Nigeria’s Olympic team, Dream Team V, have been drawn in Group B along with Morocco, Algeria and Senegal in the final qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympics.
Host nation Egypt are in Group A along with South Africa, Gabon and Cote d’Ivoire.
The draw was conducted Saturday at the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo, Egypt.
The tournament, which kicks off in Cairo on November 26, will produce three automatic qualifiers for next year’s football event of the London Olympics.
The fourth best team will also have a chance to feature at the games as they would slug it out with an Asian representative in a play-off.
Nigeria made history when they became the first African team to win an Olympic Gold in 1996.
Cameroon repeated the feat four years later in Sydney, Australia.
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