African teams must scale new heights at the world cup

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With the Football World Cup in Qatar being just around the corner, African fans are eagerly looking forward to the global feast of football with mounting excitement.

Indeed, many African fans are bullish that at least a few of our World Cup-bound teams possess the mettle to progress very far in the unfailingly exciting football championship.

At this point, it should be noted that our five world cup representatives this year are: Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Tunisia and Morocco.

It should also be recollected that no African team in history has progressed beyond the quarterfinal stage of the world cup, which is really a crying shame.

Indeed, with gigantic numbers of Africa’s most glittering football gems leaving the continent every year to join the premier football clubs in the world, one would expect that African teams would have been able to advance to the semifinal stage of the world cup a few times by now.

Frustratingly though, as alluded to earlier since the inaugural world cup tournament in 1930 to date, no African team has managed to progress to the semifinals of the global football spectacular.

One dearly hopes then that Africa’s world cup hoodoo will end this year in Qatar.

Ergo, as we continue to wait for the world cup’s big kick-off with breathless excitement, it is hoped that at least a few of our quintet of teams at the showpiece event will rewrite the history books and open a new glorious chapter in Africa’s lengthy involvement in the perpetually captivating football spectacle.