Barcelona’s Samual Eto’o and Yaya Toure along with Tottenham’s Didier Zakora can hardly wait for the opportunity to contest football’s biggest competition in their home continent. South Africa 2010 is a competition that no African wants to miss and players like Eto’o are excited to show off just what Africa has to offer.

The stresses and strains of European league football mean that African footballers playing in these competitions often don’t get much time to return to their home countries. However, these three footballers will be doing their upmost to make sure that their respective nations will be present in South Africa in 2010.