Benin national football team
The Beninese football team ( also French Les Ecureuiles, the squirrels ), the Football Selection of Benin and was controlled by the Fédération de Football Béninoise. The team was known as the national team of Dahomey until 1975, since earlier Benin Dahomey said.
Due to the poor performance at the Africa Cup of 2010 ( from in the first round ), the national team was disbanded on 9 February 2010 with immediate effect. However, Benin later joined only half a year already again to qualify for the Africa Cup of 2012.
The team has never qualified for the World Cup, but in 2004, 2008 and 2010 for the Africa Cup.
Known player
The companies operating in Europe Beninese national team are - due to the language - mostly in France under contract.
- Romuald Boco captain plays for Sligo Rovers. Boco is known as "King of Benin ".
- Alain Gaspoz played from 1992 to 2007 in Swiss professional clubs
- Moussa Latoundji played with Energie Cottbus in the Bundesliga.
- Anicet Adjamossi active and known in France defender.
- Oumar Tchomogo was, inter alia, at EA Guingamp under contract.
- Moudachirou Amadou played for Energie Cottbus, Hannover 96, FC St. Pauli and the Karlsruhe SC
- Razak Omotoyossi plays for Helsingborgs IF, where he meets with great success in the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08
- Jocelyn Ahoueya plays since the 2004/2005 season at FC Sion
- Mickaël Poté plays since the 2011/2012 season at the SG Dynamo Dresden
- Hyacinthe Sèwanou plays since 2012 with FC Dieppe
Tournaments
World Cup
In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil Benin met first on Algeria, Mali and Rwanda, against which the team could not prevail, and even before the penultimate game due to the victory of Algeria on 16 June 2013, Rwanda had no chance to qualified lifi decorate.
African Cup of Nations
African Nations Cup
- 2009: retired in qualifying
- 2011: did not participate
- 2014: withdrew in qualifying