Caf News 76

Official publication of Confdration Africaine de Football
No. 76, September/Septembre 2002
Al Hadji Diouf
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CAF in the City of 6 October
tanding on Guezira island, just two steps away from Cairo Tower, a monument built in 1961 under the late Gamal AbdelNassers reign, next to the facilities of the popular Nadi al Ahly and the Anglo-American hospital and not far from the elite Guezira Sporting Club two buildings of 3 floors each stand next to each other. The first one houses the offices of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), the second, located at 5 Gabalaya street is, since 1st October 1973, the headquarters of the Confdration Africaine de Football (CAF). It will not be there anymore starting 20th October. During many long years, CAF (born, lets remind it, on the 8th February 1957 in Khartoum), has found a shelter in the premises of the EFA and thus had its headquarters at number 3 of El Hadiqa street, in the opulent residential neighbourhood of Garden-City in Cairo. Hospitality imposed at that time because of the weakness of income of the young continental organisation and also because of a good functioning concern. The situation unblocked thanks to two mens initiatives who are no longer among us today. The first is the late marshal Abdelhakim Amer who was the president of the Egyptian Federation in the late fifties. He was able to convince the Nadi al Ahly to cede a plot of land from Guezira. In 1960. EFA built there its actual headquarters, where CAF occupied an office in 1961. The second one, the late Mourad Fahmy, General Secretary from1961 to 1982, went to great lengths so that the continental organisation could have its own premises. Thanks to advances on the annual subvention of 2000 pounds granted to CAF by the Egyptian Olympic Committee, he had constituted a substantial saving. He obtained from EFA the authorisation of having a pavilion without floors built on a land belonging to EFA. While at it, Mourad Fahmy pulled also an advantageous contract to the civil engineering company Atlas. For 7000 pounds, the latter constructed a building of six rooms among which, a meeting room and a large entry hall. The building was received on the 1st October 1973. One year later, EFA agreed with CAF to build an extra floor that it occupied until 1989. In September 1988, under the impulse of the new president of CAF, Issa Hayatou, elected in Casablanca on 8th March, the Executive Committee decided to proceed to the renovation and enlargement of the headquarters. The renovation work entrusted to al Bana company, started on the 15th March 1989 and lasted six months. On the 21st September, president Hayatou and the governor of Cairo inaugurated the new CAF House. The latter occupied two floors and an area of 520 m2. A third floor was built. It housed first the technical department of CAF. But during 1993, CAF reclaimed it, renewed it and put in place a large meeting room and offices. CAF House had 750 m2 and sheltered a permanent staff of 25 members. On the 8th July 1996, president Hayatou and the president of the Supreme Council of Sports in Egypt, Mr Abdel Moneim Amara signed a headquarters agreement between CAF and the Egyptian government. From now on, the latter recognised CAF as a non-governmental international organisation having its headquarters in Egypt. CAF enjoys all the privileges granted to similar organisations working on the Egyptian territory, that is to say: - Its headquarters and its documents have diplomatic immunity - All the material imported by CAF is exempted of governmental taxes - The staff of CAF are not to be the object of any pressure neither from the government, nor the sports authorities of the country. The expansion of CAF, its activities and its competitions and
La CAF du 6 Octobre
le de Guezira, deux pas de la Tour du Caire, monument difi en 1961 sous le rgne de feu Gamal Abdelnasser, jouxtant les installations du populaire Nadi al Ahly et lhpital anglo-amricain, non loin de llitiste Guezira Sporting Club, se dressent deux pavillons de trois tages. Le premier abrite les bureaux de lEgyptian Football Association (EFA), le second sis au numro 5 de la rue Gabalaya est depuis le 1er octobre 1973, le sige de la Confdration Africaine de Football (CAF). Il ne le sera plus partir du 20 octobre. De longues annes durant, la CAF (ne, rappelons-le le 8 fvrier 1957 Khartoum), trouv refuge dans les locaux de lEFA et eut ainsi son premier sige au numro 3 de la rue El Hadiqa, dans lopulent quartier rsidentiel de Garden-City au Caire . Une hospitalit impose par, lpoque, la faiblesse des revenus de la jeune organisation continentale et aussi par le souci dun bon fonctionnement. La situation se dbloqua grce aux inititives de deux hommes, aujourdhui disparus. Le premier, feu le marchal Abdelhakim Amer prsidait dans la fin des annes 50 la Fdration gyptienne. A ce titre, il tait parvenu convaincre le Nadi al Ahly de cder une parcelle de terrain Gezira. LEFA y difia en 1960 son sige actuel o, en fvrier 1961, la CAF y occupa un bureau. Le second, feu Mourad Fahmy, secrtaire gnral de 1961 1982, allait se dmener pour que lorganisation continentale dispose de ses propres locaux. Grce des avances sur la subvention annuelle de 2000 livres accorde la CAF par le Comit olympique gyptien, il avait constitu une pargne substantielle. Il obtint de lEFA la permission de faire btir sur un terrain appartenant celle-ci, un pavillon sans tage. Mourad Fahmy arracha dans la foule un contrat avantageux l'entreprise de travaux publics Atlas. Celleci, pour 7000 livres, difia une btisse de six pices dont une salle de runion et un spacieux hall dentre. Ldifice est rceptionn le 1er octobre 1973. Un an plus tard, lEFA saccorda avec la CAF pour le surlever dun tage supplmentaire quelle occupera jusquen 1989. En septembre 1988, sous limpulsion du nouveau prsident de la CAF, Issa Hayatou, lu le 8 mars Casablanca, le Comit excutif dcide de faire procder la rnovation et lagrandissement du sige. Les travaux confis lentreprise al Bana dbutent le 15 mars 1989 et durent six mois. Le 21 septembre, le prsident Hayatou et le gouverneur de la ville du Caire inaugurent la nouvelle CAF House. Celle-ci occupe deux tages et une superficie de 520 m2. Un troisime tage est construit. Il abrite dans un premier temps le dpartement technique de lEFA. Mais au cours de lanne 1993, la CAF le rcupre, le rnove et installe une grande salle de runion et des bureaux. CAF House passe alors 750 m2 et abrite un personnel permanent de 25 membres. Le 8 juillet 1996, le prsident Hayatou et le prsident du Conseil suprme de la Jeunesse et des Sports dEgypte, M. Abdel Moneim Amara signent laccord de sige entre la CAF et le gouvernement gyptien. Celui-ci reconnat dsormais la CAF comme un organisme international non gouvernemental ayant son sige en Egypte . La CAF bnficie de tous les privilges accords aux organismes similaires oprant sur le territoire gyptien savoir : - son sige et ses documents jouissent de limmunit diplomatique - tout le matriel import par la CAF est exempt des taxes gouvernementales - le personnel de la CAF ne fait lobjet daucune pression ni de la part du gouvernement ni des autorits sportives du pays.
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the necessity of reinforcing the human resources department and hire new substantial employees in order to take up the challenges of modern technology, have led the Executive Committee members, gathered in Cairo on the 29th July, to approve president Hayatous proposition of acquiring a land in the City of 6 October (30 km from Cairo) and construct there new headquarters. On 6th May 2001, the breaking stone was placed in the presence of the Egyptian Minister of Sports and the president of FIFA. Eighteen months later, the opening of CAF House, is scheduled. It will be effective on the 20th October in the presence of all African and World football personalities. The visitors of CAF House will remember without doubt the old pavilion of Guezira full of charm, but they will be positively surprised by the modernity, the comfort and the functionality of the new headquarters. CAF has always felt at home in Cairo. And CAF wishes that Cairo could be always proud of it, even if the house that has grown, has moved from Guezira to the City of 6 October.
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Editorial Mondial 2002:The proud lions Epic Lpope des lions dorgueil The African teams in Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup 2002 Korea/Japan The new Headquarters of CAF le Nouveau Sige de la CAF An opportunity not to be missed Une opportunit ne pas manquer Whats the use of football coaches? Des entraneurs de football pour quoi faire? CAF Standing committees 2002-2004 Commissions de la CAF 2002-2004 African refereeing in he World Cup Larbitrage la Coupe du monde The Road to Tunisia 2002 Objectif Tunisie 2004 CAN 2004 CAF Champions League CAF Cup winners cup 2002 The CAF Cup 2002 The African U-17 Champioship 2003 African Youth Championship 2003 The Third African Women Championship Mohamed Ahmed passed away
Lexpansion de la CAF, de ses activits et de ses comptitions et la ncessit de renforcer le dpartement des ressources humaines et doprer de nouvelles embauches substantielles afin de relever les dfis de la technologie moderne ont amen les membres du Comit excutif, runis le 29 juillet 2000 au Caire , approuver la proposition du prsident Hayatou dacqurir un terrain dans la Cit du 6-octobre ( 30 km du Caire) et dy difier un nouveau sige. Le 6 mai 2001, la premire pierre est pose en prsence du ministre gyptien de la Jeunesse et des Sports et du prsident de la FIFA. Dix-huit mois aprs, louverture de la nouvelle CAF House est programme. Elle sera effective le 20 octobre en prsence de toute lAfrique du football et du prsident de la plante foot. Les visiteurs de CAF House se souviendront sans doute de lancien pavillon plein de charme de Gezira mais ils seront positivement- surpris par la modernit, le confort et la fonctionnalit du nouveau sige. La CAF sest toujours sentie chez elle au Caire. Et la CAF veut que le Caire soit fier quil en soit et en reste ainsi, mme si la maison qui sest agrandie, a dmnag de Gezira la Cit du 6-octobre. CAF News
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M o n d i a l The Proud Lions Epic 2 0 0 2 L pope des Lions d orgueil
t is 22h30 on Saturday 22nd June in Nagai, Osaka. Some 45 000 spectators wearing red and white tee-shirts hold their breath in the extra time of the Senegal-Turkey quarterfinal of the 2002 World Cup. Suddenly Reber Rst the giant Turkish goalkeeper with his black coloured face, throws the ball to his teammate Erdem Arif, who lobs the Senegalese defender Omar Daf. The ball is picked up by the 'Mohican' Davala Umit, who screams down the right wing and passes to the young Mansiz Ilhan. In turn, Ilhan runs past fullback Lamine Diatta and beats Senegal's goalkeeper Tony Sylva. It was the 'golden goal' that propelled Hakan Sukur and his team mates to the semifinal. It was also the 'sudden death' for the Lions of Teranga, putting an end to their Asian adventure. Standing taken aback, the Senegalese team took some time to pull themselves together before beginning a lap of honour. No great grief nor heavy tears but meaningful looks about their profound disappointment and comforting hugs, as if they all accepted an inescapable destiny in front of the remarkable Turkish players. Only Khalilou Fadiga dared to rebel, quite timidly, against the misfortune that has followed
amedi 22 juin, il est 22h 30 au stade Nagai dOsaka. 45 000 spectateurs en majorit vtus dun maillot rouge frapp dun croissant et dune toile blancs retiennent leur souffle pour vivre les prolongations du quart de finale du Mondial 2002, Sngal Turquie. Soudain Reber Rst, le gant gardien turc au visage bariol de noir relance la main lintention de son coquipier Erdem Arif qui excute un grond pont sur le dfenseur sngalais Omar Daf. Le ballon est rcupr par le Mohican Davala Umit qui senfonce sur laile droite et effectue du droit un centre pour le jeune Mansiz Ilhan. Ce dernier devance le stoppeur Lamine Diatta et, aprs le rebond, reprend le cuir sans contrle de lintrieur du pied pour tromper Tony Sylva. Cest le but en or qui propulse Hakan Skur et ses frres en demi-finale. Cest aussi pour les Lions de la Teranga, la mort subite qui met un terme laventure asiatique. Sonns debout, les Sngalais mettent quelque temps se reprendre avant dentamer un tour dhonneur. Pas de grande tristesse ni de grosses larmes mais des regards qui en disent sur leur profonde dception et des treintes de
