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13/02/2012 - Report - Africa Cup of Nations

Zambia's spooky victory

Hervé Renard, the Zambia coach, said the team’s run to the final was written somewhere.

13/02/2012 - Report - African Cup of Nations

CAN - Copper Bullets shoot down the Elephants

More than five things we learned about the final:

12/02/2012 - Report - African Cup of Nations

Ghana ready for final but Mali show more pep

Five things we learned about the third place play off:

11/02/2012 - Interview - African Cup of Nations

Our experience will win CAN, says Côte d'Ivoire coach François Zahoui

Of the two coaches leading their teams into the final, François Zahoui is the more inexperienced. At 51, this is his first Africa Cup of Nations while his Zambia counterpart, Hervé Renard, is into his third competition.

11/02/2012 - Interview - African Cup of Nations

From hauling bins to CAN final, Zambia coach Hervé Renard speaks

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Michael Phelps had the music of Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy surging through his iPod earphones as he strode towards the starting blocks and went on to win a ...

11/02/2012 - Interviews - African Cup of Nations

Zambia team pay tribute to 1993 plane crash victims ahead of CAN final

27 April 1993 is sewn into Zambia ’s collective memory as the day a golden generation of footballers died in a plane crash just outside Libreville airport.

09/02/2012 - CAN blog

Travel broadens the mind - not!

The adage goes that travel broadens the mind. However my experiences of flights between match sites during an Africa Cup of Nations run counter to that saying.

09/02/2012 - Report - Africa Cup of Nations

CAN - Côte d'Ivoire already have the championship glow

Five things we learned from Wednesday’s semi-finals.

06/02/2012 - Interviews - Africa Cup of Nations

Give us more time, says Tunisia skipper Haggui

Tunisia skipper Karim Haggui is urging his country’s football association not to make hasty changes following the side’s elimination from the Africa Cup of Nations.

06/02/2012 - Report - Africa Cup of Nations

CAN - Crowds shun top quarter-final action

Five things we learned from Sunday’s quarter finals.

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