Last day home, Senegal beats Namibia 3-1…

January 13th, 2008 | by: Magnusson | Comments(5)

In our last game in Dakar before leaving for Tamalé, Senegal managed to beat a pretty weak-looking namibian team. Not to be disrespectful or anything but we just seemed to be circles around them on this game. Henryk Kasperczak didn’t even have his A-team, with some light injuries for the likes of Habib Bèye and Abdoulaye Diagne Faye . he decided to experiment with Ibrahima Sonko as a full-back and Lamine Diatta as a right-back. Everybody was watching as the clubless vice-captain was taken in place of Pascal Mendy who happened to be excellent in every single one of the qualifying games he’s played.
In a Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor that I have rarely seen this empty, the team went as this:

Tony Sylva, Lamine Diatta, Souleymane Diawara, Ibrahima Sonko, Guirane Ndaw, Bayal Sall, Pape Bouba Diop, Diomansy Kamara, Frédéric Mendy, El Hadji Diouf, Mamadou Niang

The first two goals were scored by Diomansy Kamara who had an incredibly prolific game. The third one was all Henri Camara and what a beautiful goal it was by the “Gunning rabbit”. At half time, half the team was changed, notably mamadou Naing and Elhadji Diouf getting replaced. After a few minutes of taking used-to that brough tthe magnificent Namibian goal, everybody went back to work and won this one pretty easily.

Here is a video that is made of highlights of the game, a few half time interviews, a little backstory on Ghana organized world cups and finally a little subject on the fourth biggest town in Ghana, Tamalé, where we will face Tunisia, Angola and South Africa.