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2023 Africa Cup Of Nations Qualification Group A
Group A of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the twelve groups that decided the teams which qualified for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consisted of four teams: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau national football team, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ( pt, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe), is a Portuguese-speaking i ... (winners of the preliminary round). The teams played against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format between 9 June 2022 and 11 September 2023. Nigeria and Guinea-Bissau, the group winners and runners-up respectively, qualified for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. Standings Matches ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Goalscorers References {{2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Africa Cup Of Nations Qualification
The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches will be organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to decide the participating teams of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, the 34th edition of the international men's football championship of Africa. A total of 24 teams will qualify to play in the final tournament, including Ivory Coast, who qualify automatically as hosts. Entrants All 54 CAF member associations entered to the competition. The seeding was based on the FIFA World Ranking from 23 December 2021 with teams ranked 1st to 42nd received a bye to the qualifying group stage, while the teams ranked 43rd to 54th had to participate in the preliminary round. The preliminary round draw took place on 21 January 2022, 16:30 WAT (UTC+1), in Douala, Cameroon. Schedule The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows. Preliminary round The twelve lowest-ranked teams were drawn into six ties to be played in home-and-away two-legged format. The six winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinho Gano
Zinho Gano (born 13 October 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for SV Zulte Waregem. Born in Belgium, he plays for the Guinea-Bissau national team. Early life Gano was born in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium to a Bissau-Guinean father and a Belgian Flemish mother. Club career Gano is a youth exponent from Brugge. During the 2013–14 season, he scored six goals out of 22 league games with Belgian Second Division side Lommel United, on loan from Brugge. Then he played on loan for Mouscron in the Belgian Pro League. He made his top division debut at 27 July 2014 against Anderlecht. On 2 July 2018 he joined Genk from fellow Pro League side Oostende for a value of £1.62 million. On 2 September 2019, he joined Antwerp on a season-long loan with an option to buy. International career Gano made his senior debut for Guinea-Bissau on 23 March 2022, starting in a 3–0 friendly win over Equatorial Guinea. Honours Genk *Belgian First Division A The Belgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Dennis
Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis (born 15 November 1997) is a Nigerian professional association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), striker for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Nigeria national football team, Nigeria national team. Club career Early career Dennis began his career at Kwara Football Academy Ilorin, located in Kwara State, Nigeria. Zorya Luhansk In March 2016, Dennis signed with Ukrainian Premier League club FC Zorya Luhansk, Zorya Luhansk. He made his debut in a game against FC Olimpik Donetsk, Olimpik Donetsk on 24 July 2016, where he scored the opener in a 3–0 victory. Dennis started the season on the bench mostly before being given his UEFA Europa League debut to Feyenoord on 3 November, which ended 1–1. After impressing against Feyenoord, he also played in the Ukrainian side's other group stage games, to Fenerbahçe S.K. (football), Fenerbahçe and Manchester United F.C., Manchester United. Zorya lost 2–0 in both m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ademola Lookman
Ademola Lookman Olajade Alade Aylola Lookman (born 20 October 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for club Atalanta and the Nigeria national team. Lookman made his senior debut in 2015, playing as a forward for Charlton Athletic of the Championship, and in January 2017 signed for Everton, who used him mainly as a winger. He has represented England from under-19 to under-21 levels. In 2022, Lookman received clearance from FIFA to represent Nigeria. Early life Lookman was born in Wandsworth, South West London to Nigerian parents. He attended St Thomas the Apostle College in Peckham where he achieved three A*s and five As at GCSE. Club career Charlton Athletic file:Ademola Lookman, Charlton (cropped).jpg, upLookman playing for Charlton Athletic in 2016 Lookman joined Charlton Athletic's academy in 2014 after signing from Waterloo, a youth football club based in the London Borough of Lambeth. His goalscoring record for Charlton's U18 and U21 teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Etebo
Oghenekaro Peter Etebo (born 9 November 1995) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Aris Thessaloniki, on loan from Stoke City, and the Nigeria national team. Etebo started out at Warri Wolves where he spent three years before moving into European football with Portuguese side Feirense. He helped the side gain promotion to the Primeira Liga and established themselves as a top-flight club. Etebo had a six-month loan spell at Spanish side Las Palmas in the 2017–18 season. Etebo joined English side Stoke City in June 2018 for a fee of £6.35 million. Club career Warri Wolves Etebo joined Warri Wolves in 2012, Etebo was announced as a member of the senior squad for the 2013 Nigeria Premier League season. However, due to his school studies and a delayed start to the league season, he only got to make his professional debut on 14 April 2013, announcing himself to Nigerian fans by scoring the first hat-trick of the season. With his goals in the 4th, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terem Moffi
