A youthful mistake. At the heart of tensions this Sunday during the CAN 2025 final between Senegal and Morocco, Ibrahim Mbaye, the young striker for the Lions of Teranga and Paris Saint-Germain, stood out by… sending a photo on Snapchat.
Indeed, when the Senegalese players returned to the locker room to protest against the penalty awarded – and ultimately missed – to Brahim Diaz, the Parisian Titi allowed himself a small deviation by taking out his phone to communicate with one of his relatives on the instant messaging application.
“Peace, we’re being robbed,” he wrote to the recipient, who quickly took a screenshot before leaking the image on social media. “So he’s in the middle of a match and he’s responding to me,” replied Mbaye’s friend, visibly very amused by their exchange.
“It was in the heat of the moment”
If the outcome of the meeting was ultimately favorable to the Senegalese, crowned thanks to Édouard Mendy’s save on the Moroccan penalty and Pape Gueye’s saving goal during extra time, the consequences of this photo taken in the middle of the CAN final could have been more important for the Parisian crack. The latter took the floor to apologize after the match, this time on the social network Instagram.
“For the photo that I took in the locker room, I am sorry,” regretted the African champion in the story. “I didn’t think when I did it, it was in the heat of the moment. This is not an attitude to have and it will not happen again. » There is no doubt that Lions fans will have no trouble forgiving their young element, around an excellent entry into the final, as during most of Senegal’s matches in the competition.
