Nice Football Club Football Rumours and Transfers

09 October 2007

Mali have a full strength side for their decisive African Nations Cup qualifier away to Togo in Lome on Friday where the winner will progress to next year's finals in Ghana.

Coach Jean-Francois Jodar will have Sevilla's Frederic Kanoute to lead the attack while Mahamdou Diarra of Real Madrid and the Liverpool midfielder Momo Sissoko are expected to start in midfield.

Mali and Togo are both on nine points in the Group Nine standings.

Mali failed to qualify for the last Nations Cup finals in 2006 but were semi-finalists in 2002 and 2004.

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Soumbeyla Diakite (Stade Malien), Mahamadou Sidibe (PAS Giannina)

Defenders: Adama Coulibaly (Lens), Moussa Coulibaly (Mouloudia Alger), Souleymane Diamoutene (Lecce), Cedric Kante (Nice), Boubacar Kone (Maghreb Fes), Adama Tamboura (Helsingborg),

Midfielders: Souleymane Dembele (Djoliba), Mahamadou Diarra (Real Madrid), Seydou Keita (Sevilla), Djibril Sidibe (Chateauroux), Momo Sissoko (Liverpool), Bassala Toure (Levadiakos)

Strikers: Mamadou Diallo (Qatar SC), Frederic Kanoute (Sevilla), Mamady Sidibe (Stoke City), Dramane Traore (Lokomotiv Moscow).