And so we have arrived to the first big crossroads where we say goodbye to a large chunk of our U-23 AFCON talent pool. In total, we are paying farewell to 49 U-23s out of 136. Did someone from the axed teams make it to our last group stage rankings despite the sour exit?
Our rankings of the best 20 young performers in Round 2 of 2019 Africa Cup of Nations have arrived! And contrary to the initially outlined plans, we won't complicate things and won't be doing an update of the Round 1 rankings. Instead, we'll simply consider the Round 2 performances in isolation...
If there’s two things we can safely infer from what kind of articles appear on the internet, and in what numbers, it’s that people absolutely dig any sort of rankings coupled with stuff other people have learnt from stuff. Now, I am arguably not smug enough to assume people would jump at an opportunity to learn what I’ve learnt, but I definitely think I can do my own rankings...
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