Warriors drawn against Eritrea
The Brave Warriors have been drawn against Eritrea in the preliminary qualifying round for the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
The Namibians, currently ranked 121st in the world after plummeting by eight places in the latest Fifa world rankings, will face the 202nd ranked Eritrea.
The preliminary round matches will take place from 2 to 20 September.
Namibia is in pot 1 with Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and Lesotho.
Pot 2 consists of Comoros, Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mauritius, Gambia, South Sudan, Chad, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea.
The teams that received a bye are Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Guinea, Cape Verde, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Madagascar, Niger, Libya, Mauritania, Kenya and the Central African Republic.
The 14 preliminary round winners and the 26 countries who received byes will be split into 10 groups of four after a fresh draw, with the first matches to be played in March next year.
The group winners then go into five two-leg playoffs, with the winners qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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The Namibians, currently ranked 121st in the world after plummeting by eight places in the latest Fifa world rankings, will face the 202nd ranked Eritrea.
The preliminary round matches will take place from 2 to 20 September.
Namibia is in pot 1 with Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) and Lesotho.
Pot 2 consists of Comoros, Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mauritius, Gambia, South Sudan, Chad, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea.
The teams that received a bye are Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Guinea, Cape Verde, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Madagascar, Niger, Libya, Mauritania, Kenya and the Central African Republic.
The 14 preliminary round winners and the 26 countries who received byes will be split into 10 groups of four after a fresh draw, with the first matches to be played in March next year.
The group winners then go into five two-leg playoffs, with the winners qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
LIMBA MUPETAMI
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