The news broke on Tuesday evening, during the second period of Champions League matches. If these meetings were rather calm, the decision of the CAF to take away the title from Senegal, and therefore to crown Morocco, immediately set the world of football on fire. Obviously, on the Senegal side, we clearly have it bad, and the reactions are numerous…
And Real Madrid players were also shaken by this news. As indicated in the Cadena SERthe news shocked the Merengue locker room. It reached the ears of the players present on the Real Madrid sidelines during the second period. Replaced a little over twenty minutes from the end, Brahim Diaz, the only Moroccan who played in the tournament on the Madrid side, was informed by his partners.
Madrilenians happy for Brahim
Although discreet, he logically did not hide his joy or his smiles, and the teammates around him congratulated him. The Merengues still present on the pitch, however, did not hear the news until the final whistle, like Aurélien Tchouameni who was made aware of the affair by the journalist who questioned him in the mixed zone. ” Really ? I don’t know what to tell you, I’m sure Brahim will be happy, but I don’t know why it happened or what happened. But if Brahim is African champion, we will give him a gift with the whole team”he confided, a little incredulous. There is no doubt that subsequently, internally, the news was widely commented on.
Highly appreciated in the Madrid locker room, and close to Kylian Mbappé in particular, Brahim Diaz therefore experienced a dream evening on Tuesday: a qualification for the quarter-finals of the Champions League while everyone gave Manchester City the winner, and a title of African champion, with two months of delay of course, but which now relegates, while waiting for the Senegalese call, his failed panenka to the rank of bad memory…
