Comoros were forced to call defender Chaker Alhadhur in goal for their Africa Cup of Nations closing-16 conflict with Cameroon.
The island country are competing at their first AFCON and brought about a first-rate disillusioned in getting out of the organization stage, but their fairytale has hastily become some thing of a nightmare. An harm to first-desire goalkeeper Salim Ben Boina turned into accompanied up by back-u.S.A.Ali Ahamada and Moyadh Ousseini trying out positive for COVID-19.
Comoros confirmed on Monday that Ahamada had back a bad coronavirus take a look at and rejoined the squad, sparking wish that Les Coelacantes might be able to face hosts Cameroon on some thing of a degree gambling subject. But reviews quickly began to emerge claiming the Confederation of African Football (CAF) turned into insisting Ahamada could not compete because he still needed to adhere to a 5-day period of isolation.
CAF did now not respond whilst contacted, but Comoros' starting XI blanketed Alhadhur because the crew's beginning goalkeeper, with the group's official Twitter account saying: "Following the decision of CAF not to authorize Ali Ahamada to play, it's far Chaker Alhadhur who may be the goalkeeper of the team."
The 30-12 months-old, who represents French club Ajaccio, is nominally a left-lower back however will start arguably the biggest healthy of his career between the posts.
