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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Best XI and Recap

I enjoyed my first time watching this tournament and with it finally over to take a look back and give some remarks on the tournament as a whole. The obvious sour points to this tournament was the Togo team shooting

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Ghana Edges Angola And Algeria Advances In Thriller

The first two semifinalists were decided today as Ghana and Algeria advanced. In the first quarterfinal, Ghana defeated Angola 1-0. The goal came in the 16th minute when Kwadwo Asamoah set up Asamoah Gyan who got behind Angola’s captain Kali.

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Quarterfinals Preview and Predictions

The quarterfinals are starting up and the tournament should start getting exciting. A lot of the established powers have disappointed while Egypt and Angola have been the most entertaining teams in the tournament. The one Cinderella story left in the

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The Weekend Watch List: Milan Derby and US Friendly

This is something that I probably will do from now on to let you know the highlights of the upcoming weekend for me. It is FA Cup weekend in England and there are some intriguing matches but this weekend I’m

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Day 9

Group A finished today and it was pretty disappointing. Algeria and Angola both advanced as they played for a 0-0 draw. It was an okay game until about the 60th minute when it was clear both teams decided that they

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Day 5

The Africa Cup Of Nations continued as Algeria got their first win beating Mali 1-0. It is actually the first win by any of the teams from Africa that have qualified for the World Cup. In the other Group A

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My Thoughts On the Angola-Mali Game

I’ll start off first with a Togo update as it has become very unclear on what is going on with their participation. It is reported they have left the country but now it is said they want to return at

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Group A Preview and Predictions

The Africa Cup of Nations start next week, so I decided I would start with some previews as I am hoping to catch a decent amount of these games. I’ll be going through each groups this week going through each

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