Know your AFCON 2023 Group C teams

Dismas Otuke
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All teams in group C of the 2023 AFCON tournament;Senegal,Cameroon,Guinea and Gambia qualified for knock out stages in the 2021 event  with Senegal bagging their 1st trophy.

Senegal

Nick Name:Lions of Teranga

Head Coach: Aliou Cissé

Captain: Kalidou Koulibaly

AFCON history: 1x winners (2021) 2x runners-up: (2002, 2019)

16 AFCON appearances

CAF RANKING: 2nd

Star players:Sadio Mane

Cameroon

Nick Name:Indomitable Lions

Head Coach: Rigobert Song

Captain:Vincent Aboubakar

AFCON HISTORY: 5x winners (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017)

20 AFCON appearances

CAF RANKING: 7th

Player to watch: Vincent Aboubakar (Besiktas)

Gambia

Nick Name:The Scorpions

Head Coach: Tom Saintfiet

AFCON HISTORY: Quarter Finals (2021)

1 AFCON appearance

CAF RANKING: 35th

Player to watch: Alieu Fadera (Genk, Belgium)

Guinea

Nick Name: Syli National (National Elephants)

Head Coach: Kaba Diawara

AFCON HISTORY: 1x runners-up: (1976)

14 AFCON appearances

CAF RANKING: 15th

Player to watch: Naby Keita (Werder Bremen, Liverpool)

Remember to catch all the 52 matches live,free and exclusively on KBC Channel 1 and Y254.

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