Six Egypt and four Ghana players are among those selected for the African best eleven players from the Nations Cup. While Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, Cameroun and Zambia have two players each. One each was selected from Ivory Coast, Mali and Gabon.
After a meeting hours before the final of the Nations cup, the Technical Committee of CAF presented the list of the best eleven players of the tournament.
Members of this committee are Hussein Abdel Moneim, technical director of CAF, Ben Kouffie (Gha), Chief Onigbinde (Ngr), Anthony Baffoe (Gha), Noser Fathy (Egy) and Maalouch Belhassan (Tun).
The team.
(1) Essam EL HADARY (EGY)
(2) Madjid BOUGHERRA (ALG)
(20) Wael GOMAA (EGY)
(21) MABINA (ANG)
(6) Alexandre SONG (CMR)
(7) Ahmed FATHI (EGY)
(17) Ahmed HASSAN (EGY)
(11) Peter ODEMWINGIE (NGR)
(3) Asamoah GYAN (GHA)
(16) FLAVIO (ANG)
(9) Mohamed ZIDAN (EGY)
substitutes:
(22) Richard KINGSON (GHA) goalkeeper
(6) Emmanuel MBOLA (Zambie)
(10) Achille EMANA (CMR)
(10) Kwadwo ASAMOAH (GHA)
(12) Seydou KEITA (MLI)
(15) Karim ZIANI (ALG)
(15) Mohamed Nagy GEDO (EGY)
(13) André AYEW (GHA)
(11) Eric MOULOUNGUI (GAB)
(7) Ogbuke OBASI (NGR)
(7) Jacob MULENGA (ZAM)
(8) Salomon KALOU (CIV)