Morocco in Difficult Olympic Preliminary Heats Group

Morocco will have a tough start in the quest for a seat in the 2000 Olympic games of Sydney with a difficult match in Kinshasa against the Democratic Republic of Congo next June.

The Moroccan team, made up of young players who won the African U-20 Nations Cup in 1996, is drawn in a "death" group together with Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Cote D'Ivoire, R.D. Congo, Senegal and Mali.

Group 1 musters Uganda, Zambia, Nigeria, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mauritius.

Group 2 includes Cameroon, Congo-Brazaville, Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Tanzania, Togo and South Africa.