Soccer Football - Africa Cup of Nations - Semi Final - Cameroon v Egypt - Olembe Stadium, Yaounde, Cameroon - February 3, 2022 Egypt's Mohamed Salah in action REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon added their name to an increasingly long list of hosts who have failed at the Africa Cup of Nations, eliminated at the semi-final stage on Thursday on post-match penalties.
Not since 2006, when Egypt were hosts, has the home team been able to win the tournament as Cameroon stretched the unsuccessful sequence to eight successive tournaments as they bowed out.
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