"Il n'aurait pas dû être là" : Patrice Motsepe reconnaît une erreur dans le jury qui a retiré la CAN au Sénégal
Moez Nasri, president of the Tunisian Football Federation, should not have been part of the disciplinary committee that stripped Senegal of the 2025 African Championship title and awarded it to Morocco by default. In a press conference following the CAF Executive Committee meeting, the institution's president, Patrice Motsepe, acknowledged the wrongdoing.
According to journalist Romain Molina, Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), admitted that the presence of Moez Nasri, president of the Tunisian Football Federation, on the Appeals Committee was a mistake. This occurred during a press conference on Sunday, March 29, 2025.
“When I was informed that one of the people (among the appeals judges) was the president of one of our football associations, I replied, ‘But what on earth is this? How did he end up there?’ They gave me all these legal explanations, but I said, this guy shouldn’t have been there,” said a surprised Motsepe. These remarks have exacerbated the criticism against Patrice Motsepe, who, according to several observers, is no longer in control at CAF.
For the CAF president, the necessary lessons must be learned from this affair in order to move forward. "Of course, we must learn from these kinds of things, you know… (he hesitates, searching for his words) and part of this learning rests on a fundamental sense of humility. (…) He (Moez Nasri of Tunisia) shouldn't have been there! We need more rigor," the South African official confided.
While Senegal has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the presence of Moez Nasri could constitute a procedural flaw that could invalidate the decision of the CAF disciplinary committee.
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