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CAN in winter, that old problem

The return to winter of the competition disrupted his preparation due to the sling of Western clubs.

The day of Wednesday did not take care of the image of African football. In two hours apart, a referee whistled the end of Mali-Tunisia before the end of regulation time while Mauritania had the bad surprise to enter the contest without being able to sing their anthem. Two fiascos observed at the same Stade de Limbé, because, peculiarity of this CAN 2022, the teams of the same pool follow one another on the same ground, the state of which is already deplorable.

Mocked on social networks after these events, the competition has been regularly criticized since its maintenance against the advice of FIFA at the end of December. Sign that the continent remains behind in the concert of international football. “It does not advance but it regresses», Plant Claude Le Roy, connoisseur of African football. “Money is more important than football, regrets the “Blond Sorcerer”, as he was nicknamed during his tribulations on the continent. Can’t the countries of the North finally help Africa to …

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