A senior Confederation of African Football (CAF) figure has denounced the decision to strip Senegal of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title and award it to Morocco.
Augustin Senghor, CAF executive committee member and former Senegal FA president, told BBC World Service:
“Football is fair play, football is played on the field, not in offices… To take the trophy and give it to Morocco… is something very abject. We have to denounce it.”
Senghor accused CAF of bowing to pressure from Morocco’s federation and vowed Senegal would appeal:
“I am sure that if we go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport then we will win and the trophy will never leave Senegal.”
He called the ruling “unacceptable” and “in violation of our rules and FIFA’s laws of the game,” insisting Senegal will fight what he described as unprecedented injustice in African football.
