From Angola to Cameroon, from Guinea to Algeria and from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Mali, Africa left its glorious footprints at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at a global football show where the continent's representative nations had their worst showing in 36 years.
Two weeks after Senegal's elimination because of their poor Fair Play record ensured there would be no African nation in the knock-out stages of the World Cup, for the first time since 1982, the continent provided the defining influence in the grand finale in Moscow on Sunday.
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