Malawi boss Mario Marinica has insisted bigger sides with more popular players get preferential treatment at AFCON2021
“Gambia have the same problem, and there are different standards here, teams are being treated differently.
“We talk about inclusion, we want to have minnows, small teams doing fantastic things, but when it comes to the latter stages, people don’t fancy us playing against Cape Verde and not Senegal playing Morocco. “Certain questions have to be asked; why are these things happening to us, why only to the smaller teams, why only to Comoros, Gambia, us?”
Against the odds, Malawi progressed through to the last-16 by coming third in their group after beating Zimbabwe and earning a superb draw with Mane’s Senegal. And despite his side’s valiant run in the competition, Marinica continued to pull no punches in his assessment of how smaller countries are treated.Marinica has followed through with his gripes, hoping that things will change for smaller nations in future.“I complained to the managers of the estate, and at the current [hotel] we struggled for three days before things were sorted out.
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