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him this year: missing out in the final of African Nations Cup, missing out on the French league title in the last days of the championship and an exit with mixed results from the World Cup. The elimination from Osaka has not worn down in the least but the indescribable joy of a whole people proud of their magnificent Lions. Senegalese football has experienced from 1968 to 1999 more disappointments than moments of joy. The trigger happened on the afternoon of the 22nd August 1999, in the altitude of Asmara, capital of Eritrea. That day, 11 Senegalese among whom Henri Camara, led by a German volunteer madly in love with Africa, Peter Schnittger, overcame, in a play-off match, the Eritrean team (2-0) and grabbed a ticket to 2000 African Nations Cup finals in Ghana and Nigeria. The return to Dakar of Asmara's heroes unleashed a formidable popular passion. Several months later, with Schnittger still at the helm, the team of Senegal was reinforced by European-based players like Fadiga, Malick Papa Diop, Moussa Ndiaye, Omar Daf, Pape Sarr. Together with the inevitable Henri Camara, they succeeded quite well in Kano and left the tournament only after standing up to the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the quarter final (1-2). One must take account of it subsequently. Peter Schnittger's job in Senegal, which held since October 1994, ended on November 3. "He was able to impart, wrote "L'Info de Dakar" to a group to which he gave birth, a winner's mentality, a German determination, a tactical maturity and allowed them to reconquer the public's esteem". The Sports Minister Joseph Ndong bestowed on him the Senegalese Order of Merit as a token of acknowledgement "towards a man considered as the good Lebou of Ouakam called Peter Gueye". After Schnittger's departure, the President of the Senegalese Federation El Hadj Malick Sy went looking for a man in a million. Pape Diouf, former journalist from Marseilles now working as players' agent, directed him towards the Frenchman Bruno Metsu, who hailed from the north of France and had played some 400 professional matches at Dunkerque, Anderlecht, Valenciennes, Lille, Nice, Roubaix and Beauvais. He was a coach who had worked extensively in the second divisions before finding himself unemployed. He got back on his feet in Guinea for two months before landing in Dakar in November 2000. Metsu said he had "fallen in love with a continent where one can find values lost in Europe: human warmth, friendliness and solidarity". With curly hair falling on his shoulder, sky blue eyes nearly transparent, metallic, a bit cold, Metsu displayed an unfailingly relaxed attitude. He adopted the country's customs and changed without effort from fried mussels to the "tiboudienne". For his debut, the qualifiers of the 2002 Nations Cup finals offered him travel to the source of the Nile, to Kampala where Senegal played against Uganda's Cranes. He did not alter the team handed down by Schnittger and, with eight Europeanbased players, reaped his first point (1-1). But already, in his head, he had chosen his strategy which was to be: resorting only to Senefs (Senegalese from France). Firstly, because he knew the professional players' mentality in France and secondly because he could follow easily the Senefs' performances in the French championship and because he had more information about their physical conditioning, which he got by consulting directly with his coaching colleagues. Thirdly, because
consolation comme sils acceptaient tous un destin inluctable face des Turcs remarquables manieurs de balle qui les auront fait courir avant de leur porter lestocade. Seul Khalilou Fadiga osa se rvolter, assez timidement il est vrai, contre linfortune qui le poursuit cette anne : finale rate de la CAN 2002, titre de champion de France vanoui dans les ultimes journes et sortie en demi-teinte de la Coupe du monde. Llimination Osaka na en rien entam lindicible bonheur de tout un peuple fier de ses Lions dorgueil. Le football sngalais a connu de 1968 1999 plus de dboires que de moments de joie. Le dclic est survenu dans laprs-midi du dimanche 22 aut 1999, sur les hauteurs dAsmara, capitale de lErytre. Ce jour-l, onze Sngalais dont un certain Henri Camara, conduits par un cooprant allemand fou amoureux de lAfrique, Peter Schnittger, dominaient, loccasion dun match de repchage, la slection rytrenne (2-0) et arrachaient un ticket pour la phase finale de la CAN 2000. Le retour Dakar des hros dAsmara dclencha un formidable engouement populaire. Quelques mois plus tard, avec Schnittger toujours la barre, lquipe du Sngal renforce par les pros Fadiga, Malick Papa Diop, Moussa Ndiaye, Omar Daf, Pape Sarr et lincontournable Henri Camara, russissait un bon parcours Kano et ne quittait le tournoi quaprs avoir tenu tte aux Super Eagles du Nigeria en quart de finale (1-2). Il fallait dsormais compter avec elle. La mission de Peter Schnittger en poste au Sngal depuis octobre 1994, sachve le 3 novembre. Il a su, crit LInfo de Dakar, inculquer un groupe quil a enfant un mental de gagneur, une dtermination allemande, de la maturit tactique et lui a permis de reconqurir lestime du public. Le ministre des Sports et des Loisirs Joseph Ndong le dcore de lOrdre du mrite sngalais en signe de reconnaissance envers un homme considr comme un bon Lbou de Ouakam du nom de Peter Gueye . Schnittger parti, le prsident de la Fdration sngalaise El Hadj Malick Sy semploie dnicher loiseau rare. Pape Diouf, ancien journalistemarseillais reconverti dans le foot business (il est agent de joueurs) laiguille sur le Franais Bruno Metsu. Un Nordiste aux 400 matchs professionnels Dunkerque, Anderlecht, Valenciennes, Lille, Nice, Roubaix et Beauvais. Un entraneur qui a bourlingu en Division II avant de se retrouver au chmage qui aurait pu tre de longue dure si notre technicien navait pas dabord rebondi pour deux mois en Guine avant datterrir Dakar en novembre 2000. Parce que tomb amoureux dun continent o lon retrouve des valeurs quon a perdues en Europe : chaleur humaine, convivialit et solidarit. Les cheveux boucls tombant sur les paules, le regard bleu ciel presque transparent, mtallique, un peu froid, Metsu affiche une dcontraction toute preuve. Il adopte les us et les coutumes du pays et passe sans effort des moule-frites au tiboudienne. Pour ses dbuts, les liminatoires de la CAN 2002 lui offrent un dplacement aux sources du Nil Kampala o le Sngal doit en dcoudre avec les Uganda Cranes. Il ne bouleverse pas leffectif lgu par Schnittger et aligne huit pros et rcolte son premier point (1-1). Mais dj dans sa tte, il a choisi sa stratgie : recourir exclusivement aux Snefs (Sngalais de France). Un, parce quil connat bien la mentalit des footballeurs professionnels dans lHexagone. Deux, parce quil peut plus facilement suivre les performances des Snefs (dont la quasi-totalit na jamais volu auSngal) dans le
he knew perfectly well that all the expatriates, from Tony Sylva to Henri Camara, were in need of greater acknowledgement. Indeed, many among them had gone through difficult times with the clubs, sometimes underrated or their qualities bullied. One had to rid them of their complexes and love them, Metsu decided. Metsu also believed in consultation with his players and in their participation in all aspects of the team. He believed totally in freedom and the expression on and off the field. That is how a beautiful love story began between an anarcho-libertarian coach and the football rebels. Metsu convinced Ferdinand Coly, Salif Diao and El Hadj Diouf to come back and appointed Aliou Cisse, Amara Traore and Diao as group leaders. February 24, 2001, they were among the 11 Senefs chosen to oppose the might of Morocco. They overcame their opponents and deserved a win if it were not for an error by the Zimbabwean referee Felix Tangawarima, who denied them a valid goal. It was the start of a long march that would take them to 2002 Nations Cup finals and then to the World Cup finals in Asia. Victories over Namibia (4-0 and 5-0), Algeria (3-0 and 1-0), Morocco (1-0) and Uganda (3-0) and defeats by Egypt (0-1) and Togo (0-1) was their record. Ten goals scored by El Hadj Diouf and two by Henri Camara. Mission accomplished. In October, Metsu had to negotiate the extension of his contract. His employers dragged their heels. He threatened to quit but ended up obtaining a contract until 2003. At the same time, the players, through Salif Diao, were demanding a substantial increase in their bonuses, otherwise they would not play at the Nations Cup tournament in Mali. The football officials were compelled to begin tense negotiations in France. The demands were met and everything was back in order. In Bamako, Bruno Metsu's troops clashed and irritated with their disrespectful behaviour towards the established rules. On the field however, they provided a minimum performance. No great offensive surges, no panache but results grabbed, which lead them to the final. The duel they had with the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon was ruthless and only penalty kicks could decide between them. The Cameroonians kept their title and Dakar received their Lions as heroes. The World Cup, and especially the opening match against France on May 31 in Seoul, was on the horizon. "We are going to go there," declared Aliou Cisse, "we want to get past the first round and it's feasible. Pressure? It is the Blues who are going to get it. Boasting? Not at all," he said. Events would prove the Lions' captain was right. Metsu prepared for the confrontation with the world champions. He knew that the Frenchmen underestimated, on the technical, physical and moral level, his players' potential and that he would not need to motivate much. He only needed to put in place a tactical plan to block Lemerre's troops. Senegal came up as a homogeneous, compact and united team. Cisse and his teammates pulled all their energies together, carrying out the defensive instructions to the letter and taking advantage of the technical subtlety, boldness and audacity of their strikers, Fadiga and Diouf. The latter pierced the French rear lines several times and offered to the "monster" Pape Bouba Diop a historical goal (1-0). In confronting Denmark, Metsu followed his instincts and adapted his tactics to the opponent's characteristics.
Hadji Diouf championnat de Division I et avoir plus dinformations sur leur tat physique en consultant directement ses confrres. Trois, parce quil sait parfaitement que tous les expatris, de Tony Silva Henri Camara, ont grandement soif de reconnaissance. Beaucoup dentre eux ont en effet travers des moments difficiles avec les clubs qui les ont forms et ont perdu du temps dans dautres o on les msestims ou brim leurs qualits. Il fallait les dcomplexer et les aimer. Quatre, parce quil entend, grce un management de convivialit et de complicit et une pdagogie de groupe permissive, gagner la confiance de joueurs rputs caractriels et rebelles toute discipline rigoureuse. Cinq, parce quil croit totalement dans la libert et celle-ci sexprime en dehors du terrain et dans le jeu quil veut beau et conqurant. Ainsi commence une belle histoire damour entre un coach anarcho-libertaire et des rebelles du ballon. Metsu convainc Ferdinand Coly, Salif Diao et El Hadji Diouf de reprendre du service et dsigne Aliou Ciss, Amara Traor et Diao comme leaders du groupe. Concrtement, le 24 fvrier 2001, Rabat, ce sont onze Snefs qui sont aligns face au Maroc. Ils en imposent leurs adversaires et mritent de lemporter nest-ce une erreur dapprciation de larbitre zimbabwen Flix Tangawarima qui leur refuse un but valable. Cest le dpart dune longue marche qui les mnera
Aliou Cisse However, everything started to go wrong for the Senegalese team. From the very first beginning, Diao's fouls on Tomasson cost the Africans, allowing the Scandinavians to lead (0-1) through a penalty. The Lions took their time to recover. The entry of the whimsical Henri Camara gave them wings. Fadiga served Diao, who redeemed himself by equalising (1-1). He did not complete the match as he got a yellow and then a red card and would be suspended for two matches. With four points, the passage to the second round was within reach of the Africans. On June 11th, in Suwon, led by the master Fadiga, the Lions blew up the defence of Uruguay: three goals before half-time, two of which by the colossal Pape Bouba Diop. In the second half, the South Americans launched an attack on Sylva's goal and he conceded three times. In the extra time, Diatta rescued Senegal with a goal line clearance. It could well have eliminated them. With 3-3, Senegal had five points. Following Morocco (1986), Cameroon (1990), Nigeria (1994 and 1998), they became the fourth African country to get past the first round of the World Cup. A leap forward, which led to a "Senegalomania", whereas the French were eliminated, packed and left Korea. "Football in Senegal," commented the Swiss technician Daniel Jeandupeux, "is vertical, practical, physical. Strength dominates. The first strategy consists in taking position to neu-
la CAN 2002 puis au Mondial 2002. Victoires sur la Namibie (4-0 et 5-0), lAlgrie (3-0), le Maroc (1-0) et lOuganda (3-0) et dfaites face lEgypte (0-1) et le Togo (0-1). Dix buts au compteur dEl Hadji Diouf et deux pour Henri Camara. Mission remplie. Au mois doctobre, Metsu doit ngocier la prolongation de son contrat. Ses employeurs tranent. Il menace de tout plaquer mais finit par obtenir de remplier jusquen 2003. Dans la foule, les membres de la slection, par la voix de Salif Diao exigent une hausse substantielle de leurs primes, faute de quoi ils ne disputeront pas la CAN au Mali. Lautorit de tutelle est contrainte dentamer, en France, des ngociations serres. Les revendications sont satisfaites et tout rentre dans lordre. A Bamako, les troupes de Bruno Metsu dtonnent et irritent par leur comportement peu respectueux des rgles tablies. Sur le terrain, ils ne fournissent toutefois quun service minimum. Pas de grandes envoles offensives, pas de panache mais des rsultats arrachs au forceps qui les conduisent en finale. Le duel quils livrent aux Lions indomptables du Cameroun est sans merci, mais cest le concours de coups de pied arrts qui dpartagent les deux rivaux. Les Camerounais conservent leur titre. Dakar accueille en hros ses Lions. A lhorizon se profilent le Mondial 2002 et surtout le match douverture France Sngal programm pour le 31 mai Soul. On va y aller, proclame Aliou Ciss, pour fle bordel. On veut passer le premier tour et cest jouable. La pression, ce sont les Bleus qui lauront ? Fanfaronnade ? Que nenni : les vnements donneront raison au capitaine des Lions. Metsu va bien prparer la confrontation avec les champions du monde. Il sait que les Tricolores msestiment, au plan technique, physique et moral les potentialits de ses joueurs quil na pas besoin de trop motiver, juste lui faut-il mettre en place un dispositif tactique de nature bloquer les troupes de Lemerre. Le Sngal se prsente en quipe homogne, compacte et solidaire. Ciss et ses coquipiers se dpensent sans compter, appliquent les consignes dfensives la lettre et tirent profit de la subtilit technique, de laudace et du culot de leurs attaquants de pointe Khalilou Fadiga et El Hadji Diouf. Ce dernier perfore maintes reprises larriregarde franaise et offre au monstre de lentrejeu Pape Bouba Diop, le ballon dun succs historique (1-0). Pour affronter le Danemark, Metsu fait confiance son flair et adapte sa tactique aux caractristiques de ladversaire. Toutefois, tout commence bien mal pour les Sngalais. Dentre, une faute de Diao sur Tomasson dans la surfaces permet aux Scandinaves de mener (0-1) sur un penalty que le Danois transforme. Les Lions mettent du temps se reprendre. La rentre du fantasque Henri Camara leur donne des ailes. Sur service de Fadiga, Diao se rachte en galisant de prs (1-1). Il ne finit pas la partie parce quil cope dun carton jaune puis dun rouge et sera suspendu pour deux matchs. Avec quatre points, le passage en huitimes de finale est dsormais porte des Africains. Le 11 juin, Suwon, conduits de pied de matre par Fadiga, les Lions font exploser la dfense de la Cleste : trois buts acquis avant la pause dont deux du colossal Pape Bouba Diop. En seconde priode, les Sud-Amricains se lancent lassaut des bois de Sylva qui sincline son tour trois reprises. Dans le temps additionnel, Diatta sauve sur sa ligne, de la tte, la balle de but qui aurait
