No African team has ever reached the World Cup semifinals and the 2018 edition was the continent's worst since 1982
The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has convened a meeting in the Moroccan capital Rabat to scrutinise the poor performance by African teams at the just-ended Fifa World Cup in Russia.
All five African teams failed to get past the group stages of the soccer Olympiad.
Senegal, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt arrived in Russia bidding to hurdle past the quarter-final benchmark set by Cameroon in 1990, Senegal (2002) and Ghana at the 2010 tournament.
But Caf witnessed a backslide, inviting more questions than answers about African football whose image was left severely tainted by the Russia outing.