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Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes.

And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast.

It's Wednesday, which means we'll be picking out some of the best work available on the Athletic right now and putting the author under the spotlight.

It's a clever, free kick!

And it's silence because Samuel Etto has given Cameron the league.

And I said, oh, there's a little tournament in January, and I didn't mean a little tournament.

It just mean like you say it when something, there's still a tournament.

It's ironic.

It's only half cleared away.

It drops out of JJ a culture.

Who scores what must be one of the best and most significant goals in a nation's cup final.

That is a thrilling goal by JJ Accochard.

Yes, this week we're going to highlight an article by the brilliant Carl Anker,

simply entitled Why Afcon Matters, because two long years after it was initially scheduled and disrupted,

we're finally here, Afcon is back.

Yeah, really looking forward to that flow.

And Jay Harris, reporter for The Athletic, has also been writing about Comoros, aka the Islands of the Moon, a tiny African

nation, which has written its own spectacular story by qualifying for Afcon for the first time

in its history. He's joining us too. But let's say hello to Carl straight away because we want

to ask him about Marcus Rashford.

Carl, welcome.

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