The FIFA World Cup statistics clearly show that despite the emergence of a number of potential African stars, the overall standards of football in Africa at the national level is going down.It was twenty years ago that Cameroun took the world by storm and made an impressive show in Italia ’90 by reaching the quarter finals. It took 12 more years until another African country, Senegal, made a similar spectacular show in Korea/Japan 2002 where they caused a sensation by defeating France, the defending champions. more »