivory Coast played 24 games in seven tournaments

Most Appearances In The Final :
Ali El Fanageeli - Egypt: 1957, 1959, 1962
Cecil Jones Attaquayefio - Ghana: 1965, 1968, 1970
Charles Addo Odametey - Ghana: 1963, 1965, 1968

Most Goals In The Finals :
Laurent Pokou of the Ivory Coast scored 14 in two tournaments - 1968 & 1970

Most Goals Scored In A Single Tournament :
Mulumba Ndaye of Zaire scored 9 goals in 1974

Most Goals Scored By An Individual In One Match :
Laurent Pokou scored five goals as the Ivory Coast beat Ethiopia 6-1 - 1970

Fastest Ever Goal :
Ayman Mansour, EGYPT (23 SECONDS)

Most Goals Scored In One Match :
9, Egypt 6-3 Nigeria, 1963

Most Goals In A Single Tournament :
54, Egypt 1974, under the old eight-team system

Tournament with most goals scored :
Burkina Faso 1998 produced 93 goals in 32 games

Highest Winning Margin : 5
Ivory Coast 6-1 Ethiopia - 1970

Nations Cup Winner As Player And Coach :
Mahmoud El-Gohary of Egypt in 1959 and 1998

Most Nations Cup Wins By A Coach :
Charles Gyamfi of Ghana won in 1963, 1965 & 1982


Full Fixture List

Group A
Jan 20: Ghana v Guinea (Accra).
Jan 21: Namibia v Morocco (Accra).
Jan 24: Guinea v Morocco (Accra); Ghana v Namibia (Accra).
Jan 28: Ghana v Morocco (Accra); Guinea v Namibia (Sekondi).

Group B

Jan 21: Nigeria v Ivory Coast (Sekondi); Mali v Benin (Sekondi).
Jan 25: Ivory Coast v Benin (Sekondi); Nigeria v Mali (Sekondi).
Jan 29: Nigeria v Benin (Sekondi); Ivory Coast v Mali( Accra).

Group C
Jan 22: Egypt v Cameroon (Kumasi); Sudan v Zambia (Kumasi).
Jan 26: Cameroon v Zambia (Kumasi), Egypt v Sudan (Kumasi).
Jan 30: Egypt v Zambia (Kumasi), Cameroon v Sudan (Tamale).

Group D
Jan 23: Tunisia v Senegal (Tamale), South Africa v Angola (Tamale).
Jan 27: Senegal v Angola (Tamale), Tunisia v South Africa (Tamale).
Jan 31: Tunisia v Angola (Tamale), Senegal v South Africa (Kumasi).

Quarter-finals
Feb 3: Group A winners v Group B runners-up (Accra);
Feb 3: Group B winners v Group A runners-up (Sekondi).
Feb 4: Group C winners v Group D runners-up (Kumasi);
Feb 4: Group D winners v Group C runners-up (Tamale).

Semi-finals
Feb 7: Winner quarter-final 1 v Winner quarter-final 4 (Accra);
Feb 7: Winner quarter-final 2 v Winner quarter-final 3 (Kumasi).

Third place play-off
Feb 9 (Accra).

Final
Feb 10 (Accra).

[Mila]

I strongly believe the Ivorians will win the Cup, Drog and Toure brothers will be key players for the victory.

But what I'm going to look forward to is Angola games - to see how good Manucho really is.

[moley]

Ghana and Ivary Coast both got strong teams think it will be between those teams.

[funkdoctorspock]

Anyone find out the results of the Eygpt/Cameroon matchup?

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Damn!!! Very surprised that Egypt won by this margin. [4-2]

I figured Cameroon would be pretty strong in this tournament. Eto'o doing the business as usual, but no one else to support his efforts.

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i wrote egypt off too but i was pleasantly suprised. The thing is we played well too and the goals werent too bad at all. Mohamed Zidan is really good for us. We are 100x better without mido. His personality disrupted the unity on the side, look at us now....

