While the Comorians face, Monday, Cameroon in the final of the competition, two of their goalkeepers are affected by the virus and the third is injured.
Le Monde with AFP
The COVID-19 can help create Ubues. This is the case at the Afirus Cup of Nations (CAN) football. The Comoros team, for its first participation in the continental competition, thus plays bad luck and is strongly diminished before its final 8th match against Cameroon, Monday, January 24: twelve members of the Comorian delegation are positive. Two of his goalkeepers, Moyadh Ousseini and Ali Ahamada.
The problem is that the third, Salim Ben Beina, holder against Morocco and Ghana, injured his shoulder and could not finish the third game of chickens. The whole question is now who will be the last rampart of the team Monday. “The guardian, we have not yet determined it, and even though it was the case I would not say it,” said Sunday the coach of goalkeepers, Jean-Daniel Padovani.
Ben Beina, if he is delivered, could be aligned. Or it will be a field player. In order to designate his doorman against the indomitable Lions, the staff of the coelacanthes “has decided to gather all the valid players and to flat the situation,” said Jean-Daniel Padovani, grateful that “we will never find the perfect guardian” .
The midfielder Nadjim Abdou explained that it should not be him. “We can not wait guard for an 8th finale,” he explained. While adding however: “But we are there for the nation, if it is necessary to make sacrifices, me or another one will know it. The one in the cages will fight like the ten players on the field”.
How did the Comorians contracted COVID? Perhaps because at the time of the winning goal against Ghana (3-2), on January 18, “we jumped on it, staff, leaders,” says Jean-Daniel Padovani. But “the other teams also jump on it” he continues.
The coach prefers “Do not go back to the field being defeatist”. “It was historic that the Comoros are qualified for the CAN, historical they earn a match, historical to access the 8th finale. It’s as historical if a football team plays a match with a player (field) ) In the cages, “he concludes,” we are in history “.