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limin les siens. A 3-3, le Sngal engrange cinq points. Aprs le Maroc (1986), le Cameroun (1990), le Nigeria (1994 et 1998), il devient le quatrime pays africain accder aux huitimes de finale dun Mondial. Un bond en avant qui enfante la Sngauloisomania alors que les Tricolores limins, bouclent leurs valises et quittent la Core. Le football du Sngal, commente le technicien suisse Daniel Jeandupeux, est vertical, pratique, physique. La force domine. La stratgie premire consiste se mettre en position pour neutraliser ladversaire, en lui opposant un combat rapproch, pour lui imposer sa solidit, sa duret et sa rsistance, pour lreinter force de duels. Les attaquants qui ne sont pas des fainants se collent au bloc et harclent le porteur du ballon. Si des espaces se crent, les contres se dclenchent la vitesse de dragsters . Fuse verte, fuse jaune, fuse rougeUn vrai feu dartifice. Du vrai kick and rush , pur jus british. De vielles recettes pour un football jeune. Cette quipe ne joue pas trs bien. Mais elle gagne. Elle fait peur. Elle intimide. Et elle possde un sacr temprament de lutte, un mental dacier. Elle est prte pour la bagarre. Pas pour lacadmisme. Et le 16 juin, Oita, Japon, face la Sude et sans Fadiga et Diao, le hurrah-football des Sngalais savre payant, aprs 104 minutes dun match rebondissements. Cette fois-ci, ce sont deux exploits individuels de Camara qui font plier les rugueux Scandinaves (2-1). Douze ans aprs, les Lions de la Teranga rejoignent les Lions indomptables du Cameroun dans lhistoire des meilleures performances africaines en Coupe du monde ! Ces garons, commente admiratif Metsu, sont capables de relever tous les dfis. Cest dailleurs leur nature profonde: se dpasser, toujours se dpasser. Notre groupe, prvient Ciss, vit sur le fil, toujours la limite. Cest bouillant, trop bouillant, alors un moment, a peut exploser, poum ! Mais comment toujours se dpasser quand, aprs quatre rudes batailles, les muscles ne rpondent plus et quand dans les ttes sinstalle le doute ? Le match de quart de finale Turquie-Sngal fut peut-tre le combat de trop pour la vaillante bande Metsu. Evanouie la fracheur, estomp le punch, rduites la tonicit et la puissance, le Sngal redescend sur terre et redevient une quipe ordinaire face des matres techniciens capables de faire tourner merveille le cuir et de faire courir ladversaire. Et lon saperoit des limites du hurrah-football, du jeu vertical, du football physique et de la tactique de circonstance. Pas de fond de jeu qui tienne la route et pas de stratgie rationnelle qui permette lconomie des forces. Alors, souvre un boulevard pourlacadmisme la turque. Dommage pour ces cracks qui ont noms Fadiga, Diouf et Camara et pour tous leurs compagnons. Quils noublient pas la leon dOsaka ! Et quils ne tournent pas le dos la voie du progrs et au beau jeu : ils feront encore danser le Sngal et lAfrique. Et merci Metsu, chantre de la libert et fdrateur dune joyeuse clique de bons footballeurs qui rvent dsormais du podium olympique. Faouzi Mahjoub
tralise the opponent, by opposing him a close combat, to impose upon him solidity, hardness and resistance, to exhaust him by dint of duels. Attackers who are not idle stick on to the block and harass the bearer of the ball. If spaces are created, the counters trigger off at the speed of dragsters. Green rocket, yellow rocket, red rocket... a real fireworks. A real kick and rush, pure British style. This team does not play very well, but it is winning. It frightens. It intimidates. And it has a terrible temperament for fight, a steel mentality. Not for the faint hearted". On June 16 in Oita, Japan, against Sweden and without Fadiga and Diao, the Senegalese were rewarded, after an action-packed match of 104 minutes. This time, it was Camera's two individual exploits that had the rough Scandinavians beaten (2-1). Twelve years on, the Lions of Taranga join the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in the history of the best African achievement at a World Cup! "These boys," commented Metsu with admiration, "are capable of taking up all challenges. Besides, it is their profound nature: excelling themselves, always excelling themselves". "Our group," warned Cisse, "lives always on the edge. It is boiling, very hot, so at any moment, it can explode, boum!" But how can one always excel oneself, when after four hard battles, muscle do not obey any more and when doubt sets into the mind? The quarter final match Turkey-Senegal was perhaps one combat too many for Metsu's valiant group. Freshness gone, punch fading away, tone and power reduced. Senegal returned back to earth and became once more an ordinary team in front of master technicians, capable of turning the ball marvellously and making their opponent runs. And one perceives the limits of hurrah-football, of the vertical game, of the physical football and of the circumstantial tactics. No game depth that could hold on and no rational strategy that could allow the economy of strength. What a pity for these stars called Fadiga, Diouf and Camara and for all their companions. Let them not forget the lesson of Osaka! And let them not turn their backs on the path of progress and to the beautiful game: they will still let Senegal and Africa dance. And thank you to Metsu, minstrel of freedom and unifier of a joyful group of good football players, who dream from now on about the Olympic podium Faouzi Mahjoub
The African teams in Korea/Japan 2002
t the CAF Congress in Bamako earlier this year, president Issa Hayatou warned that any claims Africa had for increased representation at the World Cup finals would depend largely on the performances of the five representatives at the World Cup finals. With 52 members, CAF has long felt it is under represented at the world's greatest sporting show, but in order to fight the case within the FFA executive committee, results and achievement are needed from the African sides. Any increase from the five African countries at the final tournament would have to be motivated by a major upswing in the fortunes of African sides at the event. But, unfortunately, this year's event in Japan and South Korea has handed CAF's leadership little ammunition with which to fight for an increase for Africa. Besides the brilliance and charisma of Senegal, there was very little to cheer about for the people of our continent, who had high expectations going into the tournament. Senegal's progress to the quarter-finals might have been one of the fairytale stories of the 2002 finals but it does not hide the fact that, overall, Africa disappointed. Never before had their been as much expected from the continent, with countries like Cameroon and Nigeria expected to break new ground for African football. But, as in the previous finals in the USA and France, little came of the positive forecasts, with all but the Senegalese eliminated in the first round. Senegal were the only country to progress past the opening stages, meaning Africa still has yet to provide more than a single protagonist for the knockout stages since the World Cup started. It was a let down, particularly from the classy Cameroonians, who had shown much improvement on their unlucky outing in France four years ago. Two successive African Nations Cup titles, impressive showings in World Cup warm-ups against top class opposition and a team spirit that smacked of potential invincibility held out high hopes. Yet, it all came to naught, probably as early as the second game in Japan when Cameroon failed to get more than a single goal against the Saudi Arabians. The Indomitable Lions allowed Ireland back into a game they looked to have in control and never really threatened Germany in their final group match, which they needed to win. Nigeria, on the other hand, never got out of the starting blocks, admittedly drawn n the toughest opening round but let down by a lack of consistency. Both Cameroon and Nigeria were winners of the gold
The decline of the Olympic champions Coupe du monde Cor e/Japon 2002 La faillite des champions olympiques A A
loccasion de la 25 Assemble gnrale de la CAF, tenue le 17 janvier Bamako, le prsident Issa Hayatou avait averti que toute revendication relative laugmentation de la reprsentation africaine la phase finale de la Coupe du monde, dpendrait des performances de nos cinq finalistes au Mondial Core/Japon. Avec 52 associations nationales membres, la CAF pouvait estimer tre sous-reprsente la grande fte du football mondial. Mais pour amliorer son quota, elle devait se battre au sein du Comit excutif de la FIFA et tirer argument des rsultats et des exploits des quipes africaines. Toute augmentation du nombre des reprsentants au tournoi final en dpendait. Las, cette fois-ci, la Coupe du monde Core/Japon 2002 naura pas fourni de nouvelles munitions aux dcideurs du football africain. A lexception du parcours brillant et spectaculaire des Lions du Sngal, le public africain na pas eu de quoi senthousiasmer et il fut plutt fort du. Laccession du Sngal aux quarts de finale fut un vritable conte de fe. Elle ne pourra pas toutefois occulter le dsenchantement de lAfrique qui attendait et esprait beaucoup des quipes du Cameroun et du Nigeria. Mais comme lors de la World Cup USA 1994 et du Mondial 98, llimination ds le premier tour fut le lot de quatre reprsentants sur cinq. Le Sngal fut le seul franchir les obstacles et les tapes comme si le continent ne pouvait pas fournir plus dun protagoniste capable daller loin dans la comptition. Quelle dsillusion surtout du ct des Lions indomptables du Cameroun ! Depuis leur mauvaise campagne du Mondial 98, ceux-ci avaient fait montre de gros progrs alignant les triomphes : deux victoires conscutives en Coupe dAfrique des nations, mdaille dor olympique Sydney, et les matchs de prparation trs convaincants face des adversaires hupps. Ils rassuraient par la solidit de leur mental et leurs potentialits nourrissaient de gros espoirs. Autant de bonnes dispositions qui ont dbouch surrien. Cela fut trs visible lors du second match disput au Japon face lArabie saoudite : les Camerounais ne lemportrent que pniblement et par la plus maigre des marges (1-0). Ils avaient auparavant permis lIrlande de revenir au score, concdant ainsi le nul (1-1). Et enfin, ils ninquitrent nullement lAllemagne lors dun troisime match capital pour leur avenir. Les Super Eagles du Nigeria nont aucun moment paru vouloir dcoller de leurs starting blocks, comme sils avaient accept, sans doute par manque de consistance, la fatalit de sarrter au premier tour. Et quand on pense que Nigerians et Camerounais sont les derniers champions
S. Africa/Paraguay medal at the last two Olympic tournaments but that success at under-23 level has not been translated to the senior ranks. Senegal went much further than expected, continuing to ride the weave of confidence that has seen them emerge from virtual obscurity less than 18 months ago. A fine generation of players has sudden elevated the west African country to footballing vistas beyond their wildest dreams. They used to battle to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals, now they are the form side on the continent. Bruno Metsu's charisma and the play of Diouf, Camara, Diao, Daf and notably Fadiga proved a wonderful tonic for Africans fans let down by the other four countries. Senegal's progress was celebrated from Cape to Cairo. South Africa and Tunisia were always expected to struggle against difficult oppisiton and proved as much, although both have young enough teams to suggest they can only gain from the experience. Bafana Bafana might have actually made the second round with a little better coaching Now Africa looks ahead to the 2006 qualifiers and a new format, which will see the Nations Cup finals used to determine the five representatives for the next World Cup in Germany. South Africas Matches Mark Gleeson olympiques en titreCest dire que les succs des quipes de moins de 23 ans nont pas connu de suite chez les sniors. Les Lions du Sngal ralisrent plus quespr, surfant la perfection sur la vague de la confiance qui les porte depuis plus de dix-huit mois et brisant lanonymat sportif. Une gnration de joueurs talentueux a permis ce pays ouest-africain de vivre de magnifiques rves. Les Lions avaient bataill ferme pour accder la finale de la CAN 2002 et en Asie, ils ont accompli des performances qui les ont hiss au sommet du football africain. Le charisme de Bruno Metsu et les exploits des El Hadji Diouf, Henri Camara, Salif Diao et du matre jouer Khalilou Fadiga ont redonn du moral et de la joie aux sportifs africains qui ont, du Caire au Cap, vibr aux assauts des Lions. On attendait aussi des Sud-Africains et des Tunisiens quils relvent le double dfi de la qualit et de la performance face des adversaires rputs, mais ils pchrent les uns par des erreurs de jeunesse et les autres par excs de prudence. Les Bafana Bafana aurait p franchir le premier tour sils avaient t mieux dirigs. LAfrique dsormais se tourne vers lhorizon 2006 avec une nouvelle formule de qualification pour la Coupe du monde (les cinq reprsentants seront issus de la phase finale de la CAN). Mark Gleeson
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WORLD CUP 2002 Korea/Japan

