Egypt: The Unsurprising Surprise

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 Egypt: The Unsurprising Surprise
It’s the second time in a row and the third time in a decade that Egypt have won the African Nations Cup — yet to aficionados of football in the Northern Hemisphere, it still came as a something of a shock. Most of the Egyptians still ply their trade in their home country, which offers relative riches compared to other domestic African leagues, and are thus lesser known than ... [link]

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Daily Dose 2.11.08
Published 2/11/2008 by Daryl at World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
... site The Offside and some non-related but still very good sites too. Congrats to the Africa Cup of Nations champions (Egypt Blog) Don’t read this if your name is Drew Moor (USA Blog) Pick a Swiss starting eleven (Switzerland Blog) Los Che win at last (Valencia Offside) Team USA are on their way to (new) Wembley (Soccer by Ives) Egypt remind us there’s life outside the Euo-leagues (Pitch Invasion) Some Africa Cup of Nations celebrations (The Footie)

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