Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan football team has the support of more than five hundred visitors from the country, for the game against the similar team from Nigeria, on Friday (6 pm), at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium, in Abidjan, in the quarter- CAN`2023 final, which will be held in Côte d`Ivoire.
The first group of supporters of the Palancas Negras (name of the national team), totaling 150, leaves Luanda at 8 am on Friday, on a flight with the airline TAAG, has lunch in the capital of Invoirense and goes to the countryside, at 15 hours.
In an organization of “Torcida”, the sports branch of Empresa Nova Energia, the excursionists, who had to pay the sum of eight hundred (800.000.00 KZ) thousand Kwanzas, entitled to an Angolan national team jersey, flag and backpack, return in the same day to the country, after the game, his manager, Nelson Cantos.
In addition to this initiative, the flag carrier (TAAG) and Banco BCI also come together to transport four hundred and forty (440) passengers to the African Cup of Nations (CAN’2023), which takes place in Côte d’Ivoire, according to a joint statement, without further details.
In this 34th edition of the competition, Angola drew in the first round of Group D with Algeria (1-1), contenders for the title, followed by triumphs against Mauritania (3-2), Burkina Faso (2-0) and Namibia (3-0), which made it possible to reach this stage.
The CAN, initially scheduled for 2023, was transferred by the African Football Confederation (CAF) to this year, due to heavy rain in Côte d’Ivoire.
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