Five Cosafa teams out of contention for 2015 Afcon
Five teams from the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) bloc are already out of contention for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations having been booted out of the first two preliminary rounds.
The Flames and four others—Mozambique, Botswana, Seychelles Lesotho—are the four teams that have made it into the final preliminary round and stand a chance of progressing into the group stages to join South Africa, Zambia and Angola that were seeded by virtue of their good rankings.
The five teams that have so far fallen by the way side are Zimbabwe’s Warriors, Swaziland’s Sihlangu, Namibia’s Brave Warriors, Madagascar and Mauritius.
Zimbabwe were eliminated by Tanzania 3-2 on aggregate, Swaziland lost to Sierra Leone (2-1 aggregate), Namibia were ousted by Congo Brazaville (3-1 aggregate), Madagascar lost the plot on away goal rule having settled for a 2-2 draw aggregate score with Uganda while Mauritius were kicked out by Equatorial Guinea (3-1 on aggregate).
The Flames scraped through on away goal rule having drawn 3-3 with Chad.
FAM president Walter Nyamilandu, who is also a Cosafa executive member, attributed some Cosafa teams’ early exit to the crammed diary.
