Sadio Mane zai taka leda a Senegal lokacin da za su kara da Morocco a wasan karshe na AFCON 2025.
Morocco da Senegal sun hadu a wasan karshe na gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afrika ajin masu nauyi a ranar Lahadi tare da kasar mai masaukin baki da fatan jama’a masu ban sha’awa za su taimaka musu wajen lashe kofin nahiya na farko cikin rabin karni.
Walid Regragui na Maroko ne aka fi so a shiga gasar bayan da ta zama ta farko a Afirka da ta taba kai wasan kusa da na karshe a gasar cin kofin duniya a shekarar 2022 kuma ta kafa kanta a matsayin kungiyar da ke kan gaba a gasar ta FIFA.
Ba a doke su ba a cikin shekaru biyu, tun bayan da suka fice daga gasar cin kofin AFCON na karshe a Ivory Coast a zagaye na 16 na karshe zuwa Afirka ta Kudu, kuma kyaftin din ne a matsayin gwarzon dan kwallon Afrika na wannan shekara, dan wasan baya na Paris Saint-Germain, Achraf Hakimi.
Sai dai duk da hakan na nufin an fuskanci matsin lamba sosai kan kasar ta Maroko tun farkon wannan gasa, wadda ita ce ta farko a kasar tun shekarar 1988 da kuma gasar AFCON ta farko da za ta fara a shekara daya ta kare a wata guda.
Morocco ta buga dukkan wasanninta a filin wasa na Prince Moulay Abdellah da ke Rabat babban birnin kasar, inda magoya bayanta suka yi ta ihu a lokacin wasan rukuni, amma ta samu nasara kan magoya bayanta da ke neman shiga gasar.
Bayan da Kamaru ta samu nasara a wasan daf da na kusa da na karshe da kuma bugun fenariti da Najeriya ta yi a wasan daf da na kusa da na karshe, magoya bayan Morocco kusan 70,000 ne za su cika filin wasan da fatan ganin kungiyarsu ta dauki kofin.
“Ina ganin mun cancanci shiga wasan karshe. Mun buga manyan kungiyoyi kamar Mali, Kamaru da Najeriya, kuma yanzu za mu fuskanci wata kungiya mafi kyau,” in ji Regragui, wanda ya fuskanci suka akai-akai daga jama’a masu jiran gado.
“Daga karshe mutane za su yarda cewa Maroko babbar kasa ce ta kwallon kafa, amma don zuwa mataki na gaba dole ne mu lashe kofuna, don haka wasan na ranar Lahadi yana da matukar muhimmanci a tarihinmu.”
Regragui yana kula da kasar Gasar da ba ta da kyau a gasar, tare da takensu daya zo a Habasha a 1976.
Kocin wanda haifaffen Faransa ne ya buga wasan karshe a Morocco inda suka kai wasan karshe, lokacin da suka yi rashin nasara a hannun mai masaukin baki Tunisia a 2004. A wannan karon yana son ya yi nasara.
Idan kuma bai yi haka ba, to akwai yiwuwar ba zai sake jagorantar gasar ba a lokacin da za a fara gasar cin kofin duniya a watan Yuni.
Regragui ya ce “Ko da an fitar da mu a zagayen farko, hakan ba zai hana ni yarda da kaina ba tare da fada wa kaina cewa ni koci ne na kwarai.”
“Abin da na yi a baya ba za a iya kwace min ba, ba na tsammanin mutane za su ba ni komai ba, ba wai na yi ikirarin cewa na fi kowa ba. Abu mafi muhimmanci shi ne Morocco ta kai wasan karshe.”
– bankwana da Mane na AFCON –
Masu masaukin baki ba za su iya neman abokiyar karawar da ta fi Senegal ba, wacce ita ce kasa ta biyu a Afirka a jerin kasashe, kuma ta kai wasan karshe na uku a gasar AFCON.
Bayan ta sha kashi a hannun Aljeriya a birnin Alkahira a shekarar 2019, Lions of Teranga ta lashe gasar a karon farko a birnin Yaounde a shekarar 2022 lokacin da ta doke Masar da bugun fanariti.
Ivory Coast ta yi waje da ita a zagaye na 16 na karshe a shekarar 2024, ta sake dawowa domin samun tikitin shiga gasar cin kofin duniya kuma ta kai wasan karshe da Sadio Mane wanda ya doke Masar a zagayen hudu na karshe.
Tawagar Senegal ce mai gogewa sosai, kuma ta tsufa, Mane, mai tsaron gida Edouard Mendy, kyaftin Kalidou Koulibaly da dan wasan tsakiya Idrissa Gana Gueye duk suna tsakanin 33 zuwa 36.
Tsohon dan wasan Liverpool Mane ya bayyana bayan wasan Masar cewa wasan karshe shine wasansa na karshe a gasar cin kofin duniya.
“Ni sojan kasa ne, kuma ina ƙoƙari na ba da duk abin da na ke yi a kowace rana, ko a horo ko a wasa,” in ji Mane.
“Amma wannan ba shine mafi mahimmanci a gare ni ba, abu mafi mahimmanci shine kawo wannan kofin zuwa Dakar.”
Dan wasan baya na tsakiya Koulibaly ba zai buga wasan ba ta hanyar dakatarwa, wani babban rauni ga Senegal a wasan karshe tsakanin ‘yan wasan baya biyu da suka yi fice. Sun zura kwallaye uku a tsakaninsu a gasar.
