adminOrlando Pirates will have little turnover time for this Friday’s African Confederation Cup tie in Mali as they only leave for west Africa tonight and play less than 48 hours later. Pirates, the country’s sole survivors in continental club competition this year, will travel via Dakar to Bamako, where they are to meet AS Kaloum of Guinea in the first leg of their African Confederation Cup fourth round tie.
The match is being played on neutral territory because of the ban on international soccer in Guinea since the outbreak of the Ebola virus last year.
The game kicks off at 5pm local time (7pm South African time) on Friday night at Bamako’s Modibo Keita Stadium and Pirates will begin the return journey the next day.
The game is on Friday because locals Stade Malien play there in the same competition on Saturday in a match against AS Vita Club of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zakhele Siwela is to be the linesman for that match working with two officials from the Seychelles.
Victor Gomes has been appointed to take charge of the Confederation Cup tie in Tunisia where CS Sfaxien host ASEC Abidjan of the Ivory Coast. — Mzansi Football
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