Ex-Sporting man helps hold off the Indomitable Lions in Cameroon - Angola | OneFootball

The Angola national team concluded the 2026 World Cup qualifying phase this Monday, October 13, with a 0-0 draw away to Cameroon, who must wait to see if they still make the play-off. Ary Papel, a former player for Sporting’s B team, was brought on in the match close to the 90th minute.

With no hopes of qualifying, the Palancas Negras put up a good fight against the team naturally favored to win the group, which was won by Cape Verde, and secured a goalless draw that leaves the ‘Indomitable Lions’ doing the math, which would have been much simpler had they won.

For now, with several matches still to be played in other pools, Cameroon are the second-best ranked of the nine groups, and only the top four point-getters advance to the next phase, so they must wait to see what happens in the remaining fixtures.

The African play-off will be held from November 13 to 16, in Morocco, with the strongest of the four teams representing the continent in the intercontinental play-off to be held in March 2026 against opponents from other continents, competing for the final spots.

Meanwhile, the Cape Verde national team sealed, on the afternoon of this Monday, October 13, an unprecedented qualification for the 2026 World Cup, by winning 3-0 at home against Eswatini, in the tenth and final round of Group D (Read HERE).

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