Senegalese referee, Issa Sy will take charge of the Quarterfinal match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Angola on Friday.
Sy, who has officiated two group stage matches so far at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations including a goalless draw between South Africa and Tunisia. The second match he officiated which also ended in a 1-1 score draw was between Algeria and Angola.
The referee will be assisted by his fellow countrymen, Djibril Camara and Nouha Bangoura as assistant referee 1 and assistant referee 2 respectively alongside Mauritanian official, Abdel Aziz Bouh as the fourth official.
Ali Mohamed Ahmed from Somalia will serve as the match commissioner, Ahmad Nazeer Hossen Bowud from Mauritius as the match assessor with Mali’s Modibo Samake as the reserve assistant referee.
The Super Eagles of Nigeria defeated Angola to reach the final round of the qualification series for the 1990 FIFA World Cup finals (2-2 in Luanda and 1-0 in Lagos), but the Angolans stepped on Nigeria to make their single appearance at the FIFA World Cup finals, when they beat Nigeria 1-0 in Luanda and held them to a 1-1 draw in Kano to edge the head-to-head contest which was the determining factor for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification series.
The match which will be played at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan will kick off at 5 pm Cote d’Ivoire time (6 pm Nigeria time). The winner of the match will face who triumphs between Cape-Verde and South Africa in the other quarter-final match.
