Despite the Tanzanian national team conceding a 3-0 defeat from Morocco in the first game of the ongoing Afcon 2023 in Ivory Coast, Stars players fought but the strength of Morocco and the red card given to Novatus Dismas, was the reason for that blow
The Stars defense was led by two Yanga defenders Bakari Mwamnyeto and Ibrahim Hamad
If it is the award for the best player of the game for the Stars, then Bacca deserved it
Bacca is the player involved in the most incidents in the defensive line as well as the leading passer
Bacca took the second place for players who made the most passes in the game behind the Moroccan defender Nayef Aguerd who made 75 passes while Bacca made 63 passes. Sofyan Amrabat and Mwamnyeto followed each making 60 passes
In that game Bacca removed 8 dangerous balls, when he picked up 8 balls, 5 balls he removed from danger with his head, 'tackling' made 5 and won 7 fighting balls
For sure now Bacca is ripe! He, Mwamnyeto and Job are the backbone of Yanga and the national team
