26
Jan
Mauritania on Tuesday made history by advancing in a continental competition for the first time, beating more fancied Mali, in their final Group D game at the ongoing Championship of African Nations being staged in Algeria. Mali, silver medalists in 2020, were tipped to beat the Mauritanians and progress to the quarter-finals, however, in the end, it were the latter, with very little football pedigree in both the West African sub region and on the continent, that made an onward march in the competition, reserved for only home-based players. A 1-0 goal were all that they required to keep an…