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TANZANIA 2019 AFRICAN U-17 FIELD COMPLETE AS DEFENDING CHAMPIONS, MALI ARE ELIMINATED

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BY APESIN ADEMOLA.

All the eight teams for next years Africa U17 Cup of Nations in Tanzania are now know. Guinea picked the last ticket after ousting defending champions 5-4 on penalties on Sunday night in Senegal.

Mali will not be able to defend their 2017 title.

Full time scores stood at 2-2 before the ensuing penalty shootout. Earlier in the day, hosts of the zonal playoff, Senegal had picked the first of the two tickets for the zone after a 6-0 defeat of Cape Verde.

The list of Tanzania 2019 finalists is now completed. They are: Tanzania (hosts), Nigeria, Angola, Cameroon, Uganda, Morocco, Guinea and Senegal.

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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