Does Africa deserve more spots in the World Cup?!!

I know it's been said over and again but I find it such a shame that Africa's best team won't be playing in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa...

Four years ago, at the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, Senegal striker El-Hadji Diouf proclaimed that the "wrong teams" were going to the World Cup as the likes of Angola, Togo and Ghana failed to make it through the group phase.

Fast forward and 2010, it was a different story as all five World Cup bound teams minus hosts South Africa survived the group stage yet none, apart from say Ghana have been exciting to watch to say the least.

Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria and Ghana struggled in Angola and have been overshadowed by Egypt, a team that, despite all their success on the continent have not qualified for the World Cup since 1990. :(

The performances of Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Algeria will not do much in sending out what would have been a warning to their opponents in South Africa, and that's true till now.

Yet, that said and done, Egypt have looked the only truly coherent side so far, motivated by the twin aims of becoming the first team to win a third straight Cup of Nations, and by anger at their failure to qualify for the World Cup.

They have won the last two editions and had good results in the Confederations Cup, and to say they deserved to go to the World Cup, the first time it's being played on the African continent wouldn't be an exaggeration after all.

Like it or not, the Pharaohs are the best team on the continent and that is demonstrated with their record of six African titles, two more than both Ghana and Cameroon.

Winning the tournament in Angola will be the best answer for their fans, for the people outside of Egypt and for the players themselves.

Egypt's victory in Ghana in the win against Cameroon two years ago was pleasing to watch because I think that they played attractive football, probably the most attractive football of any team on the continent during the competition.

And when and not if the Pharaohs conquer African football for a record seventh time, it will go a long way to further confirm them as the greatest African team that's why it is such a big shame that such a team won't be part of a history making 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa.

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