Eagles players missing as CAF releases AFCON best XI
As part of stock taking after the just concluded AFCON in Cameroon, Confederation of African Football has announced the tournaments best eleven. Expectedly finalists of the tournament top dominate the list with friendly rivals Sadio Mane and Mohammed Salah occupying vintage position.
The announcement of the team was done on Monday evening and it was a collection of the tournament’s best players as determined by the Technical Study Group which incidentally has newly appointed Super Eagles coach Emmanual Amunike as member. The group was charged with the responsibility of assessing the matches played during the tournament and choosing the various best players from all the matches that were contested during the competition.
The likes of Achraf Hakimi of Morocco, Edmund Tapsoba of Burkina Faso and Vincent Aboubakar of Cameroon all made the starting eleven. Although Nigeria dazzled in the opening matches of the tournament none of the players made it into the team even as the Eagles failed to go beyond the round of 16.
Comoros captain, Youssouf M’Changama was named as part of the substitutes together with Collins Fai, Karl Ekambi Toko and Andre Anguissa, all of Cameroon.
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In all, the team was made up of players from Cameroon, Morocco, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Egypt and Comoros and it was set up in a 4-3-3 formation.
The 33rd edition of the AFCON ended with Senegal beating Egypt 4-2 on penalties on Sunday to lift their first title..