 the eritrea national football team is controlled by the eritrean national football federation (enff). it is nicknamed the red sea boys. it has neither qualified for the finals of the fifa world cup nor the africa cup of nations. local side red sea fc are the main supplier for the national football team of eritrea. ==history== an eritrean team was invited to a friendly tournament in sudan in 1992, the year before eritrea achieved independence. eritrea participated in the 1994 cecafa cup, organised by the council for east and central africa football association, even though the enff was not founded until 1996. the first full international was in the 1998 cecafa cup, the year the enff joined 
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