Tunis

World Cup
A F R I CA’S Samuel Eto’o Nwankwo Kanu Didier Drogba Algiers
TUNISIA
IVORY COAST
countries
Rabat Mediterranean Sea

World
CAMEROON NIGERIA
2006 • 2010 MOROCCO
1998 • 2002 • 2010 1998 • 2002 • 2010 A two-time African footballer Thirteen African nations have
In 1998, 17-year-old As captain of the of the year, Drogba scored Canary Cairo fielded squads in soccer’s
Samuel Eto’o became 2010 Nigerian team, Ivory Coast’s first ever World Islands
one of the youngest Kanu will be appearing ALGERIA premier competition; including
Cup goal in 2006; he scored
players in tournament in his third World Cup; 6 goals in 5 matches to help LIBYA EGYPT this year’s tournament,
history; his first cup in 1996, he played on his team qualify for the 2010 Cameroon has played in six

Cup
goal, in 2002, was a the Nigerian squad cup
game-winner against that won gold at the WESTERN World Cups, followed by
SAHARA
Saudi Arabia in group play Atlanta Olympics
Michael Essien Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia
with four trips each
GHANA
2006 • 2010 World Cup Qualified for
Essien played on MAURITANIA
countries 2010 WC
Ghana’s 2006 squad, NIGER
the only African nation
MALI Red
to reach the round of 16 CHAD
in that World Cup, and is SENEGAL ERITREA Sea

S TA R S
a key member of the Dakar
2010 squad GAMBIA SUDAN
FIFA 100 BURKINA
Rabah Madjer GUINEA- FASO DJIBOUTI
Africa’s first World Cup team Jay-Jay Okocha ALGERIA
BISSAU GUINEA BENIN NIGERIA
NIGERIA 1982 • 1986 IVORY GHANA
was fielded by Egypt in 1934, 1994 • 1998 • 2002 Madjer played on
SIERRA
COAST TOGO
LEONE Abuja ETHIOPIA
but it was 36 years and seven Okocha’s play was key to Algeria’s national team LIBERIA Lome
CAMEROON
CENTRAL
Yamoussoukro Accra AFRICAN REPUBLIC
tournaments later before Nigeria securing its first World for 14 years; he scored
the first goal in Algeria’s SOMALIA
Cup appearance in 1994;
Morocco started the returning in ’98, Nigeria again 2-1 win over Germany
in the 1982 World Cup Yaoundé
continent’s unbroken run reached the round of 16; DEMOCRATIC 200 km
Okocha captained an ’02 EQUATORIAL GUINEA REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
of appearances. Cameroon’s squad that failed to advance
CONGO THE CONGO** KENYA 200 mi.

Roger Milla became the first out of the first round

South African SAO TOME
AND PRINCIPE
GABON Lake
Victoria
EQUATOR

African to star in a World Cup, RWANDA

leading the Indomitable Lions venues BOTSWANA

BURUNDI
Indian Ocean

to the 1990 quarterfinals. 2010 Kinshasa Inside the ball

WORLD Existing stadiums Polokwane TANZANIA Inner
The only other African team Milla’s four Roger Milla
Lake
Tanganyika
shell 3D
CUP New stadiums 8
to go as deep in the goals and his
CAMEROON
NAMIBIA Rustenburg Luanda
panels
impromptu Nelspruit
tournament was Senegal’s dances made him 1990 • 1994 5 Lake
9 6 ANGOLA Malawi Bladder
2002 squad. The 2010 World a star in the 1990
World Cup; appearing FIFA 100 FIFA 100 FIFA 100 100 km Pretoria
Cup will showcase a quartet in the 1994 World Cup Milla was one 100 mi. Johannesburg 2 10 SWAZILAND MALAWI
at age 42, Milla
of five Three greats George Weah Abedi Pele Mahmoud ‘Bibo’ El Khatib
of talented African footballers became the
Africans*
named to the who missed L I BERIA GHANA EGYPT Upington Largest stadium: 94,500 ZAMBIA MOZAMBIQUE
led by Cameroon’s Samuel tournament’s oldest player FIFA 100 list out on the Selected as Africa’s “Player
of the Century” by sports
One of Africa’s greatest and
most honored footballers, Pele
Bibo was voted the second-best
CAF footballer of the past 50 3 MADAGASCAR
Eto’o and Nigeria’s Nwankwo and also the oldest player of “greatest
World Cup journalists around the globe, Springbok LESOTHO 1
to score a goal in cup play living played in 73 matches for the years; he led Egypt’s national Atlantic Durban
footballers” Weah is the only African to be Black Stars and is known as team in the 1980 and 1984 Bloemfontein
Kanu, each playing in his third named World FIFA player (’95) Ghana’s greatest player Olympic Games
Ocean ZIMBABWE
tournament. SOUTH AFRICA NAMIBIA
African ALGERIA ANGOLA CAMEROON EGYPT GHANA IVORY COAST MOROCCO NIGERIA SENEGAL SOUTH AFRICA TOGO TUNISIA ZAIRE** Indian BOTSWANA
nations Ocean
7
World Cup timeline 4
in the
World Pretoria
Cup: Cape Town Port Elizabeth Atlantic
Since 1970, at least one African nation has 1934
qualified in each World Cup. A record six 1970 Cape of Good Hope Ocean Johannesburg SWAZILAND
teams will play in this year’s event (see 1974
map). Here’s how African squads have 1978
1982 1 Durban Stadium 7 Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium LESOTHO
fared in past World Cups. 1986
1990 2 Ellis Park Stadium 8 Peter Mokaba Stadium 2010 World Cup ball
1994 SOUTH AFRICA The official soccer ball created for the
1st Round Round of 16 Quarterfinals 1998 3 Free State Stadium 5 Loftus Versfeld Stadium 9 Royal Bafokeng Stadium South African World Cup; “Jabulani”
2002 Cape Town
means “to celebrate” in Zulu, one of
WIN DRAW LOSS 2006 4 Green Point Stadium 6 Mbombela Stadium 10 Soccer City South Africa’s 11 official languages
Cape of Good Hope
© 2010 MCT Source: Confederation of African Football (CAF), Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), World Factbook Graphic: Wm Pitzer * The fifth footballer on the FIFA 100 is Senegal’s El Hadji Diouf ** Zaire appeared in the 1974 World Cup; today, the nation is known as the Democratic Republic of The Congo