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Senegal will honour their appointment with the South Korea national team in the first week of November. (30.10.2001)
Senegal will honour their appointment with the South Korea national team in the first week of November.
It was decided on Friday that The Lions of Teranga will go to South Korea, but coach Bruno Metsu may have to do without some regulars from the French League.
The Senegalese Football Federation`s administrative director Oumar Ndiaye told the press yesterday: "We will go to South Korea. The signs are encouraging. Lens will release striker El Hadji Diouf and defender Fernand Coly to us and we have been talking to other clubs. We will leave Paris for South Korea on November 5."
Doubts had surrounded the game after some French clubs expressed their reluctance to let their players leave for the long trip to the Far East following FIFA`s stand on France`s proposed tour to Australia.
Meanwhile, only four foreign-based players have been
included in the team that will take part next week in west African regional Amilcar Cabral tournament in Mali.
The team, which is being put together by Under-23 coach Magacine Mar, is largely made of players drawn from the local league.
The foreign-based players that are invited are Amadou Ndiaye of French lower division club Grenoble, Ibrahima Diedhou and Ibrahima Ndiaye of the junior team of Lens and Mamadou Diaban who plays in Germany.
Mar said he was optimistic his team will win the regional tournament which is being used as rehearsal for the African Nations Cup by hosts Mali.
He said: "This is not the best Senegalese national team, but we are determined to uphold the reputation this nation has built for itself in Africa."
Senegal will play in Sikasso alongside Gambia, Cape Verde Island and Sierra Leone.
