Guinea's president Alpha Conde was arrested this weekend during a military coup in Conakry, according to a statement in a video from the coup makers to AFP.
Aly Keita, belonging to Östersunds FK, is on site together with the rest of Guinea's national team squad just outside the city.
For the safety of the players, they have not been allowed to leave the hotel after the incident and guards are on site around the clock.
- I'm not afraid for my own sake.
More for my family who live out there in the capital.
I have been nervous and scared but everyone is fine.
So right now the situation feels stable but you do not know what can happen and therefore you want to get home quickly, he says.
Everything has been set up
Guinea would have played the World Cup qualifier against Morocco on Monday.
But the match has, together with all training, been canceled due to the prevailing situation in the city.
Something that Keita thinks is good.
- They feel completely right, it is not time to play a match after what has happened.
It feels right that they made the decision not to play.
Of course, it's a little boring, but there are more important things than football.
I'll take a rain check.
Waiting to go home
Right now, the team is at the hotel waiting to go home, which Keita is looking forward to.
- The management says that we can go tomorrow, so I hope it will be so.
I long for my girlfriend and my children.
You always do that when you are away, but you long for something like this.
While Keita longs to come home to the family, he also looks forward to ÖFK's upcoming match.
- It will be fun to come home to the team again and start training.
We have an important match against Siruis on Saturday which I look forward to.
Moroccan players had time to fly out
Among the players who are stuck are Liverpool's Naby Keita, Lokomotiv Moscow's Francois Kamano and Toulouse's Issiaga Sylla.
He says that the league captain gathered the team at breakfast at the hotel on Sunday to inform about the coup.
- Soldiers were sent out to secure our hotel.
The airport is only ten minutes away but we were not allowed to move, says Sylla to L'Equipe.
Guinea was to face Morocco in Conakry on Monday, but opponents managed to leave the country on Sunday night after several hours of anxious waiting after Morocco's King Mohammed VI intervened, writes AP.
- We felt fear during the events in Conakry but the most important thing was that we could return to Morocco in a safe way, says the Moroccan hill Nayef Aguerd.
Fifa is following developments closely.
No new game day has been announced yet.