The Maddest Match Ever? - The Story Behind the AFCON Final Controversy - video Dailymotion

Senegal and Morocco played out one of the most dramatic matches ever in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final

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00:00So for me it was hard because I would aim it, I would prefer to lose than to finish like this.

00:10The image that we have given to Africa today is a bit honteux.

00:13When a coach asks his players to get out of the ground.

00:30What are the details?

00:44These are the details.

00:46We saw that the Senegalese were in the vestiaire.

00:49We were a little dégoûtés of our fusée.

01:00I think it would have been really sad and sad to see a final finish like this.

01:17What Pape did this evening, it does not honor Africa.

01:20It is not good, but it is not true.

01:23He is a champion of Africa so he has the right to say what he wants.

01:26We stopped the match for at least 10 minutes.

01:30It is not a excuse for the way he came to pull.

01:47But we will not come back.

01:48He came to this way.

01:49We will take it as a coach.

01:52I had a feeling of fierté, we had to win this evening.

02:04We all saw what happened at the end of the match, but we decided to come back to the

02:12end of the match, and we had to win this match.