Group A
No 1 3 18 20 33 34 No 6 8 22 24 39 40 No 10 12 26 28 41 42 No 14 16 30 32 47 48 No 2 4 17 19 35 36 No 5 7 21 23 37 38 No 9 11 Date 31 May 01 Jun 06 Jun 06 Jun 11 Jun 11 Jun Date 02 Jun 02 Jun 07 Jun 08 Jun 12 Jun 12 Jun Date 03 Jun 04 Jun 08 Jun 09 Jun 13 Jun 13 Jun Date 04 Jun 05 Jun 10 Jun 10 Jun 14 Jun 14 Jun Date 01 Jun 01 Jun 05 Jun 06 Jun 11 Jun 11 Jun Date 02 Jun 02 Jun 07 Jun 07 Jun 12 Jun 12 Jun Date 03 Jun 03 Jun Venue Seoul Ulsan Busan Daegu Incheon Suwon Venue Busan Gwangju Jeonju Daegu Daejeon Seogwipo Venue Ulsan Gwangju Seogwipo Incheon Suwon Seoul Venue Busan Suwon Daegu Jeonju Incheon Daejeon Venue Niigata Sapporo Ibaraki Saitama Shizuoka Yokohama Venue Saitama Ibaraki Kobe Sapporo Miyagi Osaka Venue Niigata Sapporo Teams FRA : SEN URU : DEN FRA : URU DEN : SEN DEN : FRA SEN : URU Teams PAR : RSA ESP : SVN ESP : PAR RSA : SVN RSA : ESP SVN : PAR Teams BRA : TUR CHN : CRC BRA : CHN CRC : TUR CRC : BRA TUR : CHN Teams KOR : POL USA : POR KOR : USA POR : POL POR : KOR POL : USA Teams IRL : CMR GER : KSA GER : IRL CMR : KSA CMR : GER KSA : IRL Teams ENG : SWE ARG : NGA SWE : NGA ARG : ENG SWE : ARG NGA : ENG Teams CRO : MEX ITA : ECU Score 0:1 (0:1) 1:2 (0:1) 0:0 1:1 (1:0) 2:0 (1:0) 3:3 (3:0) Score 2:2 (1:0) 3:1 (1:0) 3:1 (0:1) 1:0 (1:0) 2:3 (1:2) 1:3 (1:0) Score 2:1 (0:1) 0:2 (0:0) 4:0 (3:0) 1:1 (0:0) 2:5 (1:3) 3:0 (2:0) Score 2:0 (1:0) 3:2 (3:1) 1:1 (0:1) 4:0 (1:0) 0:1 (0:0) 3:1 (2:0) Score 1:1 (0:1) 8:0 (4:0) 1:1 (1:0) 1:0 (0:0) 0:2 (0:0) 0:3 (0:1) Score 1:1 (1:0) 1:0 (0:0) 2:1 (1:1) 0:1 (0:1) 1:1 (0:0) 0:0 Score 0:1 (0:0) 2:0 (2:0) 25 27 43 44 No 13 15 29 31 45 46 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 08 Jun 09 Jun 13 Jun 13 Jun Date 04 Jun 05 Jun 09 Jun 10 Jun 14 Jun 14 Jun 15 Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 16 Jun 17 Jun 17 Jun 18 Jun 18 Jun 21 Jun 21 Jun 22 Jun 22 Jun 25 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 30 Jun Ibaraki Miyagi Oita Yokohama Venue Saitama Kobe Yokohama Oita Osaka Shizuoka Seogwipo Niigata Oita Suwon Jeonju Kobe Miyagi Daejeon Shizuoka Ulsan Gwangju Osaka Seoul Saitama Daegu Yokohama ITA : CRO MEX : ECU MEX : ITA ECU : CRO Teams JPN : BEL RUS : TUN JPN : RUS TUN : BEL TUN : JPN BEL : RUS 1:2 (0:0) 2:1 (1:1) 1:1 (1:0) 1:0 (0:0) Score 2:2 (0:0) 2:0 (0:0) 1:0 (0:0) 1:1 (1:1) 0:2 (0:0) 3:2 (1:0)
Group H
Group B
ROUND OF 16
GER : PAR 1:0 (0:0) DEN : ENG 0:3 (0:3) SWE : SEN 1:2 a.e.t. (1:1, 1:1) ESP : IRL 1:1 a.e.t. (1:1, 1:0) 3:2 PSO MEX : USA 0:2 (0:1) BRA : BEL 2:0 (0:0) JPN : TUR 0:1 (0:1) KOR : ITA 2:1 a.e.t. (1:1 0:1) ENG : BRA 1:2 (1:1) GER : USA 1:0 (1:0) ESP : KOR 0:0 a.e.t. 3:5 PSO SEN : TUR 0:1 a.e.t. (0:0) GER : KOR BRA : TUR KOR : TUR GER : BRA 1:0 (0:0) 1:0 (0:0) 2:3 (1:3) 0:2 (0:0)
Group C
QUARTERFINALS
Group D
SEMI-FINALS
THIRD PLACE FINAL
Group E
Group F
Group G
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K. Fadiga
Senegals Matches Group 1 Matches France - Senegal 0:1 (0:1) 31 May 2002, 20:30, Seoul, Korea Republic Goal: 19 Diop Papa Bouba (30') Referee: Bujsaim Ali Denmark - Senegal 1:1 (1:0) 6 June 2002, 15:30, Daeugu, Korea Republic Goals: Denmark: 9 Tomasson Jon Dahl (16') Senegal: 5 Diao Salif (52') Referee: Batres Carlos Senegal - Uruguay 3-3 (3-0) 11 June 2002, 15:30, Suwon, Korea Republic Goals: Senegal: 10 Fadiga Khalilou (20'), 19 Diop Papa Bouba (26'), 19 Diop Papa Bouba (38') Uruguay: 18 Morales Richard (46'), 21 Forlan Diego (69'), 20 Recoba Alvaro (88') Referee: Wegereef Jan Round Of 16 Sweden - Senegal 1:2 A.E.T. (1:1, 1:1) 16 June 2002, 15:30, Oita, Japan Goals: Sweden: 11 Larsson Henrik (11') Senegal: 7 Camara Henri (37'& 104)) Referee: Aquino Ubaldo Quarter Finals Senegal : Turkey 0:1 A.E.T. (0:0) 22 June 2002, 20:30, Osaka, Japan Goals: 17 Mansiz Ilhan (94') Referee: Ruiz Oscar
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Cameroons Matches Group E Rep. Of Ireland - Cameroon 1:1 (0:1) 1 June 2002, 15:30, Niigata, Japan Goals: Ireland: 8 Holland Matt (52') Cameroon: 10 Mboma Patrick (39') Referee: Kamikawa Toru Cameroon - Saudi Arabia 1:0 (0:0)
6 June 2002, 18:00, Saiatama, Japan Goal: 9 Etoo Samuel (66') Referee: Hauge Terje Cameroon - Germany 0:2 (0:0) Date: 11 June 2002, 20:30 Shizuoka, Japan Goals: 17 Bode Marco (50'), 11 Klose Miroslav (79') Referee: Lopez Nieto Antonio
Nigerias Matches
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Group F Argentina - Nigeria1:0 (0:0) 2 June 2002, 14:30, Ibaraki, Japan Goals: 9 Batistuta Gabriel (63') Referee: Veissiere Gilles Sweden - Nigeria 2:1 (1:1) 7 June 2002, 15:30, Kobe, Japan Goals: Sweden: 11 Larsson Henrik (35'), 11 Larsson Henrik (63') Nigeria: 17 Aghahowa Julius (27') Referee: Ortube Ren Nigeria - England 0:0 12 June 2002, 15:30 Osaka, Japan Referee: Hall Brian
Taribo West
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South Africas Matches Group B Paraguay - South Africa 2:2 (1:0) 2 June 2002, 16:30, Busan, Korea Republic Goals: Paraguay: 9 Santa Cruz Roque (39'), 2 Arce Francisco (55') S. Afric: 12 Mokoena Teboho (63')7 Fortune Quinton (91') Referee: Michel Lubos South Africa - Slovenia 1:0 (1:0) Date: 8 June 2002, 15:30, Daegu, Korea Republic Goals: S. Africa: 14 Nomvethe Siyabonga (4') Referee: Sanchez Angel South Africa - Spain 2:3 (1:2) Date: 2 June 2002, 20:30, Daejeon, Korea Republic Goals: S. Africa: 17 Mc Carthy Benedict (31'), 19 Radebe Lucas (53') Spain: 7 Raul (4'), 16 Mendieta Gaizka (46'+), 7 Raul (56') Referee: Mane Saad
S. Africa / Spain
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Tunisias Matches Group H Russia - Tunisia 2:0 (0:0) June 2002, 15:30 Kobe, Japan Goals: 9 Titov Egor (59'), 8 Karpin Valery (64') Referee: Prendergast Peter Tunisia - Belgium 1:1 (1:1) 10 June 2002, 18:00, Oita, Japan
Goals: Tunisia: 12 Bouzaiene Raouf (17') Belgium: Wilmots Marc (13') Referee: Shield Mark Tunisia - Japan 0:2 (0:0) 14 June 2002, 15:30, Osaka, Japan Goals: 8 Morishima Hiroaki (48'), 7 Nakata Hidetoshi (75') Referee: Veissiere Gilles
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The New
Le Nouveau
HeadQuarters of CAF Siege de la CAF
ounded in Khartoum on the 8th February 1956, CAF had its first headquarters in Cairo at 3 Hadiqua Street, Garden City. In February 1961, with the appointment of Mourad Fahmy as third General Secretary of CAF, the headquarters of CAF moved to a room in the new head office of the Egyptian Football Federation at 5 Gabalaya Street on Guezira Island. On October 1st 1973, for the first time in its existence, CAF obtained its very own headquarters, a one-floor wing next to the Egyptian Football Federation. The new headquarters of CAF had an area of 250 m2, big enough to satisfy the requirements of administration needs at that time. In 1988, with the accession of Mr Issa Hayatou as fifth President of CAF, it was decided to extend the premises by building a second floor to allow CAF facing its increasing activities. Three years later, a third floor increased the area of the premises to 800 m2. As the present headquarters situated at 5 Gabalaya Street could no more be extended, the Executive Committee of CAF in its session held in Cairo on 29th July 2000 approved the proposition of the President of CAF to buy a land in the new city of 6 October (situated 30 kms away from the present headquarters) and to build a new modern and functional headquarters to help CAF confront future challenges. On 6th May 2001, the breaking stone was placed in the presence of the Egyptian Youth Minister and the President of FIFA.
a CAF fonde le 8 fvrier 1957 Khartoum a eu son premier sige au Caire au 3 Rue El Hadiqua, Garden City.
En fvrier 1961, avec lavnement de Mourad Fahmy comme troisime Secrtaire Gnral de la CAF, le sige de la CAF change dadresse et occupe une chambre dans le nouveau sige de la fdration Egyptienne de Football au 5 Rue Gabalaya dans lle de Guezira. Le 1er Octobre 1973, pour la premire fois de son existence la CAF a son propre sige, un pavillon sans tages dans la cour adjacente la Fdration Egyptienne de Football. C Le nouveau sige de la CAF possde une superficie de 250 m2 et satisfait aux besoins administratifs de lpoque. En 1988, avec lavnement de Monsieur Issa Hayatou comme cinquime Prsident de la CAF, il a t dcid dagrandir les locaux en construisant un second tage pour permettre la CAF de faire face ses activits de plus en plus grandes. Trois ans plus tard, un troisime tage fait passer la superficie des locaux 800 m2. Le sige actuel situ au 5 Rue Gabalaya ne pouvant plus tre agrandi, le Comit Excutif de la CAF en sa sance tenue au Caire le 29 Juillet 2000 approuve la proposition du Prsident de la CAF dacheter un terrain dans la nouvelle cit du 6 octobre (situe 30 kms du sige actuel) pour construire un nouveau sige moderne et fonctionnel afin de permettre la CAF de faire face aux dfis futurs. Le 6 Mai 2001, la premire pierre est pose en prsence du Ministre de la jeunesse Egyptien et du Prsident de la FIFA. Moins de 18 mois plus tard, louverture du nouveau sige
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Less than 18 months later, the opening of the new head- est programm devant un parterre du monde du sport et de la quarters is scheduled to take place with the presence of impor- politique. tant personalities from the sports and political world.
Last inspection of works by Messr. Issa Hayatou, CAF President, Slim Aloulou, Execo member and Mr. Fahmy, the CAF General Secretary / Dernire inspection des traveaux par le Prsident de la CAF, M. Issa Hayatou, M. Slim Aloulou, membre Execo et M. Mustapha Fahmy, Secrtaire Gnral de la CAF The new headquarters of CAF are situated in the city of 6 October in front of Misr University for science and technology and occupies an area of 5000 m2. The administrative headquarters of CAF are built on an area of 1100 m2. The building comprises a basement, a ground floor and two more floors. The basement (1500 m2) has a large conference room capable to receive up till 200 persons on the occasion of seminars or symposiums organised by the Confederation. The ground floor (1500 m2)comprises the different entries, the reception, the security posts and the waiting rooms for visitors. The rear part is composed of 16 offices for 28 posts. The first floor (1100 m2) houses the offices of the President, the General Secretary, the central Secretariat and a large working room for CAF members when meeting in Cairo. The rear part of this floor also contains 16 offices for 28 posts The second floor (1500 m2) comprises two meeting rooms with a capacity of thirty people for each. These are equipped with systems for simultaneous translation. The headquarters have also a place for the power generator allowing the administrative part to function in case of power cuts and a water tank of 80 m3 ensuring the watering of green spaces and can be used in case of fire. A parking area for about forty cars is also available as well as a waiting place for the drivers. The green spaces occupy nearly 55% of the total area of the headquarters. The global cost of the project including the cost of the ground, the main works, the furniture and the equipment linked to technology information should come close to 4 million dollars Le nouveau sige situ dans la cit du 6 octobre fait face luniversit Misr pour les sciences et les technologies et occupe une superficie de 5000 m2. Le sige administratif de la CAF est bti sur une superficie de 1100 m2. Le btiment administratif comprend un sous-sol, un rez de chausse et deux tages. Le sous-sol comprend (900 m2)une grande salle de confrence pouvant accueillir jusqu 200 personnes loccasion des sminaires ou des symposiums organiss par la Confdration. Le rez-de chausse (1500 m2) comprend les diffrentes entres, la rception, les postes de scurit et des espaces dattente rservs aux visiteurs. La partie arrire est com pose de 16 bureaux pouvant offrir 28 postes de travail. Le premier tage (1100 m2) abrite les bureaux du prsident, du Secrtaire Gnral, du Secrtariat central et dune grande salle de travail pour les membres de la CAF en runion au Caire. La partie arrire de cet tage contient galement 16 bureaux offrant 28 postes de travail. Le deuxime tage (1500 m2) comprend deux salles de runion dune capacit de trente personnes chacune et dotes des installations pour la traduction simultane. Le sige offre galement un espace rserv pour le gnrateur qui permet la partie administrative de fonctionner en cas de coupure du courant lectrique et un rservoir deau dune capacit de 80 m3 assurant larrosage des espaces verts et pouvant tre utilis en cas dincendie. Un espace pour lattente dune quarantaine de voitures est galement disponible ainsi quun espace dattente pour les chauffeurs. Les espaces verts occupent environ 55% de la superficie totale du sige. Le cot global du projet incluant le prix du terrain, les gros uvres, lameublement et les installations relis linformation technologique devrait avoisiner 4 millions de dollars.
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An opportunity not to be missed Une opportunit ne pas manquer

