Comoros Football Federation president, Said Ali Athouman has revealed that his side fielded a player who tested positive for Covid against Ghana.
In the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] in Cameroon, Ghana were housed in the same group with Comoros, Gabon and Morocco.
However, in the final group game, the Black Stars suffered a 3-2 defeat against the debutants.
Athouman says the Coelacanths fielded players who had tested positive for Covid on a lateral flow test, even though he told British newspaper The Guardian on Thursday that the players later tested negative on a different test.
"Against Ghana - I can say it now since time has passed - we had first-team players who tested positive and we managed to have them on the pitch playing," Athouman said at his wedding.
After beating Ghana in one of the Nations Cup's all-time shocks, Comoros - an island nation of just under a million inhabitants who were then ranked 132nd in the world - belied their status when reaching the knockout stage in their maiden finals.
They were beaten in the Round of 16 by host nation Cameroon, with the match largely forgotten owing to the eight spectators who died in a crush while trying to attend the match.