“We Are All Ready” Senegalese Koulibaly Fires Warning to More Favoured AFCON Teams

African Cup of Nation is here and stars are warming up! This is the activity that many teams are involved in currently.

Some teams like Kenya, Ghana, South Africa among others are out of the continent doing their preparations. Others like Egypt and Tanzania are currently in Cairo getting used to the environment ahead of the tournament.

But it seems this year’s tournament is going to be by far the most competitive owing to the fact that many prolific African players who are currently rocking Europe will be featured in the tournament.

Notably, Senegal is one of the nations that have great players like Sadio Mane and Kalidou Koulibaly who are going to grace the tournament.

Egypt is also not left behind as they are also captained by a Golden Boot winner Mohammed Salah, who won the Premier League boot together with Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

So which team do you think is going to lift Africa’s elite trophy this year?

This is admittedly a difficult question to answer. But Senegalese and Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly seems to have seen some light ahead for Senegal and fires warning to more favoured teams.

Most notable, Senegal is the only nation that has made the most appearance in the competition. Senegal have graced the competition 14 times but has not won the trophy.

But Koulibaly has a message.

During his interview with one publication, Kalidou said that even though there are some teams that are favoured more than them, they have to keep their feet on the ground and put all the teams to difficulty. The sensational Napoli defender is adamant that their side is the best to lift the trophy.

What next?

All eyes are waiting to see if Senegal will take up the challenge and lift the trophy for the first time and break the ‘bad luck’ notion.

Do you think Senegal are in a good position to lift this year’s AFCON trophy?

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