Uganda, Dec. 2 -- The five teams currently representing Africa on the grandest stage in Qatar are walking in the footsteps of some illustrious predecessors, but which African team is the best of all time thus far?

Ghana 2010

To date the most recent African team to reach the quarterfinals, Ghana were the only African success story of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa -- the first and only on African soil.

Despite (again) being drawn into a tough group alongside Germany, Serbia and Australia, a pair of Asamoah Gyan penalties were enough to secure four points and take the Black Stars through.

In the round of 16, Gyan again proved the hero, striking a 93rd-minute extra-time winner against the United States to set up a quarterfinal with a...