Corazon Aquino made her CAF Women Champions League debut on Sunday evening as her club, Simba Queens suffered a 1-0 defeat in the hands of hosts AS FAR FC at the Stade Prince Heritier Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.The tightly contested duel was settled by Ibitissam Jaridi’s 67th-minute goal. Topister Situma was named on the bench in the game but did not feature.##NAJAVA_MECA_6767700##In the opening game of the competition, Green Buffaloes from Zambia gave Mali’s Determine Girls FC a rude awakening by thrashing them 4-0. Maweta Chilenga Natasha Nanyangwe, Hellen Chanda, and Irene Lungu scored the goals to take Buffaloes to the top of Group A. ASFAR will play Gren Buffaloes next while Simba will be up against Determine. Both matches will be played on Wednesday 2nd November.In France, Eliot Matazo, born to a Kenyan mother and Belgian father, featured for 90 minutes as his club Monaco picked a 2-0 win over Angers at home. Breel Embolo and Aleksandr Golovin got the goals in the 54th and 70th minutes to lead the team to a comfortable win. The result lifted them to sixth in the log with 24 points after 13 rounds of league matches. Next for them is a crunch UEFA Europa League match against Red Star Belgrade on Thursday evening.Eliot Matazo is a 20-year old ball-winning midfielder currently in the books of AS Monaco. Born to a Kenyan luo mother and a Belgian father, he is eligible to play for Harambee Stars as he is yet to feature for the Belgium Senior National team 😎#StarsAbroad pic.twitter.com/tDpd3xK59o— Jeff Kinyanjui (@_JeffKinyanjui) October 31, 2022 In Belgium, Kenyan international Joseph Okumu featured in the entire match as Gent registered a 1-1 draw against Oud-Heverlee Leuven. Hugo Cuypers had given Gent a 42nd-minute lead that was cancelled out by a Mario Gonzalez 73rd goal from the penalty spot. Gent now shift focus to the UEFA Conference League where they host Molde and must beat them to progress to the next phase.Joash Onyango keeps clean sheet as Simba record five star performance
