Guinea U-23 Gets Bad News Ahead Of Facing Indonesia U-23

Guinea U-23 became Indonesia U-23's opponent in the playoff for tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics (Instagram/@feguifootofficiel).

JAKARTA - Guinea U-23 will be Indonesia U-23's opponent in a playoffs match to fight for tickets to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ahead of the meeting on May 9, 2024, Guinea U-23 was actually hit by bad news.

In the playoff match against Indonesia U-23 later, Guinea U-23 will not be strengthened by one of its mainstay strikers, Lamine Diaby-Fadiga. The player, who has many careers in France, was injured and had to miss this important match.

Reported by Guinefoot, Lamine-Fadiga is a player on the Kaba Diawara coach's call list. However, the opportunity to defend Guinea U-23 was dashed because conditions were not possible.

"Bad news for Lamine Diaby-Fadiga. The U-23 Guinean striker who plays for Paris FC in Ligue 2 will miss Guinea's U-23 playoff on May 9, 2024 in Paris," Guinefoot wrote on Monday, May 6, 2024.

The moment of appearing to defend Guinea U-23 in the playoffs was actually the first moment for Diaby-Fadiga. The reason is, since playing in the U-16 and U-18 age groups, he has always been listed as a member of the French national team.

This season, Diaby-Fadiga made an impressive appearance at the Couple de France by scoring three goals in three matches. In addition, while defending Paris FC, he also scored seven goals from a total of 27 appearances.

Previously, Diaby-Fadiga joined the Nice junior team from 2017 to 2020. After that, he decided to move to Paris FC and was loaned to FC Eindhoven.

Despite the absence of Diaby-Fadiga, the meeting of the two teams in the playoffs is very important for each team. Indonesia U-23 and Guinea U-23 will fight for a remaining place at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The winners in the match will certainly play at the 2024 Paris Olympics and are in Group A with France U-23, United States U-23, and New Zealand U-23.

Just like Indonesia U-23, which is ranked fourth for the 2024 U-23 Asian Cup, Guinea U-23 is the fourth-ranked resident of the 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations.