Soccer Football - 2018 World Cup Qualifications - Africa - Tunisia v Libya - Rades Olympic Stadium, Rades, Tunisia - November 11, 2017 Tunisian's Youssef Msakni in action with Libya's Sanad. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Tunisia were handed a relatively easy passage to their fifth World Cup but they went through the African preliminaries with a proficiency that augurs well for next year's finals in Russia.
The north African country - whose size and population of nearly 12 million belies a regular seat at African soccer's head table – won their group ahead of Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya and Guinea to qualify for the first time since 2006.
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