Africa-Press – Angola. In this challenge of the opening round, the Angolans certainly intend to start the competition with a triumph to fulfill their objective of reaching the semi-finals. The U-17s will need tactical discipline during the match and avoid excesses of individualism for game organization.
For this competition, the coach of the National Team, Mitó da Silva, was left without six players from the “hard core”, due to the magnetic resonance examination (MRI) carried out last month at Clínica Multiperfil, in Luanda. Despite this situation, Mitó da Silva summoned three new athletes for some vacancies left by ineligible footballers.
Despite this situation, the technical staff took a group that can dignify Angola’s presence in the tournament, whose objective is to qualify for the semi-finals, according to Mitó da Silva. At this level, the two teams faced each other, for the last time, on the 27th of July 2018, with the Angolans triumphing, by 7-0, at the Saint François Xavier Stadium, in Mauritius, for the semi-finals of the Cosafa Cup .
After the absence in the last edition, in 2020, in the city of Maseru, Lesotho, Namibia returns to the competition with the intention of improving the performance of the competition disputed, in 2018, in Gaborone. last position of Group A, without points.
The Namibian technical team hopes to make a prosperous, ambitious comeback and maybe try to mix up the accounts in the group.
At 19:00h, at 19:00, the Malawian national team faces Botswana’s team in the same sports venue, in a match for the conclusion of the opening round of the series.
For the semi-finals of the tournament, the top two teams from series A and B qualify.
In the first draw, the competition had nine selections, divided into three series, but with the withdrawal of Mauritius it was necessary to reformulate the competition dispute molds. The organization carried out a new draw and divided the teams into two groups, with four selections in each series.
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