a écrit le 7 août 2008 à 23h47 Pfister: Africa has caught up(FIFA.com) Thursday 7 August 2008
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If you choose to believe the experts, the time is rife for an African team to make the latter stages of a FIFA World Cupâ„¢, with a growing number of voices predicting that at least one team from the host continent will make it through to the semi-finals of South Africa 2010. When talk turns to which African teams are capable of such a feat, Cameroon would be many people's candidate to go a stage further than the quarter-final the Indomitable Lions managed at Italy 1990.
FIFA.com took the opportunity to talk to Cameroon coach Otto Pfister about the current round of qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and to discuss the state of African football ahead of the showpiece event in South Africa in two year's time. After spells in charge of Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Rwanda, the 70-year-old German certainly has all the experience needed to make a candid and insightful assessment of the prospects for the continent's great hopes.
FIFA.com: Mr Pfister, your team has been in very impressive form during qualification for South Africa 2010. Is your place in the next round already assured?
Otto Pfister: We only need one more point from the two remaining games to reach the next round, so it's looking good for us. That said, the next game, away to Cape Verde Islands, will be the stiffest challenge we've faced so far in this round. We'll be getting together at a trai
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If you choose to believe the experts, the time is rife for an African team to make the latter stages of a FIFA World Cupâ„¢, with a growing number of voices predicting that at least one team from the host continent will make it through to the semi-finals of South Africa 2010. When talk turns to which African teams are capable of such a feat, Cameroon would be many people's candidate to go a stage further than the quarter-final the Indomitable Lions managed at Italy 1990.
FIFA.com took the opportunity to talk to Cameroon coach Otto Pfister about the current round of qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and to discuss the state of African football ahead of the showpiece event in South Africa in two year's time. After spells in charge of Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Rwanda, the 70-year-old German certainly has all the experience needed to make a candid and insightful assessment of the prospects for the continent's great hopes.
FIFA.com: Mr Pfister, your team has been in very impressive form during qualification for South Africa 2010. Is your place in the next round already assured?
Otto Pfister: We only need one more point from the two remaining games to reach the next round, so it's looking good for us. That said, the next game, away to Cape Verde Islands, will be the stiffest challenge we've faced so far in this round. We'll be getting together at a trai
