Naturally Ghana & Ivory coast are among the favourites for the tournament but as we saw last year the underdogs often rise to the challenge in tournaments like these. A lot of attention will be on the defending champions Zambia to see how the deal with the pressure of being the holders.
By virtue of the fact they are the tournament hosts South Africa will be expected to put in a good performance and the bafana bafana always share the burden of their football crazy fans. Then of course there is Nigeria who have had the pressure taken off them by their sports minister when he publicy announced that the team have no set targets and only need "to do their best". However you can interpret that how you want because anytime the Super Eagles are in a major tournament the expectation on them is huge.
Other teams such as Mali, Tunisia & Mali will have hopes of going far in the competition and with countries such as Cameroon, Senegal & Egypt having not qualified this could be the most open CAN yet.
The sixteen counties who will fight it out for the title are as follows
Algeria
Angola
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
DR Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Mali
Morocco
Niger
Nigeria
Togo
Tunisia
Zambia
South Africa
Here's to another great tournament!
Ben
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