On January 25, Beijing time, the African Cup of Nations round of 16, the world's 132nd place Comoros lost 1-2 to Cameroon. Missed the quarterfinals. And the strange thing is that the Comoros doesn't have a goalkeeper to use!
The Comoros are a dark horse in this year's Africa Cup of Nations, beating Ghana 3-2 in the final round of the group stage to push the latter to finish third in the group, and for the first time in history, they reached the knockout stage.
In the quarter-finals against another traditional giant, Cameroon, the Comoros faced another big problem, the main goalkeeper Salim Boina was injured, two substitute goalkeepers Ali Amada and Moyad Usseini tested positive for the new crown, and the three registered goalkeepers could not get on!
But according to the Rules of the Africa Cup of Nations, as long as there are 11 healthy players on both sides, then even if there is no goalkeeper, they must play. In the end, comoros made full-back Chaker Alhadhur a guest appearance as goalkeeper to start in the quarter-final, and the number of the goalkeeper's uniform was changed from 16 to 3.
To make matters worse, in the opening 7th minute, Comorian centre-back Abdou was all sent off with a red card, 10 to 11! In the 29th minute, Cameroon opened the scoring with Ecambi, and in the 70th minute, Abubakar went down again.
However, the Comoros played very tenaciously, scoring a free kick by M'Chagama in the 81st minute to pull a goal back, while cameo goalkeeper Alhadhur made four saves. Unfortunately, it was still 1-2 and stopped in the round of 16. But such a performance is enough to make them proud.