The 2014 world cup its 4 months away
and most teams knows who would or
wont make the 23 man squad.
Everytime there is an african team
potentially able to win a world cup,
they are grouped at the group of death
i.e nigeria in 1994, ghana in 2006,
ivory coast in 2010 and once again
Ghana in 2014. This is my prediction
of the african team potential
performance at the 2014 wc, this
prediction is based on current team
selection and capability, note nothing
its guaranteed.
1. Algeria — This team was an african
powerhouse in the late 80`s they were
impressive at the 1982 world cup and
could had qualied if not for the
infamous germany performance,
however after that performance they
have been poor at world cup and
hasnt won a wc match in 24 years, at
the last world cup they had players to
do well but the coach choosed an ultra
defensive tactics which affected them
and lost 2 games then draw 1, this
year although they have improved and
have some good talents like ziani,
bentalab and more i dont see them
getting past the group stage i predict
another boring defensive performance,
would be lucky to even win a game.
2. Cameroun — A country that have
the best ever african player "etoo"
should never be underated but you
have to realize that cameroun football
has been on the decline for the past
few years due to corrupt fa and they
have performed pretty poorly at all
their world cups since 1990. At the last
world cup cameroun were once again
poor and lost all 3 games, this year
there are some rising talents like
vincent aboubakar, barcelona
doungou, tunisia based mukanji and
old heads like webo, etoo and song,
however once again if you analyse
cameroun performance in the last year
or so i dont think they are a team to be
feared. Another african team i dont
think would qualify from group
3;Nigeria — current African champion
has enjoyed great reign of form at the
past year, from not qualifying to
nations cup in a year to winning it.
However that is nations cup, but this is
world cup and we should realize that
nigeria had not won a world cup game
in 16 years, but the hope its that this is
a more improved nigerian team but the
coach its still on the euphoria of
winning the nations cup which has
made him not improve the team. The
nigerian team with its best selected
players and most inform players
should easily qualify past that group
unfortunately football dont work that
way as the coach has set his mind on
selecting the nations cup squad and
not improving the team, i believe
argentina would win the group but
bosnia have more globally proven
players and top marksman than
nigeria like man city dzeko, roma
pjanic, stuggart ibisevic, lazio lucic
and stoke begovic. All top class
players, also realize that the only non
africa team nigeria has beaten in the
past 3 years are tahiti and venezuela
and has either lost or drawn against
the rest of the decent team they
played. Overall it depends on keshi
selection, if we selects his best then
nigeria would easily qualify, while if he
selects his current then bosnia have
the edge. As much as i hope and want
my country to qualify i think they might
not. The goal would be to win a game
and break that youk, then qualify past
group stage.
4:Ivory coast — when you have the most
complete midfilder in the world, africa
best midfilde (yaya) and africa and
seria A best winger (gervinho) then
you are a top team. This ivory coast
has been very unfortunate with their
groups at past world cup but this time
they have a relatively strong but
winnable group, although their defense
is weak i think their offense would still
prevail except injuries top players. No
disrespect to greece, japan or
colombia but i think the ivorians would
not only qualify but do well at world
cup.
5:Ghana — Africa most consistent
performer at world cup, despite being
at only 2 previous world cup, they
have won 5 games at wc more than
any african team. Once again they are
drawn at the group of death, however
we should realize that this same team
ended the great hyped and 2nd fifa
ranked czech repulblic in 2006
currently they have the best midfield in
africa and most of their top players
are playing and performing well at big
clubs i.e asamoah, essien, boateng,
ayew, muntari, this team 2nd batch of
midfield could easily start at most
african first 11 i.e Wakasso, Atsu,
badu, the way they confortably beat a
strong Egyptian team was
masterclass. The sad part of them its
playing against 2 of world cup best
team Portugal and Germany
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