Even if football's greatest showpiece kicks off in just under three weeks, I feel the story of Africa is already told. We have this self-destruct button that we always reach for every four years. And our failures are always about money, hardly about football.
Our technical ability has undoubtedly come a long way and for the first time in a very long while, we shall be represented by a very technical group in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria and Senegal.
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