By Fkrou Kidan
eople often talk about African football, in a good or bad sense, according to the circumstances. But people rarely talk about its development and its educational and social aspects. Without generalising, all the efforts consented until now remain concentrated on the organisation and the participation in different competitions. The development projects if they ever existed- remain also limited to the formation of cadres, coaches and referees. The relations between the ministries in charge and the national associations are not always excellent. Personal conflicts of interests are countless... Dialogue and co-ordination have nothing to do with the rule of the game. The lack of means is increasing because of the economic situation from which most of the countries suffer. Poverty keeps sticking to us. Endemic diseases are devastating our society. Our youth is distraught. The armed conflicts, of which women and children are the greatest victims, have been tragic and disastrous. Natural catastrophes have not spared us either. However, one must recognise that it is in this difficult and despicable context that the majority of volunteer officials have to evolve to promote the development of football in the Continent. Once upon a time, the essential objective was oriented towards the education of the youth through practising sport for their moral and physical welfare. The inter-schools football tournaments were numerous and popular. Most of the players that the clubs recruited and lined up in championships, were students. Today it is not the case any more. The objective is elsewhere. The only major concern seems to be the national team. Governments, that often have no money for the youth or womens teams, and for other sports, always find, as by miracle, the necessary means for the national team. Especially, for the recruitment of a foreign coach at the last minute. The lack of vision and the lack of a sustainable development project prevents us from believing in ourselves and trusting our own coaches who are the first recruiters and trainers of all the national players, but to whom we refuse systematically the means they are asking for. Before entrusting them to foreign witch doctors just for a honeymoon. As to the national championships in some countries, they only serve to select substitutes. The title-holders play elsewhere, away from their country and make appearances only as guests of honour and at the only condition to be paid in advance for their performance, all expenses included. Representing ones country is no more an honour that thousands of football players used to aspire to in the past. That is to say, that the way of life of African football has changed and the officials mentality too. Now, football in Africa is the object of every kind of exploitation by people without any scruple, especially political.
n parle souvent du football en Afrique en bien et en mal, suivant les circonstances. Mais on parle peu de son dveloppement et de ses aspects ducatif et social. Sans pour autant gnraliser, tous les efforts consentis jusqu prsent, restent concentrs sur lorganisation et la participation aux diffrentes comptitions. Les projets de dveloppement encore faut-il quils existent restent aussi limits la formation des cadres, des entraneurs et des arbitres. Les relations entre les ministres de tutelle et les fdrations nationales ne sont pas toujours au beau fixe. Les conflits personnels et dintrt sont innombrables.. La concertation et la coordination ne font pas partie de la rgle du jeu. Le manque de moyens se multiplie cause de la conjoncture conomique dont souffrent la plupart des pays. La pauvret ne nous lche plus. Les maladies endmiques ravagent notre socit. Notre jeunesse est dsempare. Les conflits arms dont les femmes et les enfants sont les plus grandes victimes, ont t tragiques et dsastreux. Les catastrophes naturelles ne nous ont pas pargns non plus. Il faut reconnatre nanmoins que cest dans ce contexte pnible et peu reluisant, que la majorit des dirigeants volontaires doivent voluer pour promouvoir le dveloppement du football dans le continent. Il tait une fois, lobjectif primordial tait orient vers lducation de la jeunesse travers la pratique du sport pour son bien-tre moral et physique. Les tournois de football inter-scolaires taient nombreux et populaires. La plupart des joueurs que les clubs recrutaient et alignaient dans les championnats, taient des tudiants. Aujourdhui, ce nest plus le cas. Lobjectif est ailleurs. La seule proccupation majeure semble tre lquipe nationale. Les gouvernements, qui nont souvent pas dargent pour les quipes juniors ou fminines, et pour les autres sports, trouvent toujours comme par miracle les moyens ncessaires pour lquipe nationale. Surtout pour le recrutement dun entraneur tranger la dernire minute. Le manque de vision et de projet de dveloppement durable nous empche de croire en nous-mmes et de faire confiance nos propres entraneurs qui sont les premiers recruteurs et formateurs de tous les joueurs nationaux mais auxquels nous refusons systmatiquement les moyens quils rclament, avant de les confier aux marabouts trangers le temps dune lune de miel. Quant aux championnats nationaux de certains pays, ils ne servent plus qu slectionner les remplaants. Les titulaires jouent ailleurs, loin de leur pays et ne font des apparitions comme invits dhonneur la seule condition quon leur paie davance les honoraires de leur prestation, tous frais compris. Reprsenter son pays nest plus un honneur auquel aspiraient jadis des milliers de footballeurs. Cest dire que le mode de vie du football africain a chang et les mentalits des dirigeants aussi. Le football en Afrique fait prsent lobjet de toutes
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sortes dexploitation par des personnes sans aucun scrupule, notamment politique. LAfrique sportive consacre rarement le temps ncessaire la rflexion sereine sur les problmes de dveloppement. Les assembles gnrales servent souvent traiter des points classiques qui figurent lordre du jour, aux lections et au shopping. Cest pour palier ces lacunes que le prsident de la CAF, Issa Hayatou a pris linitiative dorganiser un Forum sur le football en Afrique pour permettre aux dirigeants de rflchir ensemble sur divers sujets et tracer une ligne de conduite pour lavenir. La CAF, pionnire de lunit africaine, a invit toutes les fdrations se concerter avec toutes les parties concernes sur le plan national et soumettre leurs remarques la connaissance des autres partenaires. Que les fdrations nationales le fassent ou non, cause de mauvaises habitudes, loccasion leur a t en tout cas offerte. Leurs dlgus sexprimeront certainement au Forum, afin de ne pas rater lopportunit denrichir les dbats. Il est temps de dialoguer ouvertement entre Africains et trouver des solutions aux problmes concernant lAfrique. Se dire les quatre vrits dune manire responsable et courtoise, na jamais fait de mal personne. Il est cependant primordial ce que nous nous engagions condamner toutes formes de corruption, de malversation et de tricherie. Il faut absolument que les conflits dintrt et de personne disparaissent pour mieux dvelopper le football africain. Il faut apprendre connatre et se mfier des manipulateurs et des exploiteurs dguiss en bienfaiteurs. La pauvret, la navet et lignorance ne doivent plus servir nous faire perdre nos valeurs ancestrales et notre dignit, ni nous dcourager relever les dfis avec notre bonne volont. Je continue par ma part, prtendre que la pauvret est, dans une certaine mesure, une cole de limagination. Et cette cole existe toujours dans nos pays respectifs. A moins que je ne me trompe, jouer au football pieds nus nest pas encore une honte. Jose esprer que le Forum du Caire servira un dbat fructueux qui dgagera des ides nouvelles la lumire des expriences vcues dans les diffrents pays, et mettra en exergue limportance de dfendre la dignit africaine, dadhrer un code dthique et la culture de la bonne gouvernance et la transparence administrative et financire, et intensifier la lutte contre la violence et les flaux qui enveniment la socit africaine. Debout lAfrique, on ne peut plus se cacher derrire larbre qui cache la fort!
Sporting Africa rarely devotes the necessary time for calm reflection on the problems of development. The General Assemblies are often used for dealing with classical points appearing on the agenda, for elections and for shopping. It is to overcome these deficiencies that the President of CAF, Issa Hayatou has taken the initiative of organising a Forum on football in Africa to allow the officials to reflect together on different subjects and to draw a line of conduct for the future. CAF, pioneer of the African unity, has invited all the federations to confer with all the concerned parties at national level and to submit their remarks to the knowledge of the other partners. Whether the national federations would do it or not because of bad habits, in any case the occasion has been offered to them. Their delegates will surely express themselves during the forum so as not to lose the opportunity of enriching the debates. It is about time to enter into dialogue openly among Africans and find solutions to the problems concerning Africa. Telling each other a few home truths in a responsible and courteous manner has never harmed anyone. However, it is essential that we committed ourselves in condemning every kind of corruption, embezzlement and cheating. Conflicts of interests and of personnalities must absolutely dissolve to have African football developed in a better way. One should learn how to recognise and distrust manipulators and exploiters disguised as benefactors. Poverty, navety and ignorance should not be used any more to have our ancestral values and dignity lost, neither to discourage us of taking up challenges with our own will power. As for me, I still claim that poverty is, in a certain way, a school for imagination. And this school still exists in our respective countries. Unless I am wrong, playing football bare feet is not a shame yet. I dare hope that the Forum of Cairo will offer a fruitful debate from which new ideas will emerge in the light of experiences lived in different countries and will underline the importance of defending African dignity, of adhering to a code of ethics and of adopting a culture of good governance and administrative and financial transparency, of intensifying the struggle against violence and the scourges that poison African society. Get up Africa! We can no longer hide behind the tree that hides the forest!
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Whats the use of football coaches?

