Tunisia, first African coach at the World Cup Finals 1982: Algeria, first African team to win twice at the group stage (The first team eliminated after winning twice in the group stages of the FIFA World Cup) 1982: FIFA introduced a revised qualification system at subsequent World Cups in which the final two games in each group were played simultaneously after Algeria protesting against its controversial elimination from the group stage caused by the match named Disgrace of Gijón. 1986: Algeria, first African team to qualify twice in a row (1982 and 1986) 1986: Morocco, first African team to reach round of 16, also first African team to win their group in the group stages. 1990: Cameroon, first African team to win over the reigning champions Argentina 1-0 1990: Cameroon, first team in the history of the World Cup to win a match with nine players only, beating Argentina 1-0 1990: Cameroon, first African team to reach quarter-finals. 1990: Magdi Abdelghani of Egypt, first African to score a penalty at the World Cup in the 1–1 draw against the Netherlands 1994: Nigeria scored the biggest African win at the World Cup Finals, 3–0 over Bulgaria 1994: Roger Milla of Cameroon, the oldest player to score at World Cup Finals, aged 42, against Russia. (Russia won the match 6–1) 1998: Youssef Chippo of Morocco. first African to score an own goal at the World Cup, in the 2–2 draw against Norway on 10 June 1998. Two days later, Pierre Issa of South Africa scored an own goal in the 0–3 loss to France. 1998: Nigeria, first African team to qualify to the round of 16 for the 2nd time in its history of participations 2010: South Africa, first African country to host the World Cup 2010: Itumeleng Khune of South Africa, first African goalkeeper to receive a red card at the World Cup against Uruguay. (He was the second goalkeeper ever sent off at the World Cup Finals, after Italy's Gianluca Pagliuca at the 1994 FIFA World Cup) 2010: Ghana, first African team to reach the quarter finals after reaching the round of 16 in the previous world cup. 2010: Rabah Saâdane of Algeria, first African coach to coach twice at the World Cup Finals 2014: Algeria and Nigeria, first occasion in which two African teams qualified for round of 16 2014: Nigeria, first African team to qualify to the round