Ghana to start 2021 AFCON campaign against Morocco<\/b><\/p>\n 2021 AFCON to start from January 9 to February 6<\/p>\n VAR will be used in 2021 AFCON<\/b><\/p>\n The 2021 African Cup of Nations kicks starts on January 9, 2021, and the competing teams have already started arriving in the host country, Cameroon.<\/p>\n The 33rd edition of the second oldest continental tournament after Copa America was postponed from 2021 because of the rapid spread of the Coronavirus pandemic to January 2022.<\/p>\n After a long wait, the 2021 AFCON is finally set to begin in four days in Cameroon, with a record of 24 teams slugging it out for the continent’s top prize. <\/p>\n Like on other continents, national teams in Africa take pride in being addressed by their nicknames.<\/p>\n Many commentators and football pundits usually address these teams by these nicknames, and this article lists the aliases of all 24 participating teams and the origin of these names.<\/p>\n 1. Cameroon (Indomitable Lions)<\/p>\n The Lion is the national animal of Cameroon, and it is a symbol of strength and power. Indomitable means they are not easily defeated.<\/p>\n 2. Burkina Faso (The Stallions)<\/p>\n The White Stallion is the national symbol of Burkina Faso, and they are two Stallions in its coat of arms.<\/p>\n 3. Cape Verde (Blue Sharks)<\/p>\n Blue is the colour of their national jersey and Sharks because the country is associated with water (an Island).<\/p>\n 4. Ethiopia (Walias)<\/p>\n Nicknamed Walias, after the Walia ibex, an animal that is very predominant in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n 5. Guinea (Syli National)<\/p>\n The nickname simply means “national elephant”, and Guinea is home to the national Elephant, with the animal always represented in its coat of arms.<\/p>\n 6. Malawi (The Flames)<\/p>\n The nickname is from the Malawian flag that has flames of the rising sun.<\/p>\n 7. Senegal (Teranga Lions)<\/p>\n “Teranga” is a Wolof word that means welcome or generosity.<\/p>\n 8. Zimbabwe (The Warriors)<\/p>\n The nickname is from the Zimbabwean indigenous Zulu warrior.<\/p>\n 9. Comoros (The Coelecanths)<\/p>\n The coelacanth is a type of fish, and the tiny Island takes their nickname from it.<\/p>\n 10. Gabon (The Panthers)<\/p>\n The black Panther is the country’s national animal.<\/p>\n 11. Ghana (Black Stars)<\/p>\n The black star is always regarded as the West African’s country national symbol.<\/p>\n 12. Morroco (Atlas Lion)<\/p>\n The nickname is coined from the Barbary Lion, which is predominant in the North African country.<\/p>\n 13. Egypt (The Pharaohs)<\/p>\n The nickname is coined from the ancient ruler of Egypt.<\/p>\n 14. Guinea-Bissau (The African Wild dogs)<\/p>\n The African wild dog is a wild canine which is a native species to sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n 15. Nigeria (The Super Eagles)<\/p>\n Their nickname is from the country’s official football crest, and the eagle represents strength.<\/p>\n 16. Sudan (Nile Crocodiles)<\/p>\n The Nile Crocodiles are present in many countries in including Sudan.<\/p>\n 17. Algeria (Desert Foxes or The Fennecs)<\/p>\n The Fennec Fox is the national animal of the country and the desert because a large portion of the country is a desert region.<\/p>\n 18. Sierra Leone (The Leones stars)<\/p>\n From the country’s shortened name.<\/p>\n 19. Ivory Coast (The Elephants)<\/p>\n The nickname is gotten from the African forest elephants, which are predominant in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n 20. Equatorial Guinea (The National Thunder)<\/p>\n Their nickname is gotten from the thunderstorms of the equatorial climate.<\/p>\n 21. Gambia (Scorpions)<\/p>\n They are called “Scorpions” because of the abundance of emperor scorpions in the West African country.<\/p>\n 22. Mali (The Eagles)<\/p>\n Their nickname is gotten from the traditional hunting eagles of the Tuareg tribe of Mali.<\/p>\n 23. Mauritania (The Almoravids)<\/p>\n Their nickname is gotten from the ancient Almoravids dynasty, which was an empire in ancient Morroco in the 11th century.<\/p>\n 24. Tunisia (Carthage Eagles)<\/p>\n The nickname is gotten from the ancient Carthaginian empire of Northwest Africa and the Islands of the Western Mediterranean Sea of which modern-day Tunisia is situated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations start on January, 9, 2022 Ghana to start 2021 AFCON campaign against Morocco 2021 AFCON to start from January 9 to February 6 VAR will be used in 2021 AFCON The 2021 African Cup of Nations kicks starts on January 9, 2021, and the competing teams have already started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34870790.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations start on January, 9, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n