In the mouth of an athlete, defeat is always bitter. The perfect time for him to do some introspection while avoiding wasting away with excuses that will make him look like a loser in disguise.
Insolation
HIGHLIGHTS | Morocco🆚 South Africa | Summary of the match between Morocco and South Africa #TotalEnergiesAFCON2023 – CAF TV
Taking stock of his CAN 2023, Walid Regragui attacked the climate of Côte d’Ivoire.
« We have not adapted well to the atmosphere and humidity. We started preparation more than ten days before the start of the competition in San Pedro. We benefit from the best conditions available. There were very difficult climatic conditions, but we should not take them as an argument for our elimination”dropped the Moroccan coach a few weeks after declaring that he would resign if his team did not reach the semi-finals in Babi. A promise that he did not keep, since he stayed to attack the sky in a monologue already seen and heard. A sunburn we’ll say…
When the semi-finalist of the 2022 World Cup saw himself in the last four of CAN 2023, he knew full well where he was going to put his crampons: that he could win in this clearing. In January in Sub-Saharan Africa, the climate is difficult for everyone there. Even for its nationals, it’s complicated to do sport in this weather. Reason why cooling breaks were imposed during the meetings, in order to make everyone breathe. Not just the North African selections.
So far the only sunstroke officially recorded at a CAN, even if unusual, is that of a sub-Saharan: Janny Sikazwe during the Mali – Tunisia meeting in Cameroon in 2022. Now retired, the Zambian referee then created a huge uproar by whistling the end of the match twice before the 90 minutes.
Insolence
CAN-2015: Reactions of Moroccans after their exclusion from the competition – France 24
High-level football is played in snow, rain and sun. Sunny periods are also the most popular for events of this type. We just avoid extremes.
To attack the climate when you lose is to have the wrong opponent. There are pyromaniac summers in Europe, but a European will never say that he lost the Euro because it was too hot. If African football decision-makers have scheduled matches at these times, it is because not all footballers are in danger. When Brazil goes to Bolivia, they prepare to play at altitude.
CAN 2015 maintained next January, Morocco disappointed – FOOTBALL – France 24
Furthermore, behind this denial lies a real lack of respect towards the inhabitants of this area. It’s like saying that a normally constituted human being is not capable of living there, when some people grow up in the desert.
A people is its climate. To criticize a person for their atmosphere is to doubt their right to exist. We are born with the climate: we cannot change it. It has a strong and daily impact on the eating, clothing and cognitive habits of its populations. One day we will tell sub-Saharan people that they cannot organize the CAN because it is too humid on their roofs.
Incongruities
Cameroon vs Egypt (Final) – Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana 2008 – CAF TV
North African, Egypt has won 3 of its 7 CAN south of the Sahara: in Burkina Faso in 1998, in Ghana in 2008 and in Angola in 2010. The only star of the jersey of Lions of the Atlas is from Ethiopia, the land of men with burnt faces, in translation…
Basically, Morocco has never won in its closest environment. Of the 11 victories of theUNAF at the CAN, 4, namely almost half, were made in Sub-Saharan Africa. The thesis of the exception is therefore inconceivable, in this climate that its members face every year during the qualifiers.
Indomitable
Morocco v Benin Highlights – Total AFCON 2019 – R1 – CAF TV
It starts as a lizard and ends as a Nile crocodile. Darwinism is the king of bad faith. In 2019 at the foot of the Pyramids, ON… accused the Beninese of having moved the post when Ziyech missed the winning penalty, and participated in the elimination of his team in the second round of the competition. And yet the Cheetahsold Squirrelscould just stop time and restore it once the trophy was in their hands, after playing with 12 in the final, like their Ivorian neighbors:
“Yes, I made Côte d’Ivoire win 100%. My late grandfather Yao Benoît, chef, played the match with the Elephants. That the government keeps this team, the technical management, the leaders of the FIF, as well as the supervisory minister,” explains Aziz 47, a recognized Ivorian witch doctor, on the NCI channel, according to comments taken up by the site yop.l-frii.com :
“I slept in the cemetery during every Elephants match. I can confirm that it is thanks to me that Ivory Coast won CAN 2023. The ox that I killed allowed Sébastien Haller to run on the field again. »
In short, the Cherifians, among the Pharaohsleft in eighth grade to do better in Cameroon, curiously, where their premises won the CHAN hands down in 2020. They had come with their infrastructure in their suitcases to leave in the quarters, with closed faces, pushed aside by the Egyptians after a pharaonic brawl in the corridors of the OMNISPORTS Stadium in Yaoundé. The capital of this country that Djamel Belmadi now sees in all his nightmares.
Impasse
🏆🌍 CAN 2021 🇩🇿 Djamel Belmadi’s mind-blowing press conference! – beIN Sport
When football wants to punish you, it presents you with a fait accompli. At CAN 2021, the former Algerian coach exhausted all possible excuses for a North African country losing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
It was the sun, the humidity, the pitch, the stadium, the locker rooms, the hotels, COVID and finally witchcraft that had prevented the Desert Warriors to beat Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea. A Cameroon that they had to leave last, to cross paths again on their path. Amazement! How is it possible ? The gift of ubiquity? Dams…
Algeria Vs Cameroon – Djamel Belmadi angry with Gassama – AfricaPresse
A goal from Slimani, an Algerian victory at Japoma and the technician celebrates his birthday with great fanfare. Everything is becoming beautiful again in Douala. We dance and toast to the future which announces the mischievous smile on the face, a logical qualification in Blida, when suddenly…
After Toko Ekambi’s goal, we found Belmadi on the ground and in tears. We are no longer in Cameroon, the health crisis is over, the lawn is good, the climate is perfect, the sun has set, the moon has risen, it is night, the stars are shining but Algeria does not sees more of his own. In a venue where she had never lost… what happened? We messed with them!
Unsustainable
ALGERIA VS CAMEROON 1-2 DEBRIEF (IN SHOCK) – Mohammed Nenni
For the Algerians, the non-qualification for the World Cup in Qatar was experienced as a magnitude 9 earthquake. After demonstrating in front of FIFA, filing a complaint, calling Eto’o all the names to remove the Cameroonians from the list of 32, they still have not forgotten this March 29, 2022.
Once the shock was over, we were again treated to a string of pretexts which failed to exorcise the evil contained by Djamel Belmadi. Referee of this Algeria – Cameroon, Mr. Gassama and the CAF were washed, dried and perfectly ironed by the main person responsible for the failures of the Algerian national team.
HIGHLIGHTS | Mauritania 🆚 Algeria | Summary of the match between Mauritania and Algeria #TotalEnergiesAFCON2023 – MD3 – CAF TV
After accusing the whole world, DB, Z on occasion, created a deleterious climate in his collective. Benrahma as witness, he attacked his own players, before returning in conflict with his federation. It must be said that after two successive eliminations in the first round, without glory and without victories, during two CAN at 24 where the four best thirds are qualified, global warming becomes an alibi. chouya ridicule.
Yes for the second star on the list, but no! The FAF is a serious institution which expects credible results. Algerians will not swallow snakes all the time. As Luis Fernandez would say: “success needs no explanation, failure admits of no justification ».