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Africa Cup 2022 - Round 1 : recap and wonders of African football

Yesterday, the matches of the group stage of the African Cup of Nations, organized by Cameroon, ended. Twenty-four teams have signed up for the tournament to compete for its title in a version marked by intense competition between top teams including, Cameroon Wild Lions, Egyptian Pharaohs, Ivorian Elephants, Moroccan Atlantic Lions , the Nigeria Eagles. , the Algerian Desert Tamers and the Ghanaian Black Stars. The first group: the logic was respected and the host country in the lead. Cameroon managed to win with seven points, to top their group with seven points, ahead of Burkina Faso and Cape Verde. Group 2: A weak start for the 2019 finalist and a surprise from Malawi. Senegal one of the oldest and strongest African teams in the tournament since runners-up secured second place in the previous edition, but their performance surprised everyone by only 5 points with a win and two draws and cast doubt on supporters who criticized Liverpool player Sadio Mane. knowing that Guinea and M

Morocco wins the African National Cup for the second time in a row.

It was an amazing thing for the Moroccan youth players to be able to win the African Championship and be added to their country’s treasury, when they became the first African team to celebrate the African Cup for the locals twice in a row.   The team’s path was difficult at first, as it narrowly defeated the Togo national team with a goal from a penalty kick, which made doubts growing about the team’s ability to maintain its title.     These doubts were confirmed when Morocco drew with Rwanda without goals so that doubt entered the management of the team and became close to elimination     However, Morocco's capabilities appeared strongly when it defeated Uganda by five goals, to qualify for the second round     Morocco met the very strong and organized Zambian national team, but luck helped Morocco when it scored the first goal in the first minute to add the second goal minutes later, the next goal was achieved before the end of the first round.   In the

The MAMA AFRICA Scandals: Very funny and lamentable corruption stories.

  The world cannot live without the stories of MAMA Africa, the continent where corrupt match buying and selling takes place. The last speech of Farouk Jaafar the former Egyptian player and the former coach of Zamalek Sporting Club on the buying and selling of African matches. This gentleman's words created a scandal within the African football federation as well as within the Egyptian federation. Farouk Gaafar The most astonishing that Mr. Jaafar specified the methods and modalities of operation of corruption operations and he said during a program with the sports channel of Zamalik that: He was seated with the referees before the African matches for Zamalek in the eighties of the last century when he was captain of the team, and the referee gave him the choice between awarding a penalty to the team or ejecting a player from the competitors, in exchange for the referees shopping in the stores from Port Said and taking whatever they needed, confirming that this was happening with

African Champions league: Between Cameroon and UAE.

  The executive members of the African football federation are in discussions to deal with certain proposals relating to the management of competitions.   Between these proposals and the place of the semi-finals and the final of the champions league.   An Egyptian proposal asked that the UAE organize the last three matches of the competition between Wydad of Casablanca and Ahly of Egypt as well as between Club du Raja and Zamālek of Egypt. A pure semi-final between the Moroccans and the Egyptians.   This proposal rejected by Moroccan clubs on the grounds that the cup must keep its African originality and it must be organized by an African country.   This idea of ​​the Moroccans was appreciated by the members of the African federation, therefore, the choice of the organizing country will be Cameroon but it is still a proposal for treatment and the CAF will need the agreement of the local authorities. so they must prepare the stadiums and the necessary sanitary measur

Finally, the dates of the African competitions are specified.

The problems of the African football federation will never be over, We forget the problems of good governance and transparency. Corona Virus has deepened these issues. Indeed, CAF has decided to organize the semi-final of the champions league in Cameroon by applying the method of a single decisive match instead of the match system with a first leg and another return leg. The mini-championship will be organized in a neutral country which Cameroon in the Yawndi stadium, a semi final composed of Wydad sportif and Club du Raja, Al ahly sporting Club Zamalek Sporting Club. The meetings will be scheduled in September and the final will be played after a few days. We remind you that the previous edition is still in the arbitral tribunal of sport to decide in the winner between the Wydad Sport and Espérance du Tunis a match which has known scandals in terms of arbitration and in terms of organization and security . "Why does VAR work everywhere but not in Tunis?" said Ahmed A