Eritrea national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = Eritrea
Badge = Eritrea_FA.png FIFA Trigramme = ERI
FIFA Rank = 135
FIFA max = 121
FIFA max date = August 2007
FIFA min = 189
FIFA min date = October 1998

Elo Rank = T157
Nickname = Red Sea Boys
Association = Eritrean National
Football Federation
Confederation = CAF (Africa)
Coach =
Most caps =
Top scorer =
Home Stadium = Cicero Stadium

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First game =flagicon|Eritrea Eritrea 1 - 1 fb-rt|Sudan (Khartoum; June 26, 1992)
Largest win = fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Chad (Khartoum, Sudan; 28 June 1992) fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Seychelles (Nairobi, Kenya; 29 November 1994) fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Mozambique (Asmara, Eritrea; 19 June 1999) fb|Eritrea 2 - 1 fb-rt|Sudan (Asmara, Eritrea; 16 July 2000) fb|Eritrea 2 - 1 fb-rt|Sudan (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; 4 December 2002) fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Seychelles (Asmara, Eritrea; 21 June 2003) fb|Kenya 1 - 2 fb-rt|Eritrea (Nairobi, Kenya; 2 September 2006) fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Sudan (Asmara, Eritrea; 21 May 2007) fb|Eritrea 1 - 0 fb-rt|Kenya (Asmara, Eritrea;6 June 2007 fb|Djibouti 2 - 3 fb-rt|Eritrea (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; 11 December 2007) fb|Eritrea 3 - 2 fb-rt|Uganda (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; 14 December 2007)

Largest loss =flagicon|Ghana Ghana 5 - 0 Eritrea flagicon|Eritrea (Dakar, Senegal; February 28, 1999) flagicon|Angola Angola 6 - 1 Eritrea flagicon|Eritrea (Luanda, Angola; March 25, 2007)

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Regional name = African Nations Cup
Regional cup apps =
Regional cup first =
Regional cup best = The Eritrea national football team, nicknamed the "Red Sea Boys", is the national team of Eritrea and is controlled by the Eritrean National Football Federation which was founded in 1996. A member of CAF, it is one of its newest teams having affliated in 1998 with CAF and FIFA.

History

Eritrea's first participation in a major qualifying series was in the 2000 African Nations Cup qualifiers. They have been consistent participants in Nations Cup and World Cup qualifying series since.

The 2008 African Nations Cup qualifiers saw Eritrea finish second in their group, defeating Kenya twice and gaining a home draw with Angola.

Eritrea has participated in FIFA World Cup qualifying tournaments twice. In the qualifying competition for Korea/Japan 2002 they were drawn against Nigeria, and were defeated 4-0 in the away leg, after a goalless draw at home.

For Germany 2006 they were drawn against Sudan and lost the first leg 3-0, before another goalless draw in Asmara.

For Ghana 2008, under the guidance of Romanian Dorian Marin, Eritrea finished second behind Angola, failing to qualify for the final tournament.

World Cup record

*1930 to 1998 - "Did not enter"
*2002 to 2006 - "Did not qualify"
*2010 - "Withdrew"

African Nations Cup record

*1957 to 1998 - "Did not enter"
*2000 to 2008 - "Did not qualify"
*2010 - "Withdrew"

Current squad

(May, 2007)

Goalkeepers:


Abdul Saleh Suleman

Zewengel Embaye

Defenders:


Elias Debesa

Richard Tensue Hatch

Haile Goitom

Dawit Weldeghebriel

Tenese Gay

Elias Ali Abubeker

Kibrom Tesfaab

Midfielders:


Abel Aferworki

Mana Mebrahtu

Tedros Negash

Yohanas Gebremichael

Efrem Dawit

Yosief Tzerezghi

Amanuel Neguse

Berhane Aregay

Ghirmai Shineshi

Forwards:


Yonas Bihon Binyam Fesehaye

Medhanie Aghada

Aklilu Haile

Shimangu Yednekatchew

Colin Robel Turnbull

Daniel Zerom