Joseph Antoine Bell défend Patrice Motsepe : "Il a oublié d'être dictateur comme on aime en Afrique"
Following the CAF disciplinary committee's decision to award Morocco a victory by default against Senegal, criticism intensified against Patrice Motsepe, accused of being a puppet of Gianni Infantino and FIFA. But for Joseph-Antoine Bell, former Cameroon goalkeeper, the CAF president is blamed for all the institution's ills, sometimes unfairly.
"I think Motsepe has forgotten how to be a dictator in the way we like to be in Africa. That is to say, he lets his committees work and the committees make decisions that may even displease him. I see it, I feel it in certain decisions. So, in this case, it was an appeals jury that made this decision and Motsepe has nothing to do with it except to take responsibility for it because it is a committee of the institution he runs," judges the former goalkeeper of Olympique de Marseille.
According to Antoine Bell, there is a lot of leniency towards the CAF member federations, who are not taking responsibility. "Stop saying, 'Motsepe did that.' And above all, teach the federation presidents to feel involved when we say 'the CAF.' Because the CAF is them. So why don't they claim that? Because the CAF is the association of 54 countries, each federation is the association of all its clubs. So what's at the top is reflected at the bottom (...) That's why we see the same behavior at the top where the federation presidents say nothing and the association president is accused of everything without them ever defending him or distancing themselves. What do they contribute? What are their own ideas? Did they defend the idea of holding the AFCON every four years like in their own countries? Did they defend certain ideas or not? There you have it, the federation is reduced to one individual, and later, the CAF will be reduced to one individual," protests the former goalkeeper.
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