The 2026 World Cup begins Thursday evening in Mexico, and the African continent still does not know its champion. Five months after the CAN 2025 final, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has not yet ruled on the outcome of this match.
If Senegal won on the field on January 18 in Rabat (1-0, ap), the appeal jury of the Confederation of African Football decided otherwise two months later by annulling the result and awarding the title to Morocco on the green carpet (3-0).
A status that many contest, like Marcel Desailly. For the former Blues defender, interviewed by FlashScorethe Atlas Lions cannot decently be considered the reigning African champions at the dawn of the North American World Cup.
“We cannot say that Morocco won the CAN”
“France must play Senegal (June 16)… they are the winners of the CAN. We cannot say that Morocco won the CAN. On the field, for me, the champion‘Africa, it remains the Sinequal “says the 1998 world champion.
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