Young Warriors Ready for  AFCON.

Windhoek, Feb. 2 – – The Young Warriors will depart on Saturday 6 February 2021 to Mauritania for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations for their maiden appearance.

Coach James Britz states that for the championship that starts on 14 February to 4 March, they will go there to compete.

” We have a good team and making our first appearance as a country the boys will surely plan to impress and leave a mark on the continent. We face two other debutants in Tunisia and CAR and so it will be equal footing. We will go early to make sure we acclimatize well and see if we can get in a friendly or two before the finals starts”.

Namibia are in Group B with Tunisia, Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Burkina Faso in Group B.

” We have not faced then before and that makes it interesting to play them. We will plan for each of them accordingly and anything is possible”, says Britz.

The Young Warriors will begin their campaign against Central African Republic, before facing Tunisia in their second game and will conclude the group stages with Burkina Faso.

Britz will announce his travelling party on Thursday morning.

The host nation, Mauritania are in Group A with Cameroon, Uganda and Mozambique while Group C is made up of Ghana,Tanzania, Gambia, Morocco.

This will be the first edition in Africa U-20 Cup of Nations to have expanded to 12 teams instead of eight. The top four teams of the tournament would have normally qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the CAF representatives. However, FIFA decided to cancel the tournament on 24 December 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Source:NFA