 the guinea national football team, nicknamed syli nationale (national elephant), is the national team of guinea and is controlled by the fÃ©dÃ©ration guinÃ©enne de football. they have never qualified for the world cup finals, and their best finish in the africa cup of nations was second in the 1976. the team reached the quarter-finals in three successive tournaments (2004, 2006, 2008). ==history== guinea made their footballing debut in an away friendly on 9 may 1962, losing 2â1 against togo. in 1963, guinea entered its first qualification campaign for an africa cup of nations, the 1963 tournament in ghana. drawn in a two-legged qualifier against nigeria, guinea drew the first leg 2â2 away on 27 july, and on 6 october won 1â0 at home to win 3â2 on aggregate. they were later disqualified for using guinean officials in the second leg, and nigeria went through to the finals in their place. in 1965, guinea entered qualification for the africa cup of nations in tunisia and was placed in group a with senegal and mali. on 28 february they lost 2â0 in senegal before beating them 3â0 at home
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