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Mauritania will no longer be able to count on its midfielder Yassin Cheikh El Welly. The attacking midfielder of the Union sportive de Tataouine (Tunisian D1) is forfeited for the Can (January 9-February 6). Cheikh El Welly is operated successfully this Wednesday in Doha "for a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament with sprain of the medial collateral ligament of the right knee", we read in Mosaic Fm.

However, the list of coach Mourabitounes, Didier Gomes Da Rosa is expected this Thursday, December 23. Mauritania is in Pool F along with Tunisia, Mali and Gambia.