Overview
- Motsepe met Senegal’s president and football leaders in Dakar on Wednesday and said he would welcome any corruption investigation into CAF, promising full cooperation.
- CAF said it has begun gathering facts on reports that Senegalese citizens were detained in Morocco, a step Motsepe framed as a duty of care to fans.
- Motsepe declined to debate the final’s outcome because the case is now before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and he reiterated he will respect and implement the court’s ruling.
- Senegal has appealed the CAF Appeals Board’s March 17 decision that used tournament rules on leaving the field to register a 3–0 forfeit and transfer the 2025 AFCON title to Morocco.
- Governance scrutiny deepened after reports that Appeals Committee vice-president Faustino Varela Monteiro opposed awarding the title to Morocco, highlighting dissent within CAF’s own panel.