A major player in the success of the DRC’s African trip during the 2023 Ivory Coast Africa Cup, Yoane Wissa, this Monday March 18 at the microphone of Charles Mbuya, recognized the great difficulty he is experiencing today from digest a feat as memorable as that achieved by the DRC with a group that was an outsider at the launch of the competition.
The Brentford striker draws his feeling of success from the lack of confidence of the football world towards the DRC at the start of the Ivory Coast 2023 CAN, and especially from the long journey of the Congolese selection starting from two defeats consecutively during the first two days of the qualifiers to finally finish among the best African teams.
” No not yet. I still have difficulty realizing the journey we made, and especially since we came out of a course with two defeats before qualifying, so we have come a long way. It’s really that we haven’t yet realized what we have just done, and above all that too few people believed in us. With all humility, we made a semi-final, only the final remained but people don’t realize either,” said Yoane Wissa.
In the register of the atypical course of the Congolese selection, the Congolese attacker underlines the formation of a homogeneous group in which the interests of the selection were above the interests of individuals. According to him, this homogeneous group would be formed thanks to the regularity of several within the den but also the leadership of the elders of the group.
“We feel that there is a group starting to emerge, that’s what creates the difference. We feel that selection following selection, it is always the same people who come back, selection following selection, there is always a framework to lead to success, that has made the difference. When we move forward, we start to see signs of success, we start to have confidence in each other. This is what made the difference even if we did not expect to do something so beautiful,” he underlined.
Author of three goals during this African campaign, Yoane Wissa sends flowers to all the players in this magnificent journey. “I think it’s very good for us, very good for our fans and very good for the coach too. I think it’s a very good job.”
Gaël Hombo
2024-03-19 22:02:53
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