Africa: Oddities of Africa Cup of Nations

23 January 2010

Lagos — The history of the 53 years Africa Cup of Nations has been spiced with many delightful and undelightful oddities since its inception.

In fact, the inaugural edition began with an undelightful oddity. South Africa, which was one of the founding members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), was expelled because the South African Soccer authorities insisted on an all-white team, while CAF insisted on a multi-racial team. South Africa refused and CAF had no alternative than to use the sledge hammer by expelling South Africa.

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