The Angolan national team will concentrate in Portugal, where it will carry out a training camp, before heading to Cairo, where it will face Egypt, on September 2, in the first round of Group F.
Seven days later, the 'Palancas Negras' receive, in Luanda, the counterpart of Libya, for the second round of a group, which also includes Gabon.
The selector Pedro Gonçalves said that the goal is to qualify the Angolan team for the Qatar World Cup, starting by winning the first two matches.
In recent days, the Angolan Football Federation, through its vice president José Carlos Miguel, had said that the organization was without money for the stage in Portugal, with the promise of looking for an immediate solution.
List of convoked:
- Goalkeepers: Kadu (Oliveirense, Por), Hugo Marques (Cape City, Afs) and Ricardo Batista (Casa Pia, Por).
- Defenders: Anderson Lucoqui (Mainz, Ale), Bartolomeu Kissanga 'Bastos' (FC Rostov, Rus), Inácio Miguel (Mafra, Por), Jonathan Buatu (Sint-Truiden, Bel), Kialunga Gaspar (Sagrada Esperança), Kevin Bokuso (Nec Nijmegen, Hol), Mukoni Lourenço 'Clinton Damata' (Brugge, Bel), Núrio Fortuna (Gent, Bel) and Victor Vindinho (Petro de Luanda).
- Midfielders: Fredy (Antalyasport, Tur), Giovane Bamba (FC Ouchy, Sui), Herenilson do Carmo (1.º de Agosto), Show (Lille, Fra), João Fortes 'Batxi' (Desportivo de Chaves, Por) and Valdomiro Lameira (BB Erzurumsport, Tur).
- Forwards: Jérémie Béla (Birmingham, Ing), Ambrosine Salvador 'Zine' (1. º de Agosto), Fábio Abreu (Al-Batin, Ara), Ivan Cavaleiro (Fulham, Ing), Gelson Dala (Al-Wakrah, Qat), Mbala Nzola (Spezia, Ita), Hélder Costa (Leeds, Ing), Simone Miranda 'Lépua' (Sagrada Esperança), Vladimiro Felix "Vá" (Pafos, Gre) and Zito Luvumbo (Como 1907, Ita).
