JOHANNESBURG - Nigeria, South Africa and Morocco could be placed in the same group when the Africa Cup of Nations draw is made in the Ivory Coast on Thursday.
Add surprise 2021 Cup of Nations quarterfinalists Gambia from the fourth seeds and it would be a striking "group of death", the term given to particularly tough sections. To accommodate ninth-ranked Ivory Coast, sixth-placed Nigeria had to give way and now share second-seed status with Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Shock 2012 champions thanks to a penalty shootout victory over Didier Drogba-inspired Ivory Coast, Zambia are back at the Cup of Nations after three straight failures to qualify. They have been champions just once in 33 editions - topping a 1976 group in Ethiopia in one of only two editions where a mini-league determined the champions.
"We must be at least in the semifinals of the CAN . If I do not go to the semifinals, I will leave on my own," he told the Moroccan media.
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