We're still flying high with our African winning football team. Last Saturday the nation's parliament was the latest site for some more feting. But people have started to look ahead, specifically to the 2010 World Cup.
It is truly amazing how Egypt, which has won the Africa Cup of Nations a record six times, including the last two, has gone to the World Cup only twice - the last time being 18 years ago and the first participation before most of us were born, in 1934.
While we have found the door to the World Cup difficult to open, other Arab and African countries find it wide open. Cameroon has been there the most times — five. In its first appearance, in 1982, it tied the three games it played, the same as group mate Italy, but Italy went to the next stage on goal difference and eventually won the cup. Cameroon's best showing was in 1990 when it shocked defending champions Argentina in the opener before coming ever so close to beating England which would have put it in the semi-finals. In 2002 Senegal too almost made it to the last four.
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