The national football team must continue to believe in qualifying for the 2019 CAN, in Cameroon, as nothing is lost, admitted yesterday Tuesday, in Luanda, the assistant coach of 1º de Agosto, Ivo Traça.
Speaking to Angop at the end of the game in which they lost, by 0-1, against the similar team of Mauritania, in a game of the third round of Group I qualifying the aforementioned competition, he said that the fact that the opponent remains at the top of the group, With 9 points, Angola still has a chance of reaching its goal.
He believes that if Angola raises its confidence levels and with the potential that the players have, they will be able to get the better of their next two opponents, Burkina Faso (second in the group, with six) and Botswana (last placed, without any points).
Zoran Maki’s assistant recognized that the Palancas Negras’ passing lines were not good, they made a lot of mistakes and were getting carried away by the opponent’s game, which is why they conceded the goal in the 18th minute.
“It won’t be easy for the Palancas Negras to beat Burkina Faso (second in the group, with six), but we will play at home. The coach now has time to make the necessary corrections to what didn’t go well in the last two games.
The Angolans will play again on the 18th of November, against the Burkinabes, at the 11 de Novembro Stadium, in Luanda, and will end this phase only on the 22nd of March of the next year, at the Tswanese’s ground.
The Palancas Negras are looking for their eighth appearance in the CAN finals, after South Africa (1996), Burkina Faso (1998), Egypt (2006), Ghana (2008), Angola (2010), Gabon and Equatorial Guinea (2012 ) and South Africa (2013).