Black Stars Avoid Nigeria In Play-off Draw

Africa's top five seeds for the final qualifying for the 2014 World Cup have been revealed with Ghana amongst the top five. The Black Stars and four other group winners from the second round qualifiers, Ivory Coast, Algeria and Nigeria and a fifth team to be decided by the FIFA ranking following Cape Verde's disqualification for fielding an ineligible player will avoid each other in the draw for Africa's third round qualifying. The Confederation of African Football -CAF, announced the seeding on Thursday. Ghana can draw either Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Senegal or Cameroon for the two-leg ties, with the winners going to the finals in Brazil. With the seeding revealed following Thursday's release of the FIFA World ranking, all is set for the final round draw which will take place in Cairo on 16 September to determine the pairings.