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Botswana win has Comoros dreaming big
- Updated: June 1, 2016
Comoros captain Nadjim ‘Jimmy’ Abdou plays his club football for Millwall in the third tier of English football
Comoros captain Nadjim ‘Jimmy’ Abdou says the historic victory over Botswana in March has given his side belief that they can beat Burkina Faso on Sunday.
The island nation beat Botswana 1-0 at home earlier this year to register their maiden victory in either Africa Cup of Nations or World Cup qualifying.
It came at the 20th time of asking and leaves Comoros with an outside chance of reaching next year’s Nations Cup.
“Now we are confident we can win at home,” Abdou told BBC Sport.
“We have to win this game to hope to be able to go through. It will be tough to be honest but we are aiming to win and will see what happens after that.”
Even with a shock victory against the Burkinabe, Comoros would also need to register a historic first qualifying away win – in Uganda in September – to have any chance of an unlikely qualification for Gabon 2017.
Did you know?The smallest country to ever qualify for the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations is Cape Verde, who reached the 2013 and 2015 finals despite being a nation of just half a million.
Lying bottom of Group D with three points, four behind joint leaders Burkina Faso and Uganda, Comoros’ faint …
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