Senegal midfielder Idrissa Gueye has launched a scathing attack on the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This comes after seeing his nation sensationally stripped of their Africa Cup of Nations title, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the ruling to award the trophy to Morocco is simply ridiculous, and the Lions of Teranga remain the rightful champions of the continent.
Gueye added that he believes footballing merit should always outweigh administrative rulings.
His words, “I think this decision is just ridiculous. We won the game on the pitch not in offices and as a Senegalese player I’m just proud of what we did. We deserve this trophy. We fight on the pitch and everyone knows what happened and I think if you play 10 times this game we would win it 10 times.
Not because we are better than Morocco but because it was our destiny because we gave everything on the pitch and we deserve to be champions. We really don’t care about medals, about trophies, because the most important thing is on the pitch and not what you write on the paper. On the pitch we won it and no-one can change this.
Africa doesn’t need this type of decision because everyone has started to talk about AFCON and compare it against Europe and the Copa America. I think Africa doesn’t deserve this.”
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