Equatorial Guinea's Emilio Nsue Outshining Star Names At Cup Of Nations
Faizan Hashmi Published January 27, 2024 | 01:10 PM
Abidjan, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th Jan, 2024) Victor Osimhen, Mohamed Salah or Sadio Mane were perhaps the most likely bets to be top marksman at this year's Africa Cup of Nations, but the entirely unexpected name leading the scorers' charts in Ivory Coast has more goals than all of them combined.
Emilio Nsue, the captain of unfancied Equatorial Guinea, goes into a last-16 tie with Guinea on Sunday after netting five times in the group stage.
If he keeps this up, he could break Ndaye Mulamba's record of nine in one AFCON for Zaire in 1974.
"I am ambitious, but to be honest I would sign a contract right now if it said I would be the top scorer," he smiled when that record was mentioned to him in an interview with AFP in Abidjan.
Nsue scored twice in a 4-0 win over the hosts in their final group game, having netted three in a 4-2 win over Guinea-Bissau, the first Cup of Nations hat-trick since 2008.
Ranked 18th in Africa, Equatorial Guinea -- population 1.7 million -- is no footballing hotbed.
But the Central African nation has made remarkable progress over the last decade, spurred on by hosting the AFCON in 2012 and again in 2015, when they reached the semi-finals.
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