Teremas "Terem" Igobor Moffi (born 25 May 1999) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Nice and the Nigeria national team. Club career Moffi left Nigeria and moved to England to join the Buckswood Football Academy at Hastings, East Sussex at the age of 17, and thereafter moved to Lithuania with Kauno Žalgiris. He eventually joined Riteriai, but had visa issues that delayed his debut. Moffi eventually scored 20 goals in 29 leagues games for Riteriai, and transferred to Belgian club Kortrijk in January 2020. On 1 October 2020, Moffi joined Ligue 1 side Lorient on a permanent deal. On 31 January 2023, he signed for Nice on loan until the end of the season, with an obligation-to-buy for €30 million and a 15% sell-on clause in favor of Lorient. In the 2023–24 season, he became his club's top scorer with 11 goals. International career On 14 May 2021, Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr included Moffi in his 31-man list for friendlies in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses Simon
Moses Daddy-Ajala Simon (born 12 July 1995) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for Ligue 1 club Nantes and the Nigeria national team. Club career Early career Born in Jos, his father served in the Nigeria Army before his retirement. Simon is a product of the famed GBS Academy, the same football academy in Nigeria that produced the likes of Ahmed Musa. He was linked with Nigerian Premier League club Kaduna United, as many professional clubs around the world were also eager to sign him. On 10 May 2013, it was announced that Simon had signed a pre-contractual agreement with Dutch club Ajax to join them in pre-season training, having previously been linked with Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. He made his first appearance for Ajax on 13 July 2013 in pre-season friendly match against De Graafschap, coming on as a substitute player and scoring the third and final goal in the 64th minute of the match, in a 3–0 away win. He made a further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegalese Football Federation
The Senegalese Football Federation (french: Fédération Sénégalaise de Football; FSF) is the governing body of football in Senegal. It is based in the capital of Senegal, Dakar, and was founded in 1960. The FSF aided in the development of football in Senegal, specifically for its professional and amateur leagues, youth and women's football and academies. Currently the FSF oversees the professional leagues, run by the ''Ligue Sénégalaise de Football Professionnel'' (LSFP) and fully organises the national teams, youth, women's and amateur football and all football administration. History Pre-2000s A former colony of France, football was introduced to Senegal by French soldiers who played to remain fit and healthy.Gerard Akindes, “What Model for football club management in Africa?” in ''Africa's Elite Football: tructure, Politics and Everyday Challenges,'' ed. Chuka Onwumechili. (London: Routledge, 2020), 179. Soon after, football spread and became an important aspect of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalbert Diouf
Adalbert is a German given name which means "noble bright" or "noble shining", derived from the words ''adal'' (meaning noble) and ''berht'' (shining or bright). Alternative spellings include Adelbart, Adelbert and Adalberto. Derivative names include Albert and Elbert. Because St Adalbert of Prague (†997), early mediaeval missionary who became Czech, Polish and Hungarian patron saint, at his confirmation changed his name from native Vojtěch to Adalbert, this Germanic name has been artificially assigned to Slavonic Vojtěch/Wojciech ("he who is happy in battle") and via the same process have been the names Vojtěch and Adalbert connected with Hungarian name Béla (maybe "inner part") – so, in Central European settings these three names are taken as the equivalents, although they haven't any linguistic connection to each other. Given name * Adalbert (mystic) (8th century) * Adalbert Begas (1836–1888), German painter * Adalbert Czerny (1863–1941), Austrian pediatrician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agadir
Agadir ( ar, أݣادير, ʾagādīr; shi, ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ) is a major city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean, and south of Casablanca. Agadir is the capital of the Agadir Ida-U-Tanan Prefecture and of the Souss-Massa economic region. The majority of its inhabitants speak Berber, one of Morocco's two official languages. Agadir is one of the major urban centres of Morocco. The municipality of Agadir recorded a population of 924,000 in the 2014 Moroccan census. According to the 2004 census, there were 346,106 inhabitants in that yearGeneral Census of the population and habitat 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrar Stadium
Adrar Stadium (Adrar for "''mountain''" in Berber) (Berber: ⴰⴱⴰⵔⴰⵣ ⵏ ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ, Arabic: ملعب أدرار) is a multi-use stadium in Agadir, Morocco, that was inaugurated in 2013. It is used mostly for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ... matches. The stadium has a capacity of 45,480 seat. It was supposed to hold 2010 FIFA World Cup games if Morocco had been chosen to be the host country. The stadium is home to Association football club Hassania Agadir, replacing their old venue Stade Al Inbiaâte. It has hosted four matches of the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup in December 2013 and was one of the stadiums to be used for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations but did not host the cup because of Morocco's cancelled hosting due to fears of the Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
