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The head coach of the Central African Republic football team has told Newsday how the country鈥檚 president has asked the team to help bring about peace in the war-torn nation by making history on the pitch this weekend.

Central African Republic and Angola are set to battle it out at the Stade de la Reunification in Douala, Cameroon, on Saturday 17 June in the 2023 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.

CAR are second in their group, with two qualifying games to play, just one point behind leaders Ghana and two ahead of Angola.

Raoul Savoy said: 鈥淲e are going to fight and qualify and then send Angola home...(the president) said, 鈥榟elp us to put peace in the country鈥� and I think that鈥檚 the social way of the game.鈥�

(Picture: Shows Central African Republic coach Raoul Savoy. Credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP via Getty Images.)