Relive the best World Cup qualifying moments

Several African underdogs ignored the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking and held their own against more-fancied opposition as the African qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia entered the second round. Such lesser-known sides as Madagascar, Comoros, Swaziland and Chad achieved the biggest shocks.

Fourteen teams play in Africa Cup of Nations second-round first leg qualifiers this weekend, aiming to reach the group stage.

The Gambia coach Tom Saintfiet says this month's Afcon qualifiers should be postponed as he cannot access seven key players owing to the coronavirus.

Sometimes when you are at a distance, you don’t read things properly. So I am wondering whether it is just I, or if indeed there is something different about this year’s United Nations general assembly.

The Confederation of African Football believes its decision to move the timing of the Cup of Nations is paying immediate dividends in Brazil.

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The cynics can eat humble pie. Brazil 2014 has after all confounded critics to ensconce itself among the very best World Cups in history.

Nigeria midfielder Michael Babatunde is ruled out of the rest of the World Cup because of a fractured wrist.