Libreville, June 29, 2023 (AGP) – The former Gabonese international, and captain of the winning generation of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco in 2011, gave his support to the players of Gabon, after their elimination last Wednesday , facing Niger.
The elimination of Gabon’s U23 national team from the African Cup of Nations has provoked a lot of reactions in Gabonese sports opinion, which is more divided than ever. And if for the moment the trend seemed to converge in the direction of a group not at all at the level of this great continental meeting, Remy Ebanega, for his part, estimated that the reasons for this failure are rather to be found elsewhere, and believes in the potential of this team.
“This selection of Gabon U23 in 2023 is as talented as our winner of the first edition of CAN U23 in Morocco in 2011,” he said.
The president of the National Association of Professional Footballers of Gabon (ANFPG) set out several parameters that contributed to the elimination of the Panthers U23, as if to draw the comparison between the 2011 and 2023 generations.
“The only difference is that our selection was made up of competitive, non-anxious players who played in a very competitive Gabonese championship, without being chronically unpaid. A championship which provided the national team A with 55% of its workforce during CAN 2021,” he recalled.
Because for the former member of AJ Auxerre (France), “Gabon footballers are physically and psychologically traumatized. And that one of the remedies to cure these evils, according to the latter, would be to “put the professional footballer at the center of the football development project in Gabon and give him a legal status through a collective agreement”, he said. suggested.
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