00:00Beautiful golden ball for a golden trophy here in Morocco.
00:11Here's Aguirre streaking away and lovely touchdown the far side flank and again Sadio Mane.
00:17A little brush on the side of his face it seemed as well but stays on his feet.
00:22Back inside Mane under pressure driven back by Ilhanous.
00:27A minute mark. Delivery out to the far side inside the area swept to safety by Massina.
00:36Corner it'll be. Break from either manager but Sando-Elise.
00:42Away by Hakimi. Beat Egypt.
00:47Delivery. Woodwork and it's in! Senegal with a goal!
00:51Sensational for a moment. The referee signals wait.
00:59Was there a push? Was there a shove?
01:07Final minutes here. Opportunity to feed.
01:11Back post. Steered away by Djur.
01:13Kept alive though.
01:16Tarkhalin.
01:19Hakimi.
01:22Salah Reddin wanted it.
01:25El-Yamik finds El-Enoi.
01:28Now Brian Diaz.
01:28We're going to have a look.
01:29We are going to see.
01:37El-Haji Malik Jouf might just have given Morocco an opportunity to claim it late on here.
01:46Referee has made his decision.
01:50This could define history.
01:52Penalty.
01:55Penalty.
01:58Robert roars.
02:00Senegal scored in the final again having won it in 2021.
02:03He wasn't part of the team in 2019 in the final.
02:08Senegal are marching off.
02:10They're going into the tunnel.
02:12Now that is something I would advise them to do.
02:19Against the directives of the referee.
02:21That is something.
02:22If they have to go to the tunnel.
02:24It has to be a decision that the officials have to take.
02:29This is also not how you want to see an athlete career potentially end.
02:36So Giovanni stays and chats to a man who's coached at this tournament more than any other.
02:42Claude Leroy.
02:45Oh, this is a shame.
02:46Because this is, it's been a wonderful tournament and we don't need it to end like this.
02:51Giovanni.
02:52There are appeals.
02:55For Sergio Manet.
02:57To keep Senegal on the park, I suspect.
03:00And he's calling his players back.
03:03He's calling his teammates back.
03:06That's Sergio Manet.
03:07The man who's got 20 goal contributions across 29 starts at an Africa Cup of Nations.
03:1711 goals, 9 assists.
03:20But this is a man who continues to prove as well.
03:22And I think he's going to go and fetch his teammates from the change room.
03:25He continues to inspire and he continues to remind us that value doesn't lie in titles.
03:32It doesn't lie in money.
03:34It doesn't lie in applause.
03:35It lies in the courage to rise from the humblest beginnings and carry as many people along with you on your way up.
03:43Like this, the teammates are coming back onto the pitch now.
03:48If the referee blows the penalty, the rule says you have to respect the decisions of the referee.
03:56Furthermore, the penalty has not been stored yet.
03:58You can understand the frustration.
04:03But it is certainly not something you want to see.
04:09When we expected drama in a final, we did not expect this kind of drama.
04:14Robert roars and erupts, but for a very different reason than the one they considered they might.
04:40Well, at the crisis, at the moment of crisis, at the dawned hour, Brayden Diaz.
04:49And here's a man who's got all the mental strength in the world.
04:52Maybe lost a yard or two of pace, Sadio Mane, but he inspires an attack.
04:56Senegal thrust forward.
04:58Popgate!
05:03Sensational, stellar, supreme Senegal!
05:07Maybe an extra time, they've produced the moment.
05:11And it's Popgate with his third of the tournament.
05:16Senegal score their first ever goal in an African Cup of Nations final.
05:23And it is utterly outstanding.
05:27Mane-inspired build-up.
05:29Popgate finishes with aplomb.
05:31And Senegal lead as the Lions of Taronga roar loudest in Rabat.
05:38What a strike.
05:42Look at this.
05:44The bat.
05:45The final whistle and Senegal seal.
05:52A sensational success.
05:55Sadio Mane becomes only the third player ever to win multiple AFGOT titles
06:01to go along with multiple Cap African Men's Player of the Year awards.
06:06He's in a league of his own with Raja Mila and Samuel Eto'o.
06:12Senegal succeed again.
06:14Samuels.
06:17Protests.
06:18A star of the Adla League goalie.
06:21Still go through the motions, but of course, it is a very difficult thing.
06:26For me, that's what I hope has shown Alvaro Arbeloa
06:30and the new Real Madrid staff that he should be playing a lot more minutes
06:38than he had been playing at Real Madrid.
06:52That is the big takeaway for Brian Diaz.
06:54It's going to be a difficult thing to shake, but it should be a positive outcome for him.
07:03For the tournament.
07:03Sadio Mane, of course.
07:06Legend.
07:06An absolute legend.
07:09Well, the sport, a legend in this country.
07:12A legend in the Premier League.
07:16I don't know what's going to happen after the World Cup,
07:18but he is done with the AFGOT.
07:19That he has made sure of.
07:26And he wins the man of the tournament.
07:29Player of the tournament.
07:31For the captain of Senegal, the twice champion of the AFGOT.
07:35And Senegal is the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
08:00And look at that lifting.
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