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AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS 2025/2026
AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS 2025/2026
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Totally bizarre. Surely FIFA will need to take action. It’s a form of mutiny.
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Seeing as nobody can say what is or isn't enough contact for a penalty this situation was inevitable in a final somewhere sometime soon. Var doesn't know either. A sport where the rules aren't clearcut is a farce.
Add to that cheating players and a lack of respect for the referee and you have a recipe for chaos, which it was. |
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^ Fine & suspended ban - NAP.
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Probably. Where sponsorships and future of same is concerned FIFA simply backs down.
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https://publish.reddit.com/embed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1qgy6n5/senegalese_player_being_chased_by_mororrocan_ball/ https://streamable.com/06v3nt https://packaged-media.redd.it/gu21uouu98eg1/pb/m2-res_1280p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1768838400&s=6ee440ebdc9798325f1d4165a23e8b0917e04329 |
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4 short videos of the terrible gamesmanship the Moroccans got up to last night.
plus....... Players in question: Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham) - sent to hospital at half time Krepin Diatta (Monaco) and Ousseynou Niang (USG) - sent to hospital during the warm-up possibly food poisoning |
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Having beaten Egypt in Wednesday’s semi-final in Tangier, the Senegal squad made the 75-minute journey south to the capital on the Al-Boraq high-speed train. On arrival in Rabat they were surrounded by fans and local people demanding selfies and videos released on social media show them being jostled as they made their way through the station to the team bus. The FSF spoke of a “clear lack of adequate security measures” that “exposed the players and technical staff to overcrowding and risks incompatible with the standards of a competition of this magnitude and the prestige of a continental final”. “We have to say what happened is abnormal, abnormal for a team like Senegal to be left with the crowd like that,” the Senegal manager, Pape Thiaw, said on Saturday. “The players were in danger. Anything could have happened through the actions of malicious people.” On reaching their hotel, the Senegal delegation was unsatisfied and filed a formal complaint to secure better facilities. The FSF also refused to train at the Mohammed VI complex just outside Rabat, saying that to be expected to train where the Morocco squad has been based since before the tournament began “raises a question of sporting fairness”. The FSF also protested that Senegal have been allocated 2,850 tickets for its fans, which it termed “insufficient given the demand”, saying that it “deplores the imposed restrictions, which penalise the Senegalese public.” The Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium has a capacity of 69,500. Tensions have been inflamed over the past few days with visiting teams accusing Morocco of seeking every conceivable advantage. Nigeria were unhappy with the refereeing during their penalty shootout loss to the hosts in the semi-final, while the Nigeria goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, had his towel stolen three times by a ballboy and Moroccan officials. Refereeing has been a recurring problem with the officials for all four quarter-finals changed less than 24 hours before kick-off, in part because Morocco protested about the Egyptian official they had been allocated for their game against Cameroon. |
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I have some understanding of why they snapped, let alone the refereeing decisions.
Many other teams would have |
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fairly simple solution, if you are not looking towards the ball as it comes across and you make contact with another player it's a foul. I don't remember the holding ever being like this in yesteryear.
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Because they have been allowed to keep getting away with it for a good few yrs now.
Refs started to book players for it but we all know the dreaded 2nd yellow rarely comes...... |
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What a farce? The behaviour on the field by both teams is so infantile and unprofessional that both teams ought to be charged for bringing the game into disrepute. This behaviour seems to be confined to tournaments in the African continent.
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Brahim Diaz statement.
My soul hurts. I dreamed of this title thanks to all the love you all gave me, every message, every show of support that made me feel I wasn’t alone. I fought with everything I had, with my heart above all else. Yesterday I failed and I take full responsibility. I apologize from the bottom of my heart. It will be hard for me to recover, because this wound doesn’t heal easily… but I will try. Not for myself, but for everyone who believed in me and for everyone who suffered with me. I will keep going forward until one day I can give you all this love back and become a source of pride for my Moroccan people. @YanisChakib |
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Is he going to do a Medfouna advert?
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Pizzas, then England manager...
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Senegal players didnt celebrate the save.
Says it all. |
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Aye, was noted.
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Worst thing to happen to a Morrocan man since Samir married Deidre Barlow
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 Very good indeed. Poor fella. |