ANGOLA WORLD CUP TEAM 2006

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The Angola national football team, nicknamed Palancas Negras, ("Black Impalas") is the national team of Angola and is controlled by the Federação Angolana de Futebol. On October 8, 2005, Angola qualified for the World Cup for the first time ever.

Luis Oliveira Goncalves took over as coach of the Angola national football team in 2003, after successful appearances with the Angola Under-20 national football team. The coach is the nation's favourite and the team managed to finish in first place of Group 4 Football World Cup 2006 (qualification), ahead of traditional African football powers like the Nigeria national football team and the Zimbabwe national football team. Group 4 was considered one of the toughest during the Qualifiers.

Captain Fabrice Akwa scored some crucial goals, including the winners against Rwanda in the last game, and in the game against the Nigeria national football team. Akwa is the fans' favourite having scored 30 goals in 67 international appearances. "This is the first time we are in the finals and we want to show off our football. We also want to show there is more to Angola than just war and oil," Akwa said.

Angola's best known player is the striker Pedro Mantorras, who plays for the Portuguese team Benfica.

Key Players

• Pedro Mantorras - SL Benfica

• Rui Manuel Marques - Leeds United

• Nando Rafael - Borussia Monchengladbach

• Marco Airosa - FC Barreirense

• Kali - FC Barreirense

• Fabrice Akwa - Al Wakra

• Sergio Lomba - FC Penafiel

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1982 - Did not enter

• 1986 to 2002 - Did not qualify

• 2006 - Qualified

African Nations Cup record

• 1957 to 1980 - Did not enter

• 1982 - Did not qualify

• 1984 - Did not qualify

• 1986 - Did not enter

• 1988 to 1992 - Did not qualify

• 1994 - Did not enter

• 1996 - Round 1

• 1998 - Round 1

• 2000 to 2004 - Did not qualify

• 2006 - Round 1

2006 World Cup Squad

Head coach: Luis Oliveira Goncalves

LINKS:

• Angola World Cup news

• http://angola.worldcupblog.org

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1. During the World Cup, many of the stadiums will be officially known by different names, as FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadium names unless the stadium sponsors are also official FIFA sponsors. For example, Allianz Arena will be known during the competition as "FIFA World Cup Stadium, Munich" (or in German: "FIFA WM-Stadion München"). These new names are reflected in the table. Of the twelve hosting stadia, all but one (Leipzig) are in the former West Germany.

2. Draw seedings

3. http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/i/eu/fifa/regen.pdf FIFA official tournament rules (PDF)

4. Guardian article on 'Group of Death'

5. FOX Sports article on 'Group of Death'

6. Official 2006 FIFA World Cup rules

7. FIFA report on official song

8. World Cup ticket sales, Which?

9. ESPN Star broadcasts in Asian countries such as Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand.

10. STAR TV description of ESPN

11. ESPN Star corporate information

12. For the first time ever, the state broadcaster RAI lost the bid for broadcasting. However, by law, it must broadcast all of the Italy national team games.

13. HD will be available for free both in the terrestrial network and by Canal Digital satellite

• Official FIFA World Cup site

• Official World Cup Schedule

• Official List of World Cup Stadiums

• Official World Cup Charity

• World Cup 2006 News from Germany

• BBC 2006 World Cup coverage

• UEFA homepage

• UEFA European Women's Championship

• UEFA Standings

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