Kind draw for Esperance in African Champions League defence


Soccer Football - African Champions League Group Stage Draw - Nile Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Cairo, Egypt - December 28, 2018 Anthony Baffoe, CAF deputy general secretary during the CAF Champions League Group Stage Draw REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

CAIRO (Reuters) - Tunisian holders Esperance were handed a favourable pool for the group stages of the African Champions League when Friday's draw presented them with two trips to southern Africa.

The Tunis side's major rivals in Group B will be 1995 champions Orlando Pirates, of South Africa, while they also take on Horoya FC, from Guinea, and Zimbabwe champions FC Platinum.

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