Abedi Pele, the former Ghana international player, predicts that African country can be the winner of the upcoming 2010 football world cup. This 44 year old legendary player of Africa is the active member of FIFA’s Football Committee as well as the technical committee. He stated this after evaluating their great performances at the notable Confederations Cup.

According to him, four teams from African continent could be the quarter finalists, two of them could attain the last four positions and one could be the part of grand finale. Till now, the football World Cup record of African continent is not quite good, as they had made up to the last eight teams.

However, the three times winner of African footballer of the year is quite optimistic about the next year South Africa

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win. According to this Champions League winner, “African teams are coming to this African World Cup to showcase their talent and this is our best chance of getting close to the trophy itself.”

He also added, that, “In the history of the

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only Brazil has won it outside their own continent, in Sweden in 1958 and in Japan in 2002.” Pele’s optimism is quite visible in his statement, “But here in Africa we will definitely have one team that will go far -- and when I say go far I mean as far as getting the trophy. When I say this people laugh, but I believe it.” Pele also admits the 2010 South Africa Football World Cup as special and considers it the finest chance of bringing the glorious