Afcon draw on today

JOHANNESBURG — African interest will fall on Johannesburg today when the draw for the final round of qualifiers for the 2013 Afcon finals takes place at Emperors Palace.

Thirty countries divided into Pot A and Pot B will go into the draw that will determine the final qualification route for next year’s continental showpiece to be staged in the country from January 19-February 10.

Pot A which has all the seeded teams based on showings at the last three editions of the Afcon finals after the second round of qualifiers has Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia and Zambia.

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