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Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by shadrach77: 2:27am On Feb 20, 2013
i stumbled upon the African World cup qualifying format. Here is it below

2014 World Cup qualifying

Five African nations will qualfy for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
There will be three rounds of qualifying.
The first round sees 24 teams trying to make it into the second round of competition, where there will be ten groups of four teams.
In the third round, the ten group winners play off over two legs to determine who will travel to Brazil.
The first legs will be played between 11-15 October 2013, while the second and decisive legs will take place on 15-19 November 2013.


it doesn't sound right to me. The wrong teams might end up qualifying for the world cup. I think the first two to top the second round group should be grouped into five groups of four each and the winner of each group goes to the world cup. This i feel would be more intensive and would bring out the best team in the continent other than the play off thing.

What are your thoughts ?
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Nobody: 2:29am On Feb 20, 2013
I think the current format is fair enough. it will prevent player burnout in an already congested international calendar.
Who knows, the top ranked African teams will be paired with the lower ranked ones.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by MadCow1: 9:22am On Feb 20, 2013
ok

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Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Nobody: 9:23am On Feb 20, 2013
yes it is right.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by adesammy1(m): 9:24am On Feb 20, 2013
Super Eagles all the way
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by surveycash(m): 9:26am On Feb 20, 2013

Hope our Eagles make..That's all that matter..
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Abujafood: 9:26am On Feb 20, 2013
Regardless of the playing format, I'm confident that those who deserve to qualify should qualify!
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Toyboyz: 9:27am On Feb 20, 2013
If dey like make dem do 5 groups wetin i no b sey Super Eagles must qualify.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Kaxmytex(m): 9:29am On Feb 20, 2013
Make dem do am anyhw dem lyk..
Wot i knw iz dat my super eaglez go qualify and dem go lift d world cup trophy 4 d first tym...

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Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by executinal(m): 9:29am On Feb 20, 2013
Top team vs lower ranked team
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Nobody: 9:30am On Feb 20, 2013
Anyhow wey dem won do am, my own bi say make superb eagles qualify, and we qualify na we go carry am. Mark my words, I'm TB Joshua's last born. ;DAnyhow wey dem won do am, my own bi say make superb eagles qualify, and we qualify na we go carry am. Mark my words, I'm TB Joshua's last born.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by solid3(m): 9:30am On Feb 20, 2013
oked. cool
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Nobody: 9:32am On Feb 20, 2013
It's fair. But what does my commenting position look like? Is it 4th or ?
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Kaxmytex(m): 9:36am On Feb 20, 2013
RedBenson: It's fair. But what does my commenting position look like? Is it 4th or ?
dnt tell me say u no sabi 1,2,3....
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Andrew3(m): 9:36am On Feb 20, 2013
didadavid:

mods. Please hide his God-forsaken post.

He is a futuous oaf.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Igwe9(m): 9:38am On Feb 20, 2013
Hello, clarify further. you can use a label like team/country A,B,C.... to analyse further.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Nobody: 9:39am On Feb 20, 2013
I dont care how its done,i just dont wanna see teams like Benin Republic,Liberia,Mauritania,South Sudan,Burundi,Swaziland,Namibia repping Africa at the world cup.Imagine a Spain vs Mauritania match,Torres gan go score hat trick.

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Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by ritux: 9:39am On Feb 20, 2013
The present format is better than what the op is suggesting.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Monjerk: 9:43am On Feb 20, 2013
It's ok as long as no partiality in pairing.
RedBenson: It's fair. But what does my commenting position look like? Is it 4th or ?
. Sorry u are no. 4th + 10th add it urself, anyway u have tried send me ur account no. Let me reward u.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by pendusky(m): 9:52am On Feb 20, 2013
am sure soon fifa will make last four standing teams in each contiment Nation cup to qualify for world cup... Wldnt that be nice?
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by born2boink(m): 10:12am On Feb 20, 2013
Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal have players scatter over the world, good coaches can make them proud, Egypt are technically sound to qualify, the fifth team is none of my business
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by hollandis(f): 10:14am On Feb 20, 2013
CAF and their ojoro.I thought itwas supposed to be the winners of the nations cup and three runners up.Now because cameroon is not there every1 dey do ojoro uslesss bastrd hayatou
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by buoye1(m): 10:34am On Feb 20, 2013
Hope naija ll qualify 4 d competition!!
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by safarigirl(f): 10:35am On Feb 20, 2013
Why can't the team that won 2013 AFCON get automatic qualification? Then the other teams can slug it out for the remaining 4 spots? *awoof tins*

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Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by RoyalRoy(m): 10:35am On Feb 20, 2013
hollandis: CAF and their ojoro.I thought itwas supposed to be the winners of the nations cup and three runners up.Now because cameroon is not there every1 dey do ojoro uslesss bastrd hayatou
.
Not so my dear! That happens only in the age group categories!
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by akintun: 10:36am On Feb 20, 2013
CAF and their ojoro.I thought itwas supposed to be the winners of the nations cup and three runners up.Now because cameroon is not there every1 dey do ojoro uslesss bastrd hayatou
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Get ur facts right b4 posting.
Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by manibuds(m): 10:57am On Feb 20, 2013
i agree with op that the present qualifying format may produce weak ambassadors but what he is suggesting will still produce the same result.a tough qualifying format should at least toughen up our reps.all the south american qualifiers made it to the second round in south africa why?because they have a 10 team league style qualifying format.imagine if africa adopts a 10 or 12 team league style qualifying format.imagine nigeria playing ghana,cote d'ivoire,zambia,mali,egypt,algeria,morocco,b faso,tunisia,bafana,cameroon just to qualify for a world cup,by the time super eagles get to the world cup,their concentration,quality of bench,quality of coaching crew,patrotism and unity of team would have passed thru fire and ready to spank teams like greece and north korea even with 9 men.africa seems to have reached the glass ceiling in the world cup because the mental toughness a tough qualifying process will give them is just not there,gyan could not tuck in a penalty,senegal just could not believe they should beat turkey,nigeria lost to 10-man italy even when we were one goal up.iron sharpeneth iron.the teams that participate in this league style format will make more money because every match is a sell out,then with 5 spots up for grabs every match will be important till the very last second of the last match.we all know that getting africans to do what is good for africa has never been easy

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Re: Africa World Cup Qualifying Format: Is It Right? by Andersonken(m): 11:06am On Feb 20, 2013
I thought carrying the nations cup automatically qualifies us to the world cup.

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