Des entra neurs de football pour quoi faire ?
By Faouzi Mahjoub
irst the 2002 African Nations Cup finals in Mali and then the World Cup in Japan and South Korea-Japan have confirmed the evolution of African football's elite. Following the fashion, there is a tendency today to follow a path of conformism, of uniformity and blindly imitating those who give increasing importance to the physical aspect of the modern game. Commenting the matches at the Nations Cup in Mali, one former African international asserted: "In Africa, scoutss do not look for 1.70m talents anymore but rather 1.90m monsters. They act according to their needs and chose according to the size. Yet, a monster has never been an artist. Then the African national teams use these hefty players together in their matches because they play in Europe. It means that creators and team leaders will inevitably go missing. Africa will always produce the likes of Marcel Desailly or Samuel Osei Kuffour, but will there still be the likes of Roger Milla and Abedi Pel?" He was pointing the finger at the coaches' responsibilities.
a CAN 2002 puis la Coupe du monde Core-Japon ont confirm lvolution du football africain de llite. Pour reprendre une ide reue en vogue, il est aujourdhui tendance , cest-dire quil a emprunt, dans le domaine essentiel du jeu, la voie du conformisme, de luniformit et du panurgisme qui donne une importance croissante au facteur physique. Commentant les matchs de Mali, un ancien international africain affirma : En Afrique, les recruteurs ne cherchent pas les virtuoses dun mtre soixante-dix, mais des monstres physiques dun mtre quatre-vingt-dix. Il s agissent selon leurs besoins et slectionnent en fonction des gabarits. Or, un monstre na jamais t un artiste. Ensuite les quipes nationales africaines rcuprent ces baraqus quil faut faire jouer ensemble. Fatalement, il va manquer des crateurs, des meneurs de jeuLAfrique produira toujours des Marcel Desailly ou des Samuel Kuffour, mais y aura-t-il encore des Milla et Abedi Pel ? Et de pointer le doigt sur la responsabilit des entraneurs. A raison. Personne na jamais mis en doute cette vidence : le sport est une activit physique. Tout le monde le sait aussi, la pratique du football exige rapidit, vivacit, rsistance, dtente, souplesse, robustesse, puissance. Mais si lidal consistait runir onze joueurs possdant au plus haut degr toutes ces qualits, les quipes seraient formes par des hommes dge et de gabarit identiques, ces deux facteurs dterminants pour une part essentielle les caractristiques physiques prcites. Or, il nen est rien. On peut constater que toutes les quipes, y compris les meilleures, sont constitues par des joueurs dge et de gabarits divers et donc de caractristiques diverses. Ce qui est tout fait normal dans des collectivits dont le rendement repose sur la division des tches et donc sur la complmentarit des aptitudes individuelles. La valeur physique du footballeur ne peut donc se dfinir par une donne standard. Un petit gabarit au dmarrage irrsistible manquera vraisemblablement de la puissance ncessaire pour simposer dans des contacts o la masse joue un rle essentiel. Un gabarit imposant sera dsavantag son tour sous le rapport de la vivacit et de la souplesse. Mais cest la synthse de ces caractristiques diverses et complmentaires dans le creuset de lquipe qui dfinira la valeur physique de cette quipe. Ces notions fondamentales, il est indispensable de les avoir lesprit une poque o les intellectuels du football que sont les entraneurs officiels affirment que, dans lordre des valeurs que les footballeurs doivent cultiver, la priorit doit tre donne au physique sur la technique et la technique sur la tactique. Cette conception a t mise en pratique, bien avant que les prparateurs physiques aient envahi lencadrement des clubs ou des slections nationales et soient devenus des personnages incontournables du football daujourdhui, nhsitant pas claironner que les victoires de leurs quipes sont dabord leur uvre. Que les entraneurs spcialiss dans les sports dquipe proclament la priorit du physique, voil qui semble paradoxal. Car dans de ce cas, pourquoi les clubs de tous les niveaux ou les quipes nationales se sentent-ils obligs dengager et de rtribuer (souvent grassement) des entrneurs de football, dment diplms. Si la priorit des priorits est le physique, un professeur dducation physique nest-il infiniment plus qualifi a priori quun entraneur issu des stages nationaux ou internationaux ? En fait les entraneurs officiels (africains ou non) de football sont prisonniers de la contradiction qui oppose la philosophie des
Nobody has ever doubted this fact: sport is a physical activity. Everyone also knows that playing football needs speed, vigour, resistance, spring, flexibility, robustness and strength. Nevertheless, if it were ideally possible to bring together 11 players possessing the highest degree of all of these qualities, then teams would be composed of men with identical ages and sizes. However, the reality is nothing of the sort. The fact is that all teams, even the best ones, are composed of players with different ages and sizes and therefore of diverse characteristics, which is perfectly normal for a sport where the effectiveness of the team is grounded on the distribution of tasks and therefore on the complementary nature of individual aptitudes. Therefore, a football player's physical value cannot be defined by a certain standard. A small sized player, with say a great shot, will probably lack the necessary strength to dominate heavy physical contests. A player with an imposing size will also be disadvantaged when it comes to speed and flexibility. But it is the synthesis of these diverse and complementary characteristics, in the melting pot of the team, that defines the real value of a team. It is essential to bear in mind these fundamental notions, at a time when the football "intellectuals" - who are the official coaches - assert that priority must be given to the physical development of the player, then to his or her technical development and then only to the tactical development. This concept has been in place for some while now, even before the proponents of the physical aspect of the game invaded the management of clubs and national teams. They have become key figures in football, who cannot be ignored today, and who do not hesitate to boast that their team's victories are above all their very own achievement. It is a paradox that coaches who specialise in team sports give priority to the physical aspect of the game. Why do clubs or national teams feel compelled to hire and pay (oftentimes handsomely) properly qualified football coaches when the priority of the modern game is its physical aspect? Is not a physical training teacher far more qualified in principle than a coach with a whole string of coaching qualifications to his name? In fact, coaches (African or not) today are prisoners of the contradiction that opposes the managers' philosophy and that of football. Managers do not accept that players are working at their game unless it has the external appearance of manual labour, with its disheartening, exhausting even dangerous aspects. It seems to coaches that it is unfair to pay salaries and bonuses to
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dirigeants et celle du football. Les dirigeants nacceptent de rtribuer le travail des joueurs qu condition quil ait lapparence extrieure du travail, quil ait ses aspects rebutants, harassants, voire dangereux. Il leur parat injuste de payer salaires et primes des gens qui jouent, qui samusent. Or prcisment, le vrai football est un art o leffort physique indispensable sexprime efficacement dans la joie du jeu. Ancien joueur dans la plupart des cas, lentraneur sait par exprience et simple bon sens quon devient footballeur en pratiquant le football. Comment on devient pianiste en jouant au piano. Quon ne devient pas ni footballeur, ni pianiste en soulevant des haltres ou en faisant des tours de piste ou de la musculation. Mais leur intrt hgoste leur commande dadopter la philosophie de leurs employeurs dirigeants, de devenir des les contre-matres zls qui veillent ce que le football soit le travail ingrat, dur, antipathique, que les joueurs-ouvriers doivent accomplir dans lordre et la discipline. La priorit donne au physique a un second avantage. Elle permet au contre-matre (surtout sil vient dEurope) de se parer des plumes du techniocrate srieyux, familier des chiffres, des statistiques, des donnes prcises. Et les chiffres a fait srieux, surtout lorsque les rsultats obtenus par lquipe, si bien entrane physiquement, sont dsastreux. Cest le meilleur alibi pour lentraneur en danger de perdre son emploi. Enfin et surtout la priorit accorde au physique a lavantage dcisif dpargner lentraneur ( intellectuel du football devant lternel ) tout effort de rflexion sur ce quil a appris empiriquement durant sa carrire de joueur, mais quil est incapable dinculquer aux autres. Sur le football, sur lintelligence du jeu collectif qui est lessentiel du football mais laquelle il sempresse dattribuer la dernire place sous la dnomination de tactique . En ce domaine en effet, si lon croit ces matres ne pas penser (europens ou africains), tout ayant t dit, il n y a rien dire. Tous croient avoir trouv largument-massue pour assomer leurs contradicteurs et se prsenter comme des entraneurs dans le vent lorsquils dclarent pour justifier leurs choix ralistes : - Nous faisons ce que font les autres ! Ce qui est le summum de la candeur lorsquon est rtribu prcisment pour ne pas faire ce que font les autres mais pour faire quelque chose de nouveau, pour tre un facteur de progrs en football. Les faits puiss dans toutes les comptitions internationales prouvent aux nafs lefficacit trs relative des spcialistes de la prparation physique. Avez-vous ressenti au cours des matchs de la Coupe du monde que les Sngalais El Hadji Diouf, Khalilou Fadiga ou Henri Camara, le Tunisien Slim Ben Achour, le Nigrian Austin Okocha, le Sud Africain Sibusiso Zuma ou les Camerounais Samuel Etoo et Etam Lauren Mayer manquaient de vitesse ou de rsistance ? Et que dire des gloires du pass qui ont ont noms Rachid Mekhloufi, Salif Keita, Ahmed Faras, Chrif Souleymane, Roger Milla, Tarak Dhiab, Lakhdar Belloumi, Mahmoud el Khatib, Abedi Pel ou Abdul Razak? Il y a en effet un abme entre les qualits physiques dtectes au moyen des tests raliss dans les conditions propres lathltisme et les qualits physiques qui sexpriment dans les conditions relles propres au football. Parce que, si le footballeur doit savoir courir vite et longtemps, sauter, lancer, frapper, ces gestes authentiquement athltiques nont de sens et defficacit que sils servent la ralisation de ce que lintelligence conoit. Lintelligence collective de lquipe que nos intellectuels du ballon placent au dernier rang. Alors rptons notre question : des entraneurs pour quoi faire ?
people who play and just have a good time. They are only satisfied with players who have a high work rate. It just happens that football is an art where the indispensable physical effort expresses itself efficiently in the pleasure of the game. In most cases, a coach (who is normally a former player himself) knows by experience and simple common sense that one becomes a football player by practising football. The same as one becomes a piano player by playing the piano. One cannot become a football player or a piano player by lifting weights, body building or continuously running around the track. But their egotistic interests mean that coaches adopt their employers' philosophy, turning themselves into zealous foremen who make sure that football is an unrewarding, though unpleasant task. The footballer is taught that labour is the path to follow to achieve discipline and order. Priority given to the physical aspect of the game has a second advantage. It allows the foreman (especially when he comes from Europe) to take the credit for aspects of the game which, at the end of the day, are not relevant to the finals result. Data like fitness levels and stamina percentages. This can all look very impressive, especially if the results of the team are not that favourable. It is an alibi oftentimes for a coach who risks losing his job. Finally and most importantly, priority given to the physical aspect of football has the decisive advantage of not requiring the coach to draw from the lessons he learnt as a player or how to be able to impart this knowledge to others. Tactical thinking should be the primary characteristic of a good coach but it is now being relegated and a coach's talents are therefore not as acute as they really should be. Nowadays, coaches (both African and European) don't really need to think about the game but rather have to concentrate on getting their players in shape. They are protected by this new approach to the game. The modern day coach does not have to be an innovator anymore, he just has to follow the trends. This is the pinnacle of naivety, given that a coach is paid precisely for not doing what the others do, but for doing something new in order to be a pioneer in the progress of the great game of football. Facts drawn from all international competitions prove to gullible fools the very relative efficiency of the physical preparation specialists. Did you feel during the World Cup matches that the Senegalese El Hadji Diouf, Khalolou Fadiga or Henri Camara, the Tunisian Selim Ben Achour, the Nigerian Austin Okocha, the South African Sibusiso Zuma or the Cameroonian Samuel Eto'o and Lauren Etam Mayer lacked speed or resistance? And how about the former stars such as Rachid Mekhloufi, Salif Keita, Ahmed Faras, Cherif Souleymane, Roger Milla, Tarak Dhiab, Lakhdar Belloumi, Mahmoud al Khatib, Abedi Pel or Abdul Razak? Effectively, there is a chasm between the physical qualities detected through tests and those express on the pitch. Because, if a football player knows how to run fast or how to jump, shoot and kick, then these athletes only need add a tactical efficiency to their game. But the collective intelligence of a team is something that the coaching "intellectuals" place last these days. Therefore, it is worth repeating the question: 'What is the use of coaches these days?'
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CAF STANDING COMMITTEES 2002 - 2004 COMMISSIONS DE LA CAF 2002 - 2004

