Let the games begin

The  battlefiled has been laid for the AFCON 2013 tournament in South Africa. On paper the hosts are in a relativey easy group and will be expected by many football pundits to come out of the group stages. Bafana will kick matters off with Cape Verde who will be making their first appearance at the African showpiece after eliminating Cmeroon(4time African champions). Angola-who qualified for the 206 World Cup in Germany and took part in the last three Afcon tourmanets and the formiddable Morroco. So the group is not as easy as many people think it is. Undoubtedly most South Africans are pleased that the team is not slotted in group D alongside: Cote d' Ivoire, Tunisia, Algeria and Togo. Cote d' Ivoire were the finalists of the 2006 Afcon edition and qualified for the World Cup the same year. Tunisia and Togo also participated in that welcome, whereas Algeria qualified for the 2010 World Cup edition alongside Cote d' Ivoire who surprisingly lost to Zambia in this year's Afcon which was staged jointly gABON and Equatorial Guinea