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5 Winners And 5 Losers From AFCON Qualifiers

5 Winners And 5 Losers From AFCON Qualifiers

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Sierra Leone 

A long series of unfortunate events have plagued Sierra Leone, giving them no chance in the group of death that was Group D. The trouble began with a match-fixing scandal that broke in the summer that left Sierra Leone without influential captain Ibrahim Kargbo. The subsequent Ebola outbreak forced the Leone Stars to play all their matches away from home. Comically, Sierra Leone could not find a country to host their matches and were forced to play their home AFCON qualifiers on opponent pitches. Finally the sacking of coach Johnny McKinstry completed the circus that was their qualification campaign and left Sierra Leone with very little chance in an already impossible group.