Comoros Islands will play the round of 16 without any of their three goalkeepers

The selection of Comoros Islands, Participating for the first time in its history in the Africa Cup that is played in Cameroon, will face the hosts on Monday in a match corresponding to the round of 16 of the tournament.

and it will without any of his three goalkeepers summoned, which will force the coach to line up a field player under the sticks. Two of the three goals that are part of the call, Moyadh Ousseni and Ali Ahamada, is it so confined after having tested positive for Covid, a virus that affects a dozen members of the delegation. And the third, Salim Ben Boina, suffer a injury in the shoulder that already prevented him from finishing the last game of the group stage.

Thus, and except for the miraculous recovery of Ben Boina, Comoros will face a historic match with an outfield player in their goal. Jean-Daniel Padovani, goalkeeping coach of the African team, stressed in statements collected by Le Monde that “we cannot enter the field being defeatists. It was historic that we qualified for the final phase, that we won a game, that we got into the round of 16. .. Y it will be equally historic if a team plays a game with a field player under goal. We are in history.”

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