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    RADES (Tunisia) - After twelve highly competitive games in the first round of the African World Cup Qualifiers in Rades, Tunisia, we wanted to find out who the standout players were.

    As the statistics show, eight of the head coaches whom we invited to share their thoughts selected their best players.

    Coaches weren't allowed to name players from their own teams.

    See below for the best performers, as selected by the head coaches.

    Nedeljko Asceric (GUINEA)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Omar Abada

    Tunisia

    19.7

    Both Tut Gach

    South Sudan

    19.7

    Ivan Almeida

    Cape Verde

    17.0

    David McCormack

    Rwanda

    26.5

    Makur Maker

    South Sudan

    11.7

    Yves Murenzi (Rwanda)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Omar Abada

    Tunisia

    19.7

    Shannon Evans

    Guinea

    17.3

    Makur Maker

    South Sudan

    11.7

    Firas Lahiani

    Tunisia

    18.7

    Landry Nnoko

    Cameroon

    13.7

    Luol Deng (South Sudan)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Omar Abada

    Tunisia

    19.7

    Shannon Evans

    Guinea

    17.3

    Jeremiah Hill

    Cameroon

    16.0

    David McCormack

    Rwanda

    26.5

    Ivan Almeida

    Cape Verde

    17.0

    Emanuel Trovoada (Cape Verde)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Both Tut Gach

    South Sudan

    19.7

    Shannon Evans

    Guinea

    17.3

    Firas Lahiani

    Tunisia

    18.7

    David McCormack

    Rwanda

    26.5

    Makur Maker

    South Sudan

    11.7

    Abdulrahman Mohamed (Nigeria)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Both Tut Gach

    South Sudan

    19.7

    Shannon Evans

    Guinea

    17.3

    Oussama Marnaoui

    Tunisia

    7.0

    Ivan Almeida

    Cape Verde

    17.0

    Dieudonne Ndizeye

    Rwanda

    18.3

    Adel Tlatli (Tunisia)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Souleymane Boum Jr

    Guinea

    17.7

    Shannon Evans

    Guinea

    17.3

    Morris Udeze

    Nigeria

    20.3

    Ousmane Drame

    Guinea

    12.7

    David McCormack

    Rwanda

    26.5

    Alfred Aboya (Cameroon)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Mohamed Sadi

    Libya

    16.3

    Deng Adel

    South Sudan

    17.0

    Joel Almeida

    Cape Verde

    10.3

    Ghayth Almaghribi

    Libya

    15.0

    Kur Kuath

    South Sudan

    18.0

    Sam Vincent (Libya)

    Players

    Team

    Efficiency per game

    Jeremiah Hill

    Cameroon

    16.0

    Makur Maker

    South Sudan

    11.7

    Ivan Almeida

    Cape Verde

    17.0

    David McCormack

    Rwanda

    26.5

    Firas Lahiani

    Tunisia

    18.7

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