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Adamu Mohammed is a promising star and he is a player to watch out for.

Trainings Camp with Bojan Krkic SR. and Srdan Gemaljevic in Barcelona


Scouting Team Barcelona organises in co-operation with Sports & Holiday Sales in Germany a Training Camp for German speaking young footballers in Barcelona, Spain. The Training Camp will be managed by Srdan Gemaljevic, former coach of Austrian 1st and 2nd League clubs and Bojan Krkic sr., father of the rising star Bojan at FC Barcelona. Scouting Team invites about 50 football players in the age of 12-16 years to take part in this camp from 16th - 24th of March. The Camp takes place during the Easter Holidays and will also offer visits to the Stadium Camp Nou of FC Barcelona, the famous Barca museeum, the Olympic area on the Montjuic and other sights in the City of FC Barcelona. Highlight is a planned visit of Barca stars like Bojan and others. Sure, this will be a great experience for any of these children.


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If we must rely on the second of their unique confrontations in the finals of the Nations Cup, the 1-0 victory of Tunisia in the quarter-final of the 2004 edition; their previous meeting during the finals of the 2004 edition, which Tunisia won 1-0, the duel between the Carthage Eagles and the Teranga Lions will be a key one with both teams sharing identical up and down tales.


During the last four years, the Tunisian team has witnessed a decline that is peculiar to ancient champions who have had difficulties getting out of their dreams.A team that witnessed great stability under Roger Lemerre has for the past five years lacked the homogeneity that made it the champion of the 24th edition with the commendable showing of Etoile du Sahel and Club Sportif Sfaxien, respective winners of the MTN-CAF Champions League and the Confederations Cup now boosting the potentials of the national team.


Tunisia’s Francileudo dos Santos, a non regular at his club is not match fit, but will be required to seize the opportunity with both hands to reinstate himself.


Other players ply their trade in Europe, but like coach Roger Lemmere will say, it is one thing to belong to a club, another to be on the starting line up.


The Coach would most likely play the Etoile card since eight of his players belong to the champion club and that could guarantee cohesion with the presence of central defender Raihi Jaidi of Birmingham City who has come out of retirement to help his country expected to enhance their chances.


If Tunisia has problems, Senegal can also claim same as its last outings have been nothing to write home about with the Teranga Lions anxious to restore their presence in the biennial fiesta.


Finalist in 2002, quarter-finalists in 2004 and semi-finalists in 2006 in Egypt, they have always gone into the competition with great potentials.


This year is a bit different, sneaking in with great humility could be a success formula and their Polish coach Henri Kasperczak, who is serious and rigid and succeeded in taking Mali to the semi-finals in 2002 is no stranger at such attitudinal changes.


In form attacking trio of Mamadou Niang, El Hadji Diouf and Henri Camara can take the Teranga Lions to the expected summit by receiving the right supply from midfield genus Ousmane Ndoye, Diomansy Kamara and Papa Bouba Diop.


In the central defence, experienced Habib Beye, Lamine Diatta and goalkeeper Tony Sylva hold sway.


Two strange formations; a match that could give a lot of pleasure to non-committed spectators.

Super Eagles Coach, Berti Vogts says his team will qualify for the quarter final of the African Cup of Nations despite their 1-0 defeat to Ivory Coast in their opening Group B match.

We have lost against the best team in Africa but we will be back,

said the 61-year-old German.


Nigeria next play Mali, who they now trail by three points.
Ivory Coast won the cagey duel thanks to a superb individual goal in the second-half from Chelsea's Salomon Kalou.

The win was a repeat of the semi-finals of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt where the Super Eagles were also defeated 1-0 after a Didier Drogba strike.


The next Group B matches take place on Friday in Sekondi where Ivory Coast play Benin before Nigeria take on Mali.