It has been a miserable few months for the Confederation of African Football (Caf) and its South African billionaire president, Patrice Motsepe. On Sunday, he had the chance to clarify a few things, to set the record straight. The decision by Caf’s appeal board to strip Senegal of the Afcon trophy and hand it to Morocco has led to Motsepe facing the most treacherous and, without question, the most challenging period in his five-year presidency of the continent’s football governing body.
“It is very clear to me Motsepe will have to show leadership to find a solution to a problem I think cannot be solved by legal means alone,” a member told me after the CAF executive committee meeting at the Giza Palace hotel in Cairo.
