Omar Mascarell will participate in the African Cup with Equatorial Guinea, after his team took advantage of Liberia’s victory against Togo in Monrovia. This will be the first major competition for the Mallorca midfielder, who Today he played 90 minutes against Algeria, in a match that the Guineans tied 0-0 in New Malabo stadium in front of 15,000 spectators. It’s a good result since Algeria is first in the group, with 13 points in five matches.
Omar Mascarell, with all five on his back he put in a good performance and played a key role in the save The Greens, that until now they had won all the matches played and that they had a record of 11 goals for and only one against. Guinea will play again next Sunday against Togo, in a meeting of no importance since he mathematically obtained one of the two places for the African Cup.
The goalkeeper coach of the Guinean team is, on the other hand, a old acquaintance of Mallorcan supporters, the antequerano Juan Calatayud, who made 13 appearances for Real Mallorca between 2011 and 2013 before leaving for Hungarian club Videoton. Catalayud published a tweet showing the joy of the Guinean team after the mathematical confirmation of their ranking.
This is how Nzalang celebrates its qualification for the African Cup! 🇫🇷🕺🏾
– AFRICA FUTBOLERA (@AfricaFutbolera) November 13, 2024
Omar Mascarell was the first of seven Mallorcan internationals to come on during this break from the national team. Next will be Muriqi, Samú Costa and Robert Navarrowho play tomorrow with Kosovo, Portugal and Spain U21, respectively.
Match schedule
- larin: Suriname-Canada (Nov. 16) and Canada-Suriname (Nov. 20)
- Mojica: Uruguay-Colombia (Nov. 16) and Colombia-Ecuador (Nov. 20)
- Greif: Sweden-Slovakia (Nov. 16) and Slovakia-Latvia (Nov. 19)
- Robert Navarro: Spain U21-England (Nov. 15) and Spain U21-Denmark (Nov. 19)
- Muriqi: Romania-Kosovo (November 15) and Kosovo-Lithuania (November 18)
- Omar Mascarell: Equatorial Guinea-Algeria (0-0) and Togo-Guinea (Nov. 17)
- Samú Costa: Portugal-Poland (November 15) and Croatia-Portugal (November 18).