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COMITE EXECUTIF
President 1st Vice-President 2nd Vice-President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Gnral Seyi Memene (Togo) Ismail Bhamjee (Botswana) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Mbongo Sylvestre (Congo) Amadou Diakit (Mali) Mawade Wade (Senegal) Said Belkhayat (Morocco) Joab Omino (Kenya) Adoum Djibrine (Tchad) Dr. Amos Adamu (Nigeria) Molefi Oliphant (South Africa) Mustapha Fahmy (Egypt) Deputy Chairman Members Amadou Diakit (Mali) Omar Sey (Gambia) Belaid Lacarne (Algeria) Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Eritrea) Badara Sene (Senegal) Petcha Laurent (Cameroun) Kalombo Bester (Malawi) Linus Mba (Nigeria) Godfried Eku (Togo)
Advisor :
SECURITY & FAIR-PLAY COMMITTEE COMMISSION SECURITE ET FAIR-PLAY

President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Mawade Wade (Senegal) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Viken Djizmedjian (Media Officer)
General Secretary:
AFRICAN REPRESENTATIVES IN FIFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE REPRESENTANTS AFRICAINS AU COMITE EXECUTIF DE LA FIFA
Issa Hayatou (Cameroun) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Ismail Bhamjee (Botswana) Amadou Diakit Vice-President Member Member Member
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS COMMISSION DORGANISATION DE LA COUPE DAFRIQUE DES NATIONS
President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Ismail Bhamjee (Botswana) Amadou Diakit (Mali) Said Belkhayat (Morocco) Molefi Oliphant (RSA) Mackaya-Tamane (Gabon) Gnral Zoumaro Gnofame (Togo) Col. Souley Mohamed (Burkina Faso) W.K. Agrah (Ghana) Brig. Gen. Dominic Oneya (Nigeria) Justino Fernandes (Angola) Issak Tafere (Ethiopia) Hani Abou Reida (Egypt) Tarek Bouchemaoui (Tunisie) Patrick Okpomo (Nigeria) Benony Jacques (Madagascar) Sory Ibrahima Makanguile (Mali 2002) (Tunisia 2004)
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE COMITE DURGENCE

President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Gnral Seyi Mmne (Togo) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Ismail Bhamjee (Botswana) Mbongo Sylvestre (Congo)
FINANCE COMMITTEE COMMISSION DES FINANCES

President Members Ismal Bhamjee (Botswana) Gnral Seyi Mmne (Togo) Joab Omino (Kenya) Adoum Djibrine (Tchad) Owona Pascal Baylon (Cameroon) Teklemariam Gizaw (Ethiopia) Anouma Jacques (Cte dIvoire) Mahmoud Hammami (Tunisie) Suketu Patel (Seychelles)
COMMITTEE FOR THE MERIDIAN PROJECT COMMISSION PROJET MERIDIEN

Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Mustapha Fahmy (Egypt) Dr. Baba Sakho (Guinea)
Advisor :
REFEREES COMMITTEE COMMISSION DES ARBITRES

Chairman Farah Addo (Somalia)
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Manuel Dnde (Sao Tome) Thierry Kamach (Centrafrique) Ananda Vuddamalay (Mauritius) El Hadji Malick Sy (Senegal) Roger Ouegnin (Cte dIvoire) Youssouf Ould Vall (Mauritania) Seydou Diakit (Burkina Faso) Moses Baransananiye (Burundi) Mahamat Saleh Issa (Tchad) Kunene Patrick (Swaziland) Sub committee for Women football and Futsal Sous commission pour le football fminin et le Futsal President Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Members Farah Addo (Somalia) Said Belkhayat (Maroc) Adoum Djibrine (Tchad) Leo Mugabe (Zimbabwe) Baidi Couloubaly (Mauritania) Nehaissi Youssef (Libya) Denis Obua (Uganda) Kayizari Cesar (Rwanda) Manga Obiang Bonifacio (Guinea Equatorial) Othman Al Bashir (Sudan) Mrs. Tsichlas Nastasia (South Africa) Semede Mario Mendes dos Reis (Cap Vert) Mohieddin Ndolanga (Tanzania) Abdoulaye Muller (Cameroun) Ousmane Conateh (Gambia) Bangoura Ali (Guine) Mohieddin Hassan (Somalie) Souleyman Magassouba (Mali)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF INTER-CLUBS COMPETITIONS COMMISSION DORGANISATION DES COMPETITIONS INTER-CLUBS

President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Dr. Amos Adamu (Nigeria) Slim Chiboub (Tunisie) Hima Souley (Niger) Al Hadji Jawula (Ghana) Placide Engandzas (Gabon) Mohamed Hussein Osman (Egypt) Simplice Zinsou (Cte dIvoire) Mohamed Raouraoua (Algerie) Martin Adjagodo (Benin) Iya Mohamed (Cameroun) Tidiane Niambele (Mali) Suketu Patel (Seychelles) Karim Alem (Morocco)
STATUTES AND REGULATIONS COMMITTEE COMMISSION DES STATUTS ET REGLEMENTS

President Members Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Amadou Diakit (Mali) Molefi Oliphant (South Africa) Ousseynou Dieng (Cte dIvoire) Moncef Foudhaili (Tunisia) Omar Kezzal (Algeria) Franois Compaor (Burkina Faso) Harun Bomet (Kenya) Justice Tolla Thomson (Sierra Leone) Evaristo Dauti Kasungo (Zambia) Rock Gnassingbe (Togo) Alhagi Sosseh (Gambia) President Eritrea FA Edwin Snowe (Liberia) David Fani (Botswana) Mbaye Ndoye (Senegal) Mohamed Moufid (Morocco) Gourna-Zacko Justin (Centrafrique) Damaseb Petrus (Namibia)
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE COMMISSION DE DEVELOPPEMENT TECHNIQUE

President Members Mawade Wade (Senegal) Gnral Seyi Memene (Togo) Sylvestre Mbongo (Congo) Dr. Amos Adamu (Nigeria) C.K. Gyamfi (Ghana) Nabi Camara (Guinea) Mario Coluna (Mozambique) Sad Amara (Algeria) Kamal Sheddad (Soudan) Mohamed Yusuf Ahmed (Somalia) Hani Moustafa (Egypt) Kalala Mukendi Pierre (RD Congo) Ben Kouffie (Ghana) John Zingale (Malawi) Bayae Hissein (Tchad) Technical Advisor :Rachid Mekhloufi (Algeria)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF YOUTH COMPETITIONS, WOMENS FOOTBALL AND 5-A-SIDE COMMISSION DORGANISATION DES COMPETITIONS DE JEUNES, DU FOOTBALL FEMININ ET DU FUTSAL
Sub Committee of Youth competitions (U-20 & U-17) Sous Commission des comptitions de Jeunes (U-20 & U-17) President Members Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia) Gnral Seyi Memene (Togo) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Mbongo Sylvestre (Congo) Joab Omino (Kenya) Almamy Kabele Camara (Guinea) Mme. Fatou Sarr-Ba (Senegal) Samson Omeruah (Nigeria) Thabo Makakole (Lesotho) Hussein Fadoul (Djibouti)
APPEALS COMMITTEE COMMISSION DAPPEL

President Members Gnral Seyi Mmne (Togo) Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Amadou Diakit (Mali) Mawade Wade (Senegal) Joab Omino (Kenya)
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PROTOCOL
Chief of Protocol: Assistant to the Chief of Protocol: Amadou Diakit (Mali) Mme. Fatou Ba-Sarr (Senegal) Malou Tchamdja (Togo)
Segun Odegbami (Nigeria) Ahmed Shoubeir (Egypt) Franois MPel (Congo) Kaizer Motaung (South Africa) Menguistu Worku (Ethiopia) Abega Theophile (Cameroun)
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Advisor to the Presidency : Fekrou Kidane (Ethiopia) Presidential Protocol and Attach to the Presidency: Appolinnaire Nguangu (Cameroon)
COMMISSION DE PROMOTION ET DE SPONSORING (AD-HOC)

President Members Slim Aloulou (Tunisia) Mohamed Raouraoua (Algeria) Hassan Hamdi (Egypt) Papa Diack (Senegal) Kodjo Annan (Ghana) Leo Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
PRESS COMMITTEE COMMISSION DE PRESSE

President Members Mbongo Sylvestre (Congo) Hatem Zakaria (Egypt) Paul Bassey (Nigeria) Ouattara Hgaud (Cte dIvoire) Djibril Traor (Mali) Mustapha Badri (Morocco) Joseph Ghislain Gabio (Congo) Mark Gleeson (South Africa) Mendes Hipolito Jos (Guinea Bissau) Kabulo Mwana Kabulo (RD Congo) Nicholas Musonye (Kenya) Acha Falode (Nigeria) Dr. Viken Djizmedjian (CAF Press officer) Faouzi Mahjoub (CAF Press consultant) Abel Mbengue (Press Attach CAF office Yaound)
MEDICAL COMMITTEE COMMISSION MEDICALE

President Members Prof. Hosny Abdel Rahman (Egypt) Dr. Zakia Bartagui (Tunisia) Prof. Tsala Mbala Pierre (Cameroun) Dr. Abdel Malek Sentissi (Morocco) Dr. James Sekajugo (Uganda) Dr. Yacine Zerguini (Algrie) co-opted
FIFA/CAF CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE COMMISSION CONSULT. FIFA/CAF

Issa Hayatou (Cameroon) Farah Addo (Somalia)
ZONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE REFEREES COMMITTEE REPRESENTANTS DE ZONES DE LA COMMISSION DES ARBITRES
Bahou Mohamed (Maroc) Louis Laryea (Ghana) Birame Ndiaye (Senegal) Marcel Ndjipendi (Cameroon) Mfubusa Bernard (Burundi) Valdemarca Franck (Zimbabwe)
COMMISSION POUR LE FOOTBALL FOOTBALL COMMITTEE

President Members Amadou Diakit (Mali) Jule Bocand (Senegal) Japhet Ndoram (Tchad)
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African refereeing in the World Cup L arbitrage la Coupe du monde

