lilfreezy:
"The lord has revealed to me that a team with the letters GERIA will make to the AFCON final. Tell your neighbor ALLELUYA"

robosky02:
1957 there were only three participating nations: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. South Africa was originally scheduled to compete, but were disqualified due to the apartheid policies of the government then in power.[1] Since then, the tournament has grown greatly, making it necessary to hold a qualifying tournament. The number of participants in the final tournament reached 16 in 1998 (16 teams were to compete in 1996 but Nigeria withdrew, reducing the field to 15, and the same happened with Togo's withdrawal in 2010), and until 2017, the format had been unchanged, with the sixteen teams being drawn into four groups of four teams each, with the top two teams of each group advancing to a "knock-out" stage. On 20 July 2017, the Africa Cup of Nations was moved from January to June and expanded from 16 to 24 teams.[2]

Egypt is the most successful nation in the cup's history, winning the tournament a record of seven times (including when Egypt was known as the United Arab Republic between 1958 and 1961). Three different trophies have been awarded during the tournament's history, with Ghana and Cameroon winning the first two versions to keep after each of them won a tournament three times. The current trophy was first awarded in 2002 and with Egypt winning it indefinitely after winning their unprecedented third consecutive title in 2010.

As of 2013, the tournament was switched to being held in odd-numbered years so as not to clash with the FIFA World Cup.[3]

Freehuman:


I think this new schedule will clash with Fifa's confederations cup. That's the June and Odd-numbered year schedule.

robosky02:


At least its better

Confederation has only the champion

Not the entire continent

Freehuman:


Yeah. It's for champions from the 6 football confederations. But what if the Champion to represent CAF also qualifies for that year's Afcon. I think January is still better but they shifted it to June to favour European Club football.

TheFacelessMan:
It was the world cup final of 1980.



We met Brazil in the final and we battled them to a 0-0 in the 90th minute.

I got a pass at the center circle and as the ball came to me mid air.... i saw 2 Brazilians closing on me


I controlled the ball and did an elegant, sleek 360 degrees spin.



Focusing solely on the ball, i knew there was absolutely no time to waste. I hit the ball with all my strength....

The ball flew with the force and velocity of a bullet .....flying through the air like a comet...90yards.

The whole stadium had fallen silent in those final seconds of the match; they all drew in their breath in unison....

The keeper dove like Superman...he knew it had to be the save of his life, his entire career but....

The ball escaped his outstretched fingers....passed through the goalposts and kissed the net pushing it backwards.. .



GOLLLLLLL in Portuguese

Golazooooooo in Spanish

GOALLLLLL

I ran off to the side of our supporters club waiting for my teammates to crash on me in celebrations.

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I stretched my arms like a Messiah, proud of myself..that's when i saw our fans crying....


I had scored an OWN goal

TheFacelessMan:
Let me book here