Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been placed in Pot 1 for Tuesday’s (today) draw for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’l voire, reports Completesports.com.
The Super Eagles are among the 12 teams seeded for the draw. Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Cameroon and Algeria are the other teams in Pot 1.
Others are; Mali, Cote d’loire, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo.
The draw ceremony will hold in the studios of SuperSport in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The 48 countries qualified to participate in the second round of the qualifiers have seeded into four pots based on the official FIFA ranking released on 31 March, 2022.
The teams will then be drawn into 12 groups of four teams (Group A to L) with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the tournament to be played in the West African country.
Hosts Cote d’Ivoire will also participate in the draw even though they have already secured the place in the tournament which means only one other team from their group will qualify for the competition.
The draw will be conducted by the CAF Director of Competitions Samson Adamu and assisted by African football legends Lucas Radebe of South Africa and Ivorian Solomon Kalou.
The first ball will be drawn from Pot 4 and will go to position A4.
The procedure will be repeated for the remaining teams of Pot 4 who will go to positions B4, C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, H4, I4, J4,K4 & L4 according to the draw order.
The same procedure as above will be repeated for Pot 3, Pot 2 and finally Pot 1.
The qualifiers will start in June 2022.
By Adeboye Amosu
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