JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Sudan will make their World Cup debut on Wednesday at the start of Africa’s campaign to find five teams to represent the continent at the World Cup in Russia in 2018.
The preliminaries, involving 53 of the 54 African football-playing countries, begin on the holiday island of Mahe on Wednesday afternoon when the Seychelles, the continent’s smallest nation, host Burundi in the first leg of their knockout round tie.
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