The National Football Team, Mambas, will face its South African counterpart, Bafana-bafana, in the quarterfinals of the 2022 COSAFA Cup from July 5-17 in Durban. The draw was held on Tuesday at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in South Africa, the current holder of the championship trophy.
Both teams will be exempt from the first round and will play in the quarterfinals of the competition, according to the draw.
Eight teams will take part in the competition, divided into two groups. The first place in each series will go to the quarter-finals.
Also in the quarterfinals, Madagascar will face Namibia, while Zambia will wait for the winner of Group A and guest country Senegal will face the winner of Group B.
The winners of the quarterfinals will advance to the semi-finals, while the losers will play each other to determine the best placed of the eliminated teams.
Group A consists of Angola, Comoros, Seychelles and Botswana.
Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius and eSwatini are in group B.
The participation of the Mambas in the COSAFA Cup 2022 will serve to prepare the national team for the first qualifying round for the CHAN - CAN Internal, in which Mozambique will fight for access to the second stage against Zambia, which will also be present in the regional tournament.
In the coming days Chiquinho Conde should release the list of players called for these two agendas, being only guaranteed that the 11 players who play domestically and who were in the confrontations with Rwanda and Zambia will be among the called players.
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