French coach Didier Gomes da Rosa, who took over last November from his compatriot Corentin Martins as Mauritania coach, released on Thursday a provisional 30-players squad for the upcoming TotalEnergies AFCON, Cameroon 2021.
The team is expected to be trimmed down to 28 after the completion of their training camp in Abu-Dhabi.
16-year-old AS Douanes young midfielder Beyatt Lekweiry became the youngest player in Gomes selection. The teenager has grown accustomed to skipping stages, having been selected for the Mauritania U-20 national team at the age of 15, when he played in the U-20 Arab Cup in Saudi Arabia in 2020.
Besides Beyatt, Da Rosa gave a debut call to three more players. They are Pape Ibnou Ba, French Le Havre forward, Souleymane Doukara (Giresunspor Kulubu, Turkey), and defender Souleymane Karamako (Nancy, France).
This will be their second AFCON after that of 2019, and they will play in Group F with Mali, Gambia, and Tunisia.
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