Guinea clinched the ultimate spot within the males’s soccer event on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games with a 1-0 win over Indonesia in an intercontinental play-off in France.
Getafe ahead Ilaix Moriba netted what proved to be the winner from the penalty spot simply earlier than the half-hour mark after Algassime Bah was introduced down by Indonesia’s Witan Sulaeman.
The West Africans might have added to their lead after being awarded one other spot-kick within the second half when Alfeandra Dewangga was punished for a problem on Bah.
Nonetheless, Bah clipped the publish and despatched his effort extensive.
Guinea held on to succeed in the Olympics for the primary time since 1968, changing into the ultimate qualifiers for the 16-team males’s event.
They’ll face hosts France, the USA and New Zealand in Group A.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino was amongst these in attendance for the play-off in Clairefontaine and was within the stands alongside Guinean federation president Aboubacar Sampil and Indonesian counterpart Erick Thohir.
Egypt, Morocco and Mali may even signify Africa in males’s soccer at Paris 2024, with Nigeria and Zambia the continent’s two qualifiers for the 12-team girls’s event.
The lads’s Olympic occasion runs from 24 July to 9 August whereas the ladies’s competitors shall be held from 25 July to 10 August.
