Nigeria are among the second seeds while South Africa have had to settle for a place among the third seeds for the draw in Abidjan.
Bafana Bafana during a training session at High Performance Centre on Monday. and Morocco could be placed in the same group when the Africa Cup of Nations draw is made in the Ivory Coast on Thursday.The six top seeds include Morocco, who created history at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar by becoming the first semi-finalists from Africa.
Nigeria, three-time winners of the premier African football competition, and former champions South Africa were unlucky not to be seeded higher.The Super Eagles lie sixth in the continental rankings and, ordinarily, would have been a top seed, avoiding Morocco, title-holders Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt in the group stage.
South Africa had been ranked above DR Congo for some time but, in the rankings that decided the seedings, they were placed one place below the Congolese. Zambia and Mozambique, whose last appearance was in 2010, are the only qualifiers who have not featured in at least one of the last two tournaments.
In the last Cup of Nations, hosted by Cameroon in 2022, Morocco were eliminated by Egypt in the quarter-finals. “I told my players that we cannot be kings of the world before being kings of our continent. Everyone wants to beat Morocco after our results in Qatar.
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