The Africa Cup begins with a scandal over Covid controls

The Africa Cup Nations (CAN), which will begin this Sunday with the meeting between the host Cameroon Y Burkina Faso, will start with controversy after the Burkinabe player’s complaint Bertrand traore and the assistant coach, Firmin Sanou, of irregularities in the tests to which they were subjected on Friday.

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The captain of the national team Burkina Faso, who militates in the Aston Villa, and the technician described in the press conference prior to the meeting as “scandal” the situation they experienced when passing the tests for the detection of Covid-19.

“We have four or five cases of Covid, mainly of starting players, we are not going to give names,” he said Sanou, who indicated that they have confidence in those who take to the pitch before the host team and that he criticized the organization for what they had to live.

“The CAF clearly told us that it was not her”

“Yesterday morning (Friday) a medical team showed up at the hotel to do tests, but when we tried to find out who had sent it, the CAF clearly told us that it was not her, so we refused to do the tests “explained the second Burkinabe coach.

“So we had to wait, first until the afternoon, then until evening for the CAF medical team to arrive. He told us that he would arrive in the afternoon to do the tests before going to training. But finally he arrived at eleven o’clock in the afternoon. night, “he said.

Traore He added that “instead of doing a PCR, which should have been done in the morning to meet the 48-hour deadline, they forced us to do an antigen test and this morning we found out that we have positive cases”, and SanouIn this regard, he indicated that they are going to ask CAF for explanations about the various irregularities.

Visit of Milla and Eto’o

Cameroon, whose team received this Saturday the visit of a whole myth like Roger mile and of Samuel eto’o, current president of the Federation, will face Burkina Faso in the first CAN meeting this Sunday starting at 5:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. GMT) at the Paul Biya stadium in Olembe, in Yaoundé.