EL-HADJI Diouf has made his peace with Senegal's football hierarchy and will captain the Teranga Lions in their African Nations Cup qualifier against Tanzania in Dakar on Saturday.
The Wanderers striker led a boycott of the friendly international against Benin in France last month in protest at the fixture being arranged at short notice following the postponement of a scheduled match against Angola.
Slamming Senegal officials as "disrespectful amateurs" and the fact that seven other players, including his Bolton team-mate Abdoulaye Faye, supported the boycott, raised doubts over Diouf's international future. But, after he and Faye reported for duty with the Lions' squad, he made it clear he had drawn a line under the affair.
"The page is turned," Diouf said. "It is now up to us, the players, to give a victory to the Senegal people.
"After all the problems which occurred, we need to prove that Senegal remains always a big country."
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