Didier Drogba may lead a star-studded cast list at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations but this year's tournament which gets underway on Saturday is going to miss a lot of Africa's top footballers.
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While Ivory Coast captain Drogba and the Toure brothers Kolo and Yaya and company head for South Africa, the likes of Samuel Eto'o, Demba Ba and Papiss Demba Cisse are all missing, forced to watch the action on TV.
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Ba and Cisse failed to join the party when Senegal were kicked out of the 2013 tournament by the organsiers CAf as punishment for crowd trouble which flared up at the qualifier against Drogba's Ivorians.
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Senegal's diqualification must have been greeted with quiet relief, though, at the pair's respective Premier League clubs.
Too bad their countries did not qualify.I would have love to see Samuel Etoo play football again