2015 AFCON Qualifiers

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"Maybe I'm not in his plans". Ighalo expresses disappointment at not making Oliseh's list.

I am actually looking forward to Mikel Obi’s reaction. I’m sure he was shocked and disappointed as well. Watford/Nigeria forward has vented his disappointment at not being picked by Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh for Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier game against Tanzania coming up in September.‎
Speaking to African Football, Ighalo said, “I am a little bit disappointed not to be in the list, but I am taking it in good faith. Nigeria is blessed with talents. I think the coach is rebuilding, maybe I am not in his plan for now. May be he will call me in future.”
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"CAF Award not important to me" – Vincent Enyeama

Seems Super Eagles skipper, Vincent Enyeama hasn’t gotten over Nigeria’s 2015 AFCON qualification failure or maybe he has but just baring his mind.
In an interview with SL10.ng, the 32 year-old who has been nominated for the CAF African player of the year and BBC African player of the year awards revealed that he is more concerned with team success than personal glory. He added that he”ll pick an AFCON qualification over winning CAF African Player of the year award.
“It’s not important to me and I’ve always been saying it because those are individual awards and if you ask me to choose, I would take the AFCON over the awards,”
He continued, “I really want to thank everyone that has been involved in making me get nominated and it’s a big honour for me as a Nigerian. It gives me pride and prestige and it would be great if we won it again and hopefully we will win it, but it’s about the team and not about me.”
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CAF RANKS NIGERIA TOP SEED FOR 2015 AFCON QUALIFIERS

Thanks to Super Eagles’ smashing AFCON 2013 victory. Confederation of African football (CAF) has ranked Nigeria as top seeded team for the Morocco 2015 Orange African Cup of Nation qualifiers. Nigeria garnered a total of 39.5 points, Ghana and Ivory Coast had 38 and 36 respectively. Their automatic qualification will also see them leading other countries to the group stage qualifiers.

Top Ten

 

(1) Nigeria –

(2) Ghana

(3) Ivory Coast

(4) Zambia

(5) Burkina Faso

(6) Mali

(7) Tunisia

(8) Morocco

(9) Algeria

(10) Angola

(10) Cape Verde

 

CAF’s criteria include the performance of the teams during the three last editions of the AFCON; qualifiers of those editions, and the qualifiers of the World Cup 2014. The qualifiers’ draw will be held Sunday, April 27th 2014 in Cairo, Egypt.

Top 21 teams listed in the CAF ranking will automatically qualify for the group phase which will be held from September 5th to November 19th 2014. The final phase’s draw shall be conducted on November 26th 2014 in Morocco. The 2015 AFCON will be played from 17th January – 7th February 2015.

 

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