Times Of Swaziland: NO STARS FOR SENEGAL IN COSAFA

NO STARS FOR SENEGAL IN COSAFA
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Ntokozo Magongo on 27/06/2022 08:05:00


MBABANE – Africa’s giants, Senegal will be without their superstars when
they play in the COSAFA Cup.
Senegal who will start their campaign in the quarterfinals will be without
Germany’s Bayern Munich new signee Sadio Mane, Italy’s Napoli defender
Kalidou Koulibaly, Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and PSG’s Ismaila
Sarr,among others. The squad was announced by Coach Mousa Cisse. The Council of
Southern Africa Football Association (COSAFA) tournament gets underway from July
5, with the finals to be played on the 17th in Durban, South Africa. Sihlangu
will have to win group B to face Senegal in the quarterfinals. They face
Lesotho, Malawi and Mauritius in Group B. The national team, Sihlangu are
already in camp, in preparation of the tournament and they will be leaving next
week as they began their campaign on July 6 against Mauritius in their opening
match.
Senegal called up 26 players while the COSAFA Executive Committee and organising
committee for competitions took the decision to increase the squad sizes for the
teams to 23. The squads had previously been limited to 20 players, but in line
with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) practice of allowing 23 members
at their major competitions, COSAFA has followed suit.