MALI 2002 - The African Cup Of Nations XXIII
   The qualification - GROUP 2

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A- Liberia, B- Mauritius, C- Congo, D- S. Africa
A very interesting group: Liberia and Congo are both quite well playing teams, regularly on the verge of qualification and Mauritius has been a decent team, especially uncomfortable at home. South Africa had problems there before. But South Africa should be a too solid team to fail, the race for second place seems wide open with Liberia and Congo the most likely candidates.

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Congo-South Africa 1:2
AFP/sportserver:
0:1 ('21) Thabbo Mngomeni (bycicle kick), 0:2 ('59) August (low shot), 1:2 ('70) Rolf Christel Guie Mien (controversial handball penalty)

Liberia - Mauritius 4:0
att. 35,000 (reuters/dailysoccer)

Mauritius-Congo  1:2
0:1('26),0:2('29) Rolf-Christel Guie-Mien, 1:2('47) Jean-Marc Ithier

South Africa - Liberia 2:1

Liberia-Congo 5:1
Reuters: Liberia - James Debbah 23, 60, Oliver Makor 30, Zizi Roberts 51, Prince Daye 62 

Mauritius - South Africa 1:1
dailysoccer.com/Reuters:  0:1 Delron Buckley 43, 1:1 Pascal Francois 60pen, att: 5,000
Mauritius: 1-Orwin Castel; 3-Sylvain Content (2-Guillano Eduoard 50), 12-Henri Speville, 7-Eric Philogene, 6-Stenio Adelaide, 4-Steeve Curpanen; 5-Jean-Sebastien Bax, 8-Gilbert Bayaram (11-Jimmy Cundasami 71), 14-Ricardo Naboth (17-Christopher Perle 63), 10-Desire Periatambee; 13-Pascal 
Francois. 
South Africa: 1-Andre Arendse; 2-Cyril Nzama, 4-Aaron Mokoena, 5-Frank Schoeman; 7-David Kannemeyer; 13-Pierre Issa, 10-Dumisa Ngobe (12-Godfrey Sapula 68), 15-Sibusiso Zuma 
(8-Helman Mkhalele 76), 18-Delron Buckley; 6-Phil Masinga (11-Bradley August 77), 14-Siyabonga Nomvete.

South Africa - Mauritius  3:0
(1:0 ('4) McCarthy, 2:0 ('14) Phiri,  3:0 ('20) Zuma)
Congo - Liberia  0:1 
'62
*South Africa qualified for Nations Cup, Liberia needs 1 point
With South Africa leading this group, Liberia at Congo in a possibly predeciding match, if they take all points at Pointe Noire. Liberia has complained about an intentional bad treatment by the hosts, who bacame famous for their 'hospitality' already a few years ago when they created an atmosphere of intimidation against South Africa at a WC qualifier match.
 

Liberia - South Africa  1:1 
(0:1 Rabutla '39, 1:1 Oliver Makor '48 pen.) *Liberia qualified
A second string South African squad led at halftime, when Liberia who had played with some new players as well brought on George Weah and Prince Daye who provided for the penalty which led to the equalizer.
Liberia: 1-Anthony Tokpah, 15-Thomas Kojo, 17-George Gebro, 4-Dionysius Sebwe, 8-Joe Nagbe, 6-Kelvin Sebwe, 12-Oliver Makor, 3-Edward Dixon (13-Alex Brown 35), 18-Maas Sarr (11-Prince Daye 46), 7-Frank Seator, 10-Josephus Yenay (14-George Weah 46) 
South Africa: 1-Andre Arendse, 3-Jacob Lekgetho, 4-Matthew Booth, 5-Andrew Rabutla (2-Cyril Nzama 74), 6-Fabian McCarthy, 12-Teboho Mokoena, 10-Bennett Mnguni, 15-Dillon Sheppard, 18-Josep Ngake (8-Craig Bianchi 82), 9-Abram Raselemane (14-Siyabonga Nomvete 53), 11-Bradley August 
Referee: Lucien Bouchardeau (Niger) 

Congo - Mauritius  0:0
 

week 6
Jun 15-17, 2001

South Africa - Congo  0:0 

Mauritius - Liberia   0:2 
Tondo '1, '61, no att.