The soccer event is for gamers underneath the age of 20 and this calendar year it is scheduled to be held in Rwanda from 18 January to 1 February 2009.
The 8 taking part teams this calendar year include Mali, Cameroon, Ghana and Rwanda forming Team A and South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Cote d’Ivoire forming Team B.These gamers had been selected soon after the Preliminary Round to start with leg matches held from 18 April to 20 April 2008, and the Next Spherical next legs matches from 2 May perhaps to 4 May 2008, followed by 1st Round 1st leg matches held from 27 June to 29 June 2008, First Round second leg matches held from 11 July to 13 July 2009, and the Second Round to start with leg matches held from 26 September to 28 September 2008 and Next Spherical next legs matches from 11 October to 13 October.
The prime two sides from every pool will progress to the semifinals, which will pick out these 4 nations to qualify for the Less than-20 FIFA Planet Cup, which will get put in Egypt in September 2009. If hosts Egypt reach the top 4 teams, then the staff on 5th location will qualify for the Less than-20 Planet Cup as the Egyptians obviously qualify to be component of the World Cup.
So significantly, Nigeria is in the direct, with an combination retailer of 7 from Sudan, which has an combination rating of 2. Nigeria is detailed as No. 1 on the Continental Rank with 5 winnings in the African Youth Championship. 2nd in line is Ghana with a continental rank of 2 in Africa Countrywide U20 soccer teams, out of the 20 teams participating in Africa National U20 Football teams. Ghana has also received African Youth Championship 2 moments right before, in 1993 and 1999. Subsequent are Gambia, Mali and Congo, with continental ranks of 3, 4 and 5 respectively. Egypt, Zambia and Cameroon stick to them subsequent. Cote d’Ivoire is also a powerful contender with an combination score of 5 but this levels of competition for the qualification for the Environment Youth Championship will surely be a tricky 1.
The African Youth Championship started out way back in 1979 and included teams / players like Algeria, Guinea, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Morocco, Mauritius, Cameroon and Tunisia. The groups performed to qualify for the FIFA Beneath-20 Planet Cup as properly. 2007 African Youth Championship saw Congo as the ultimate champion versus Nigeria, beating them by 1-. This year’s host (Rwanda) will have to battle like final a long time host (Congo) to gain the title for on their own.
With much less than a month to go for the African Youth Championship to be aid in Rwanda, the exhilaration has previously begun developing among the 1000’s of soccer supporters in Rwanda and globally.
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