"Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands and the winner of the tie between Equatorial Guinea and Madagascar: it couldn’t have worked out better for us," Sami Trabelsi, Tunisia coach.
Tunisia are the heavyweight team in African qualifying Group B and will be hard to beat in a section also containing Cape Verde Islands, Sierra Leone and the winner of the first round tie between Equatorial Guinea and Madagascar.
Continental giants Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire were handed tough-looking tasks on the path to Brazil 2014, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup hosts South Africa have a regional derby on their hands against Botswana.
Congo DR club TP Mazembe again proved to be the darlings of African club football by winning a fourth continental crown over the weekend. Join FIFA.com for a look back at the 2010 edition of the CAF Champions League.
Tunisian side Esperance are determined to throw everything they have at holders TP Mazembe in order to turn over a five-goal deficit in the second leg of the final this weekend.
Ngandu Kasongo and Given Singuluma scored two goals apiece to lift DR Congo's TP Mazembe Englebert to a 5-0 first-leg final win over Esperance, which all but assures them of their second successive continental title.