The rules of the draw mean there will be no all-African tie at least in the group stages.
Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and African champions, Senegal, will be praying and wishing for easy groups to be able to qualify to the knock out stages of the global soccer fiesta but as the saying goes, “To be the best, you must beat the best.”
The rules of the draw mean there will be no all-African tie at least in the group stages.Tunisia, Egypt and Senegal are drawn in Pot 2 while Morocco and Nigeria are in Pot 4.No African Team has made it pass the quarter finals stage. Ghana came closest to achieving that feat during the 2010 edition in South Africa but were denied by a late Luiz Suarez handball that denied Dominic Adiyiah his first World Cup goal.
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Asamoah Gyan missed the ensuing penalty before the West Africans went on to lose the game 2-4 on penalties.The African quintet will make another attempt to win the 2018 World Cup which kicks off in Russia on June 14, 2018.
The competition will see defending champions Germany battle for supremacy against 31 other teams from six football confederations.
