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I'm just wondering because I think West Africans are suffering from inferiority complex and just fall apart when they come to world cup, but when they are in Africa or playing in the Premier league they play good. like Ghana which was the favorite and better team losing to US and Nigeria not able to score against Iran and Cameroon losing against average teams.
If East African team would advance, I'm guessing they would try to at least advance to the semifinals if not the finals, because when it comes to the Marathons, East Africans bring the Cup home and don't suffer from lack of confidence , but West Africa can't bring one cup, no matter where its held.

Nope

Football doesn't amount to something as simple as confidence, the Africans have got very weak organization, discipline, tactical shape, chemistry, communication, technique and football intelligence and their result is suffering as a result. East African teams have not shown to be anywhere near the top West Africans teams let alone the top sides from Latin America and Europe. Teams from Horn of Africa have even greater disadvantage such physical weakness, stamina is hardly an advantage.

Yeah they did ..in this special World Cup where Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen play

An East African team have never played in the World Cup. In fact Zaire was the first Sub-Saharan African country to play in the World Cup. They played in the 1974 WC.

Nope, never. East African teams mostly suck at the world stage, and the strongest (and oldest) teams are Ethiopia and Sudan. The interesting cliff notes:

2 east African teams founded the Africa Cup in 1957 (Sudan and Ethiopia). Ethiopia won 2nd place then and first place in 1962. They went on to the 1962 World Cup qualification were they were knocked out by Israel in the 2nd round. This was probably one of Ethiopia's best national team and was mostly Eritreans, when Eritrea was still part of Ethiopia.

They closest since then was 2014 World Cup where they advanced to Group A World Cup qualifications after beating Somalia 5-0. Out of their group, they were the strongest team and were set to advance to the World Cup for the first time ever when they got knocked out by Nigeria in the third round.

In the 1958 World Cup qualifications, Ethiopia was refused entry. Sudan was allowed in but withdrew because they had to play Israel. Sudan won the 1970 Africa Cup.

Somalia's team has never qualified for the World or African cups, nor has it won or gotten top 3 in any tournament. We all know the situation in Somalia for the past 25 years, no one could even play in Somalia let alone adequately prepare a national team.

Same with Djibouti.

Kenya has been banned since 2006 by FIFA.

Eritrea has never qualified for the World or African cups, and its team is famous for running away at away games and applying for asylum, which makes sense when you remember Eritrea is basically the North Korea of Africa, if not worse.

• 2006, after a CAF Champions League match in Nairobi 4 members of the Eritrean team Red Sea FC defected.
  
  2007 CECAFA Cup in Tanzania, 12 members of the Eritrean national team defected.
  
  March 2007 after a Africa Cup qualifying game in Angola, another 6 Eritrean national team members defected and sought asylum. Later, 3 more members of the Eritrean national team sought asylum in Sudan.
  
  Because of all these high profile defections, Eritrea withdrew from the 2008 CECAFA cup, the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 African Cup. The Eritrean government also began requiring athletes to pay 100,000 Nakfa bond before traveling for away games.
  
  This didn't work though, since when Eritrea returned to the 2009 CECAFA cup, 12 members of the team failed to show up for their return flight and instead sought assistance from the Refugee Consortium of Kenya.
  
  This was very embarrassing to the Eritrean regime which hired on a new coach who promised to prevent any future defections like the infamous one in Kenya.
  
  December 2012, 17 Eritrean footballers and the team doctor vanished after CECAFA championship in Uganda and all applied for asylum.
  
  December 2013, this same coach who said he'd stop defections and 9 players from the Eritrean national football team all disappeared in Kenya, once again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_na ... _World_Cup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia_n ... tball_team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_na ... tball_team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea_na ... tball_team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_nati ... tball_team

In 1978, the Harar-based club Ogaden Anbessa won the Ethiopian Premier League.

http://www.ethiofootball.com/history.html

East African teams rank at the bottom of the list for FIFA World Rankings, see page 7: http://www.fifa.com/worldranking/rankingtable/

Out of 207 countries:

Eritrea is 201.
Somalia is 202.
Djibouti is 204.

South Sudan is 185.

Ethiopia is 107.
Kenya is 108.
Sudan is 120.

Uganda is 86.
Tanzania is 113.
Rwanda is 116.

Thank you very much for your detailed info Gabre.
lool @ Eritrean teams defecting everytime, that is even worse than West Africans flanking in the world cup, the last thing we want is a team embarrassing us by running and defecting to the host country.
I heard about Zaire being the only East African team that qualified and they got knocked out by 7-0 by Serbia or something.

Estarix wrote:Football doesn't amount to something as simple as confidence, the Africans have got very weak organization, discipline, tactical shape, chemistry, communication, technique and football intelligence and their result is suffering as a result. East African teams have not shown to be anywhere near the top West Africans teams let alone the top sides from Latin America and Europe. Teams from Horn of Africa have even greater disadvantage such physical weakness, stamina is hardly an advantage.

How can you say Horns lack stamina or have physical weakness, when they always win the long edurance marathons, its always Ethiopian, Kenyan, Eritrean or sometimes even Somalian.

SagalSharmarke wrote:Yeah they did ..in this special World Cup where Somalia, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen play

Lol, "Special" World Cup, good grief.

Football is a culture. Somalia doesn't have peace and east african countries have culturally preferred athletics. West african countries are also slightly richer and have higher populations.