The return matches of the CHAN 2024 qualifiers, the equivalent of the CAN for local players, began this Wednesday, December 25 and allowed us to find a 2nd qualifier for the final phase of the tournament.
After the Morocco, qualified without playing following the multiple packages in the North Africa Zone, this is the Sudan who validated his ticket. Already winners 2-0 away in the first leg, the Crocodiles du Nul once again got the better of Ethiopia (2-1), whom they “hosted” in Benina in Libya. In the rain during part of the match, Kanti (16th) and Abdelrahman (69th) scored for the Sudanese who did not really doubt, even when Bekele had equalized the time by five minutes (64th).
CHAN-CAN double for Sudan
3rd in the African Nations Championship twice but eliminated in the group stage of the previous edition, Sudan will therefore be there from February 1 to 28, 2025 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and complete a great year after also qualifying for CAN 2025 with the same local player base.
A performance all the more remarkable given that the country has been ravaged by civil war since April 2023, which forced Sudan's two flagship clubs, Al-Hilal and El-Merreikh, to go into exile in the Mauritanian championship.
Also present at the last edition of CHAN, Ethiopia however failed to continue. The rest of the qualifications will continue on Thursday with Burundi–Uganda (first leg) then Friday with Niger–Togo (1-1 first leg).
The Senegalese holder, the double Congolese champion, Ivory Coast, Mali, Cameroon, Nigeria and even Guinea will play their destiny this weekend after various results recorded in the first leg.
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