Claim: Emmanuel Adebayor was scheduled to be in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations , also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons , was the 27th Africa Cup of Nations , the biennial football championship of Africa -LRB- CAF -RRB- . It was held in Angola , where it began on 10 January 2010 and concluded on 31 January .   In the tournament , the hosts Angola were to be joined by 15 nations who advanced from the qualification process that began in October 2007 and involved 53 African national teams . The withdrawal of Togo after a terrorist attack on their bus upon arriving for the tournament reduced the number of participating nations to 15 . A total of 29 games were played , instead of the scheduled 32 games . Egypt won the tournament , their seventh ACN title and an unprecedented third in a row , beating Ghana 1 -- 0 in the final .