U15 World Cup: Madagascar open against Mozambique in Baku
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Lexpress
Madagascar’s Barea U15 will begin against Mozambique’s Mambas on Saturday at 10.30am Madagascar time in Group T of the first FIFA U15 World Cup and eight-a-side football festival. The Malagasy team will then play two matches on Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, according to Lexpress.
Madagascar will face Mozambique at 10.30am Madagascar time on Saturday in Baku, in its opening match of the first edition of the FIFA U-15 World Cup, played with eight players. The Barea are in Group T, according to L’Express de Madagascar.
The Malagasy team will then play four matches over two days: against New Zealand and Puerto Rico on Sunday, followed by Venezuela and Somalia on Monday. Each match will be played in two 20-minute halves, in a competition bringing together 189 nations divided into 32 groups of six teams, reports L’Express de Madagascar.
The 14-player squad arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday and held its first training session on Thursday. The team is made up mainly of players from the national academy in Carion, a young talent development project funded by the FIFA Forward programme. Six players are from Analamanga, two from Toamasina, two from Ambilobe and one each from the regions of Mahajanga, Bongolava, Fianarantsoa and Sambava, the Malagasy newspaper reports.
