In football, it is the start of the 3rd day of qualifiers for the next World Cup in the Africa zone. Tunisia beat Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday evening: the Eagles of Carthage won thanks to a penalty at the end of the match. The Equatorial Guineans, who got off to a very good start in these qualifications, with two victories in two matches, are now dead last in Group H, especially since at the end of May, FIFA decided to sanction Nzalang Nacional, deducting 6 points from them. on the green carpet… And the reason was announced on June 3: Emilio Nsué, star striker and captain of the team, was in fact ineligible, and had been for more than ten years! A hard blow for the selection and the top scorer of the last CAN.
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He had hurt Côte d’Ivoire very badly. And very badly to all his opponents during the CAN. Emilio Nsuélightning bolt from Nzalang, had struck five times, becoming the competition’s top scorer at the age of 34.
But the tumultuous love story between the striker and Equatorial Guinea now seems to be over. Born in Palma de Mallorca, to a Spanish mother and an Equatorial Guinean father, the current Intercity striker began his international career with Spain’s youth teams in the 2010s…
Before putting on the Nzalang Nacional jersey. This will push FIFA to sanction Equatorial Guinea for the first time in 2013. The world body had not validated the change of sporting nationality of the player.
And in fact never did so: it is impossible to know why she waited more than ten years to re-examine the file. However, the sanctions are very heavy: 6 penalty points in the race for the World Cup. And six months of sanction in selection for Emilio Nsué…
A hard blow for his team, which has never taken part in the World Cup. And for the player, who had opened the door to a return to the selection, after having settled his accounts at the end of January, and while he was the only Equatorial Guinean scorer in these qualifiers, scoring the winning goals against Namibia and Liberia.
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