Official: Sporting player called up for AFCON, headache for Rui Borges | OneFootball

It’s official. Geny Catamo is part of the list of 25 players selected by Chiquinho Conde, Mozambique’s coach, for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) and will be unavailable for Sporting, since the tournament takes place between December 21 and January 18 in Morocco.

As a result, until the day of the final in Rabat, there will be six or seven matches, if Sporting reaches the League Cup final, that the player will miss. Thus, the match against Bayern in the Champions League and Saturday’s game against Aves SAD will be the last two for the number 10 before joining the national team, leaving some doubt as to whether the winger will be available for the clash with Santa Clara on the 18th in the Portuguese Cup.

Mozambique is in Group F of the 35th edition of the international competition, along with Cameroon, Gabon, and Ivory Coast. The “Mambas” will make their debut in the tournament against the Ivorians, the current champions, on December 24, Christmas Eve.

After suffering the foul that led to Gianluca Prestanni’s sending off in the final stages of the match against Benfica, Geny Catamo left Estádio da Luz limping, as was visible when the player passed through the ‘mixed zone’, but he will travel with his teammates to Munich.

This season, wearing the Sporting jersey, Geny Catamo – valued at 15 million euros – has already played 18 matches. In the 923 minutes he has spent on the pitch, the left-footer has scored just one goal and assisted his teammates on three occasions.

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