Concord Times (Freetown)
Sahr Morris Jr
24 November 2008
Sierra Leone Youth U-20 side, Shooting Stars will play its opening Group C match in West Africa Football Union (WAFU) against Mauritania on November 29.
While the other teams in the Group, Cote d'Ivoire will face Burkina Faso.
Shooting Stars are expected to depart Freetown next week and Coach Daniel Koroma aka Diamond Toes have already short listed 22 players, but he is expected to shorten the list to 18 players.
Assistant coach, Alimamy K-foot dismissed reports that the technical team dropped players that were not in the team that played in the Merdeka Cup football tournament in Malaysia.
According to K-foot, the included players, Ibrahim Teeteh Bangura, Michael Kallay and Ibrahim Baggio were with the team but did not make the Malaysia trip after they went on trials in United Arab Emirate (UAE).
Meanwhile, host nation, Nigeria will play Togo in their opening group A match, while Benin take on Guinea Bissau in the same group.
In Group B, Ghana will play against their Senegalese rivals while the Gambians will play Guinea on the same day and in Group D actions, Mali versus Cape Verde and Niger republic against Liberia in the opening round.
Twenty countries in the West African sub-region are to compete for honours in the age-limit competition holding in four Delta cities - Oghara, Warri, Oleh and Ogwashi-Ukwu.
The competition will run between November 28 and December 8.
Also former skipper of the Super Eagles, Austin JJ Okocha, was one of the dignitaries that graced the fund raising dinner of WAFU on Wednesday in Asaba.
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