{"id":56308,"date":"2026-03-18T10:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56308"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:45:06","slug":"le-roy-we-know-how-caf-is-managed-and-senegal-will-regain-its-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56308","title":{"rendered":"Le Roy: We know how CAF is managed and Senegal will regain its right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Le Roy, the former coach of several African national teams, criticized the Confederation of African Football&#8217;s (CAF) decision to strip Senegal of the Africa Cup title, describing it as &#8220;absurdity&#8221; planned behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement, Le Roy said, &#8220;I could not imagine for a single second that the Confederation of African Football could go to this level of absurdity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;We know very well how CAF is managed by Motsepe, who from the beginning strongly wanted to grant this African Cup to Morocco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The French technician also emphasized that &#8220;for years, CAF decisions have been trampled upon, and behind all this are many behind-the-scenes maneuvers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;We are in an election period, and we can understand what happened in order to ultimately decide on crowning Morocco as champion. I believe all of this is not over yet, and Senegal will regain its right at the end of this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Le Roy, the former coach of several African national teams, criticized the Confederation of African Football&#8217;s (CAF) decision to strip Senegal of the Africa Cup title, describing it as &#8220;absurdity&#8221; planned behind the scenes. In a press statement, Le Roy said, &#8220;I could not imagine for a single second that the Confederation of African &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}