World Cup qualifications draw

Nigeria and South Africa drawn together in World Cup
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DURBAN, South Africa (AFP) — Nigeria and South Africa will play in the same 2010 World Cup qualifying after the Africa draw here Sunday.

Rapidly improving Equatorial Guinea and struggling Sierra Leone complete Group 4, easily the toughest of the 12 second-round round-robin pools.

...I was just starting to wonder why South Africa will have to play in the qualifications since we are the hosts of the World Cup... But then I read the next sentence...

South Africa qualify automatically for the finals as hosts but must compete as the qualifiers also count toward the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola.

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