The AFCON 2013 Qualifiers Mikel Obi celebrates
Just after the Equatorial Guinea/Gabon showpiece other actions commenced as the battle for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations kicked-off and one would wonder why they the Confederation would schedule a back to back cup of nations and this was be- cause the African governing body, CAF decided with some influence from FIFA to host the tournament every odd year to avoid overload on the players during the FIFA World cup years.
The 2013 tournament finals were scheduled to have been staged in Libya but be- cause of the political unrest, South Africa stepped in and struck a deal to swap the hosting rights.
Unlike the qualifiers to the 2012 tournament, the South Africa 2013 took a different di- mension with CAF giving a bye to some nations as the qualifying matches where played on a knockout basis without any group action due to the short time span be- tween the 2012 finals and 2013 competition with the host South Africa automatically qualifying as the host.
The first qualifying round saw 28 Nations battle for 14 spots to make it into the next round and the 14 winners were joined by 16 finalists from the 2012 African Nations Cup finals of which 15 winners qualified for the finals in South Africa.
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