Saudi Arabia-based Aboubakar scored the late winner when the Indomitable Lions came from behind to defeat Egypt in the 2017 final and win the flagship African competition a fifth time.
Only two of the last 12 tournaments were won by the host nation with Tunisia triumphant in 2004 and Egypt two years later. Blida, 45 kilometres southwest of Algiers, is known as the “slaughterhouse” and Djibouti and Niger will attest to that moniker having conceded eight and six goals there in World Cup thrashings.
They represent a Portuguese-speaking nation off the west coast of Africa with a population of less than 600,000, whose football team is on the rise again.
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