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SA open prelims for Futsal champs

South Africa will play Angola in the opening match of the African preliminaries for the World Futsal Championship that begin in Tripoli, Libya, on March 21.

Ten participating African countries were divided in two groups of five teams at the weekend.

In group A are Libya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and Cameroon.

In group B are Egypt, Zambia, South Africa, Angola and Mozambique.

The matches will be played in two venues: Cortuba and African Union.

The South Africa v Angola match is one of four games to be decided on March 21. The others are Tunisia v Morocco, Egypt v Zambia and host country Libya against Nigeria.

The final match takes place on March 30.

For the first time since the inaugural Fifa Futsal World Championship held in the Netherlands in 1989, two countries will represent Africa in at the final in Brazil.

Current champions, Egypt, represented Africa in last championship in Chinese Taipei in 2004, which was won by Spain.





Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com