Piss off, im not bais at all

Egypt will kick some ass this tournament and 96.77% of UZ members agree. The rest are liverpool fans

Originally Posted by ReMad

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Egypt vs Cameron

Group C

22 Jan 2008 , Tuesday , 17GMT
Videos During Match
Goals
First Goal for Egypt from a repeated penalty by Hosney Abd Rabboh 13
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Second goal for Egypt by Zidane 16
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Third Goal for Egypt by Zidane with a Wonderful shot 47
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First Goal for Cameron by Etoo 50
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More Replays of the goal
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Fourth Goal for Egypt by Hosney Abd Rabboh 81
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Second Goal for Cameron by Etoo from a PK 93
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Extras
A Chance by Zidane 3 & By A shot by Shawqi 5
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Nice shot by Etoo left to goal 63
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I blame Zidan and Hosni if i fail tomorrow

[tevez32]

I think that the Ivory Coast will win, they look to have a strong squad with balance

[funkdoctorspock]

Mr. Calculator himself, Michael Essien scored a goal against Morocco. Ghana have now qualified for the quarter finals.

ACCRA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Michael Essien scored a goal and set up another as Ghana beat Morocco 2-0 to reach the African Nations Cup quarter-finals as Group A winners on Monday.
Essien opened the scoring in the 26th minute and then set up Sulley Muntari for the second just before halftime as Ghana completed a clean sweep for nine points from three matches.
The tournament hosts will stay in Accra for their quarter-final on Sunday. They will know the identity of their opponents on completion of Group B on Tuesday.
Guinea finished second in the group to also progress while Morocco and Namibia were eliminated.
Muntari set up Essien for the opening goal with a quickly taken free kick that found the midfielder in enough space to score from close range.
The favour was returned when Essien ran at the Morocco defence in the 45th minute and slipped a pass for Muntari to net his second of the tournament.
Muntari hit the crossbar in the second half and Asamoah Gyan had a close-range effort miraculously saved by Morocco's goalkeeper Nadir Lamyaghri.
"We decided before (the match) we were going to attack and attack. We decided to make more room for Essien to take charge and to come forward," Ghana coach Claude Le Roy said.
"My players must be thanked for perfect application of our plans. They played so well and with such dedication," he told reporters.
Essien said it had been one of his best games for the national side. "I want to do my best for my country and to help win the title," he said.
"We now have to look ahead and build a new squad," said Morocco coach Henri Michel after Morocco's elimination in the first round for the second successive Nations Cup. (Editing by Rex Gowar)
Essien steers Ghana to victory over Morocco | Breaking News | Guardian Unlimited Football

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Its a good thing i hate gambling because if i did, the world will be skint.

Egypt just destroted IC 4-1 in a thriller, well imo anyway. Egypt were 1-0 early on through a great goal and they held onto that and defended well. IC coast then commited too many men forwards + their keeped got injured so egypt went on to have a field day.

Egypt now go on to play cameroon. This is somewhat similar to 2006 where egypt played IC first then went on to play them in the finals.

Im so delighted but i feel that 5 years have been knocked off, watch the match if you wanna know why.

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egypt won the final 1-0 and it should have been much much more.

i cant beleive it tbh. Egypt have completely transformed. The side isnt built around a big talented player(s) like most sides. It's built around team work and its clear that although egypt dont have the best players ( imo ivory coast do) but egypt are the best team in africa.

[funkdoctorspock]

Despite the disorgantion which I read about from NT coaches, the play on the pitch throughout the tournament was fantastic.

Fair play to Egypt for winning the tournament. They definitely played as a team and there flowing football was great to watch.

Man, Ivory Coast were a massive disappointment to me. I expected a lot more from them.

Manucho was fantastic and I'm excited to see how he does on his loan stint. For 3.5 million pounds is it? I think United might have found themselves the striker a lot of us have been complaining United should have.