In a few minutes the City of Cairo will reveal to Africa the long awaited 2019 AFCON draw. The 2019 CAF Nations Cup will be hosted in Egypt, and is expected to have a massive view due to the change in time.

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Breaking News

CAF General Secretary sacked ahead of AFCON draw.

The Confederations of African Football (CAF) general secretary Amr Fahmy (an Egyptian) has reported to be sacked ahead of the African Cup of Nations Draw to be held later this evening at Cairo.

The reason for the sack has not been unfold and CAF is yet to drop a comment on this.

Amr Fahmy has served as the general secretary since November, 2017.

We will keep our hands cross as the story unfold.

Back to the business of the day.

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Venue For The Draw

The draw is to be held facing the Sphinx and the Pyramids in one of Egypt ancient cities Cairo

Time For The Draw

The Egypt 2019 AFCON draw will start at precisely 18:00 GMT; 19:00 BST; 14:00 ET; 20:00 CET and 11:00 PT.

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Where To Watch The Draw Live

If you are not close to your television set don't worry as you can stream it live on your mobile phone, Laptop, Notepad and tablet.

Online channels streaming the Africa Cup of Nations draw live

In Nigeria , Ghana and South Africa , the AFCON 2019 draw can be streamed online on SuperSport Live

In Canada, the draw will be live online on DAZN and beIN SPORTS CONNECT Canada.

In UK, the AFCON 2019 draw will be live on EuroSport Player UK.

In US, watch the draw live on Fanatiz USA and beIN SPORTS CONNECT.

If you are at home,or in the office, hanging out with friends and you have a television around you can save your data and join the draw live.

For the television channels, broadcasting will be shown live

In Nigeria:

SuperSport 7 Nigeria and SuperSport 7.

In Ghana

Football lovers can watch live can watch the draw live on SuperSport 7.

In South Africa:

SuperSport 7

In Netherlands:

Fox Sports 4 and Fox Sports Go.

In Canada:

The draw will be aired live on beIN Sports Canada for all football fans.

In US:

Our oyibo(fair) friends can join the draw live on beIN SPORTS.

In United Kingdom:

Can also watch it live on EuroSport Player UK.

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Pot Seeding

The 24 qualified teams were all seeded into four pots with set of six(6). The Host team is automatically assigned Pot 1.

Cameroon are also in Pot 1 as the defending Champions, Nigeria also make it to the first Pot because of their current FIFA ranking (released 4 April 2019).

Ghana drop into Pot 2 after dropping in the current FIFA ranking.

South Africa is the only outstanding team in Pot 3.

Zimbabwe are in Pot 4 along with fellow Council of Southern Africa Football Associations ( COSAFA) teams Namibia and Angola.

Pot 1:
Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Morocco.
Pot 2:
DR Congo, Ghana, Mali, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Algeria.
Pot 3:
South Africa, Uganda, Benin, Mauritania, Madagascar, Kenya.
Pot 4:
Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Burundi, Tanzania.

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2019 AFCON Will Be Historical. Why??

Firstly, More Attention.

This will be actually the first time in the history of the AFCON that the tournament is being shifted from its odd time between January and February to the off-season time of June- July.

This means that football fans all around the World will their eyes on the AFCON competition.

More football fans and tourist will turn up for the CAF event.

All European clubs will be free to release their players to their different countries without any issue.

Secondly, Teams and Format

Since 1996 AFCON has been a 16-team tournament with four (4) groups in which the top two teams in each group automatically make it to the last 8.

Egypt 2019 will be the first time the tournament will be witnessing 24 teams that will be drawn into six (6) groups with a set of four teams each.

Each team will play a single round robin in their respective group. After the group stages, the top two teams in each group and four best 3rd teams will be added up as they advance to the round of 16. Wow...

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Stars in Cairo Already

Yaya Toure of Ivory Coast

Jame Appiah of Ghana

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Last Words

As a Nigerian and a super fan of the Super Eagles my joy is filled to the brim that the Super Eagles made it to this year CAF African Cup of Nations after missing out in the last two editions after winning the 2013 edition the Super Eagles could not even defend the title they won, so to me as a football fan in was boring to some extent as this inner satisfaction was not just there.

The Super Eagles AFCON qualifications was one the best in over a decade as they qualified with a game at hand even after starting on a losing note in the Nest of Champions. Nigeria Odiong Ighalo was the highest goal scorer with 7 goals as he sent a clear message to other countries.

I was around to bring live photo shoot on Nigeria vs Libya game to this platform in with everyone really appreciate and I was being encourage to keep Scorum fans posted in every local game I covered.

To seal the joy, FIFA ranking released early this month pushed Nigeria to Pot 1 as they can now prevent all the team that could have been a threat at the group stage level.

What more can I say than to say a very big thank you to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State for their total support to the Super Eagles and to the massive fans who always come out in their numbers to cheer them to victory, we heart you guys. One love.

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Thanks for staying tuned.

More details after the draws.

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