By Farah Addo President of CAF Referees Committee
efereeing at the world cup was constrained for Africa for quite sometime. But thanks to the CAF vision of refereeing developing which it undertook in the last decade, we have come up with new cadres ending up with an African referee officiating in the final of the 1998 world cup, something which has encouraged other African referees to embark on better programs and take training seriously. As you followed there was a lot of disapproval of refereeing in the world cup 2002. As a person in charge of African refereeing I may say that this criticism was baseless according to the laws of the game and were founded only upon the fact that some teams like Korea, Japan, Turkey and Senegal, who were listed as outsiders, have ousted big names like Italy, Spain and Argentina. It is unfortunate that the quality of those teams was not taken seriously and people opted for loopholes to diminish Koreas accomplishment of ousting two big names like Italy and Spain. Instead of acknowledging the progress of these outsiders, they insinuated corruption about the referees. In my view, the refereeing was good generally and I would say no referee has done any intentional mistakes or had any instructions to do so, as claimed by some. We are proud that no African referee made any mistakes and they were awarded an average of above 8 points from 10 by the refereeing committee of FIFA, of which I was a member during the world cup 2002 . We had 5 referees and 5 assistants and none made any mistakes according to the reports. In the case of the referee Gamal El Ghandour for Korea vs Spain, he took his decision of whistling due to the signal of his assistant before any goal was scored. Can anyone criticize him for that or whisper favoritism? The problem seems to be that there is no more a big nation of football and smaller ones in football and all are equal as it was shown by the results achieved by Senegal, Korea, Japan, Turkey and USA. I do not see any reason for worries or rumors! Somebody spoke of big football countries with big referees and small countries in football with no referees, however that was proven wrong during this world cup, where most of the mistakes were done by the so-called big countries of football referees, unless that meant no small countries referees can do better than the above. It is not in the interest of the world football authorities to create this kind of atmosphere or invent a way of refereeing by TV or robots to denaturalize the actual beauty of football refereed by a human being. We should accept human mistakes without going deeply into recrimination of nations, which may divide world football We may suggest to improve refereeing by some helpful elements of technical or electronic nature, a better instruction set, training or a change in the system of selection while respecting continental representation, but never should we attempt to create an elite of referees for a few countries to divide world football which may create animosity and oppositions within FIFA. Those who were not happy with the results have to blame their teams and embark on reorganizing, but never attempt again to put the blame on referees of any continent. Referees are human and destined to make mistakes but we should never surpass the acceptance of the human attitude.
endant une assez longue priode, lAfrique ne pouvait pas arbitrer des matchs de la phase finale de la Coupe du monde. Mais, grce la politique de dveloppement de larbitrage mise en pratique par la CAF lors de la dernire dcennie, nous y sommes parvenus du fait de lmergence de nouveaux cadres au point quun Africain ait dirig la finale du Mondial 98. Cette promotion a stimul des vocations et encourag dautres arbitres africains se prparer avec plus de srieux et dabngation. Comme beaucoup dentre vous lont constat, la Coupe du monde 2002 a t maill par de nombreuses dcisions arbitrales controverses. En tant que responsable de larbitrage africain, jaffirme que les critiques nont pas concernes lapplication des lois du jeu mais parce que des quipes comme celles de la Core, du Japon, du Sngal et de la Turquie, considres comme de simples outsiders, ont vinc des favoris comme lItalie, lEspagne ou lArgentine. Ces quipes navaient t prises au srieux, et ctait fort regrettable et certains ont tent de discrditer le parcours victorieux de la Core parce que celle-ci avait sorti lItalie puis lEspagne. Au lieu de reconnatre les progrs accomplis par nos outsiders, on a tent de les discrditer en portant des accusations de corruption contre les arbitres. De mon point de vue, larbitrage en Core et au Japon fut gnralement bon. Aucun arbitre na commis derreur intentionnelle et aucun na reu dinstructions dans ce sens. Nous sommes particulirement fiers du comportement de nos cinq arbitres et de nos cinq assistants. Les rapports laffirment : aucun dentre eux na commis de faute. Et la Commission darbitrage de la FIFA (dont je faisais partie durant la Coupe du monde) leur a accord des notes dont la moyenne se situe 8 sur 10. Quant Gamal el Ghandour qui a dirig le quart de finale Core Espagne, il a dcid dannuler un but espagnol en se fiant au signal de son assistant. On ne peut pas len critiquer ou laccuser de favoritisme.Le fait est quil ny a plus de grande nation de football et que les petites peuvent dsormais rivaliser avec les grandes comme en tmoignent les performances de la Core, des Etats Unis, du Japon, du Sngal et de la Turquie. Alors foin des inquitudes ou des rumeurs ! Quelquun a prtendu que les grands pays de football ont de grands arbitres et que les petits ou prsums tels nen ont pas. La Coupe du monde a infirm ces propos : la plupart des erreurs commises ont t le fait darbitres originaires de ces grands pays, alors pourquoi ceux des petits pays ne pouvaient-ils pas faire mieux ? Il nest pas dans lintrt des hautes autorits du football de crer une telle atmosphre ou de menacer de recourir larbitrage tlvis, procd qui ne pourrait que nuire la beaut de notre jeu et le dshumaniser. Lerreur humaine doit tre accepte sans susciter des rcriminations susceptibles de diviser la plante foot. Lon peut suggrer de renforcer larbitrage en recourant quelque assistance technologique, en dlivrant des instructions plus svres, en modifiant le systme de dsignation (lequel doit toutefois respecter le principe de la reprsentation continentale) mais jamais sautoriser crer une caste dlite au service de quelques pays. Ce serait provoquer la zizanie et lanimosit entre les membres de la grande famille de la FIFA. Ceux qui ne sont pas contents des performances de leurs quipes doivent les en blmer et sefforcer de les faire rebondir mais ils nont pas le droit de se dfausser sur les arbitres dun continent ou dun autre. Les arbitres restent des tres humains susceptibles de commettre des erreurs mais ils ne pourront jamais aller au del de
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The Road to Tunisia 2004 OBJECTIF TUNISIE 2004

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s the African cup of nations qualifiers have just started, the African continent will be enthusiastically following the group matches that will result in 14 teams qualifying to the finals in 2004 in addition to the title holders, Cameroon, and the hosts, Tunisia. In the north, four nations; Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have many common qualities. First of all, it is obvious that they have not yet overcome the repercussions of the World Cup's campaign. Although Tunisia did reach the finals, it had a degrading outing. The other 3 nations, who failed to qualify, had no other alternative but to sacrifice their coaches in an attempt to absorb the fans' furious uproar. Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria all hired temporary coaches to take over their teams in this transient period, while in fact each of them are still looking for what looks to be a foreign manager for their teams. Ironically the 3 neighbors went into serious negotiations with Frenchman, Filipe Troussier - Japan's former coach in the last world cup who led Burkina Faso to the fourth place in ACN 1998 - but none of them convinced the white magician to return to Africa. Even Egypt's coach Mohsen Saleh, who replaced the legendary Mahmoud Al Gohary, is not guaranteed to stay for long. Saleh, who last season led Ismaili club to the third league title in their history without a single defeat, will be facing a lot of obstacles in his new post. Opting for youth players and releasing old players may prove to be an impossible strategy. Nevertheless, Egypt had a good period of preparation for the African Cup of Nations qualifiers, taking the share of the lion in the CAF clubs' competitions with 4 clubs participating, 2 of which Ahly and Zamalek, partaking in the continent's most valuable competition, the Champion's League. The national team itself had its share of preparatory matches. They enjoyed an easy 4-1 win over Ethiopia, and entertained another 2-0 victory over Uganda before beating Sudan 3-1. But they ended their matches with a shocking defeat to Libya 0-1 It was an opportunity for Saleh to make some changes in the team's line-up and give chances to some new faces, despite the fact that the standard of the opponents was not that high, though it was good enough for the mission, since Egypt will be playing in what appears to be an easy group along with the African Islands of Madagascar and Mauritius. Algeria, who is playing in group 12 along with Namibia and Chad, should not be fooled by their seemingly easy group. Chad has appointed the Cameroonian Akono as its new coach, but even he didn't show any optimism about his team's future. However, the North Africans should watch out for the southern state of Namibia. Namibia has been taking part in every major competition organized by CAF or FIFA lately in addition to their participation in the COSAFA Castle cup. The progress of the game in this country is moving at a tremendous rate. The players have become more experienced and it is just a matter of time before they hit the jackpot. Algerian football, which has been in a coma for the last decade, could be their next victim. Algeria's last appearance on the football scene was last May when they drew with Belgium 0-0 in Brussels. Later on, the Algerian FA sacked their coach Rabah Madjer as a result of his offensive remarks about the officials in the Federation. Considering that the team caretaker Hamid Zuba chose almost a course la qualification pour la CAN 2004 a dmarr en trombe dchanant enthousiasme et passion. Quatorze places de finalistes sont en jeu ; la Tunisie pays orginasteur et le Cameroun, champion en titre occuperont les deux autres places. Dans la zone Nord, quatre pays ( Algrie, Egypte, Tunisie et Maroc) affrontent les mmes problmes. Ils nont encore tout fait digr les suites de la campagne du Mondial 2002. La Tunisie qui avait arrach un ticket pour la phase finale na pas particulirement brill au Japon do elle est repartie bredouille. Les trois avaient manqu la qualification. Depuis, ils ont sacrifi leurs entraneurs pour calmer la colre de leurs supporters. La Tunisie, le Maroc et lAlgrie ont requis les services de techniciens intrimaires pour assurer la transition avant de se lancer dans la chasse au messie tranger. Tous trois ont sollicit lex-entraneur du Japon Philippe Troussier mais le sorcier blanc sest montr trop gourmand et trop exigeant. En fin de compte, seule la Tunisie est parvenue engager lex-entraneur de lquipe de France Roger Lemerre, limog, en contrepartie dun joli pactole, par ses anciens employeurs et vitipendi par la presse franaise. En Egypte, Mohamed Saleh qui a succd au lgendaire Mahmoud al Gohary nest pas certain de conserver longtemps son post. Saleh qui a permis, la saison passe, Al Ismaly de remporter son troisime titre national sans concder la moindre dfaite, affronte de srieux obstacles. Sa dcision de rajeunir leffectif de la slection et de se passer des services des vieilles gloires a soulev une leve de boucliers. Toutefois, la participation de quatre clubs gyptiens aux comptitions interclubs de la CAF lui facilite quelque peu la tche en sollicitant rgulirement les slectionns, notamment ceux appartenant Al Ahly et Zamalek qui visent la conqute du trophe de la Ligue des champions. En matchs de prparation, lEgypte a domin lEthiopie (4-1), lOuganda (2-0) et le Soudan ( 3-1) avant de concder la dfaite face la Libye (0-1). Un faux pas suivi le 8 septembre par une entre en scne rate devant Madagascar Antananarivo : 0-1 (but Menahely Ruphin). En dpit de cette contre-performance, lEgypte avec ou non Mohamed Saleh parat en mesure dassurer sa qualification devant les insulaires malgaches et mauriciens. Mme remarque pour lAlgrie qui a pour adversaires le Tchad et la Namibie. Certes, le Tchad a recrut lentraneur des champions olympiques le Camerounais Jean Paul Akono mais il ne parat pas en mesure de barrer la route aux Algriens toujours en qute dun encadrement europen. Hamid Zouba, lancien membre de lquipe du FLN assure, depuis le limogeage de Rabah Madjer, un intrim satisfaisant : son quipe (o lon retrouve huit expatris voluant en France) est revenue, le 7 septembre, dun long dplacement Windhok avec les trois points de la victoire face la Namibie (0-1). Une quipe qui dispute toutes les comptitions de la FIFA et de la CAF en plus de la Castle Cup organise par la Cosafa et dont les progrs tardent se dvoiler. Dans le groupe 7, les Lions de lAtlas ont ramen trois de leur dplcement Libreville o ils ont battu le Gabon qui a confi ses destines au Belge Michel De Wolf (1-0). Ils sont en tte du groupe avec la Sierra Leone. Celle-ci avec sa vedette de lInter de Milan Mohamed Kallon est en mesure dinquiter le Maroc qui retrouve aprs huit ans un encadrement local avec la confirmation au poste de slectionneur national du prestigieux gardien de but Badou Ezzaki, lun des hros du Mundial 86. Les pros seront toujours prsents, notamment li-
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the same line-up, with 8 French-based players and talented figures like Saifi Rafik, the Desert warriors should not have much trouble accomplishing their mission. Morocco leads group 7 with Gabon, Eq. Guinea and Sierra Leone as their competitors. Sierra Leone, with its one-man show starring Mohamed Kallon, might be Morocco's toughest challenge. However, the Atlas lions, under the command of their former legendary goalkeeper in Mexico 86's World Cup Badu Zaki, should not face any problems doing their homework. Morocco will continue to rely on their European-based figures. The Moroccan federation officials believe that their group is easy enough not to rush signing a new coach to lead the team in this stage. On the other hand, Libya, in an attempt to re-establish itself in the football world, is making some revolutionary changes trying hard to catch up with the international scene of the game. They appointed the Italian Scoglio, who has had African experience when he coached Tunisia in 2000 and was the former coach of Italian side Genoa. However, due to internal disputes he was sacked in mid- September. The Libyan FA has even started to import some celebrities into their game as their Club El Ettihad lately signed the famous Cameroonian Mboma from Parma. Libya's ambitions, which are led by Ettihad club's player and chairman of the FA, El Saadi Al Qadafi, son of the head of the state, will be faced by the first class players Nonda and Premiere League star Lua Lua, who are expected to lead RD Congo's campaign in this group. Libya may be trying hard to return to the game, their last and only appearance was back in 1982 when they hosted the cup of nations. They will be needing to gather all their resources in order to overcome the Simbas. In the East, where this part of the continent needs to be resuscitated, no country from this regions was able to reach the Cup of Nations finals since Morocco 1988 when Kenya was among the final eight. The Leopards, this time under the command of Jacob Mulee, are more than ready for the qualifiers, with an intensive warming up program in Africa and Asia recalling all their players who are based in Europe. Kenya and Togo will be facing a fierce battle to qualify from the group. While another Western competitor, Cape Verde, is calling their Portuguese based. Although Cape Verde are the group under-
namovible capitaine Nouredine Naybet, mais ils sont concurrencs par une nouvelle vague dont le leader est le jeune attaquant du Raja de Casablanca Mehdi Aboucherouane. La Libye qui ambitionne de retrouver, vingt quatre ans aprs la phase finale de la CAN, ne cesse de dfrayer la chronique. Elle a engag lItalien Francesco Scoglio (il avait dirig la Tunisie de 1998 2000) lequel eut du mal composer avec son employeur et en mme temps joueur Saadi Kadhafi. Parce que Scoglio ne la pas align face aux Simbas congolais Tripoli et en dpit de la victoire libyenne (3-2), Saadi a dmis lItalien de ses fonctions la mi-septembre avant de le rembaucher dix jours plus tard !Lon ne sait si Scoglio a fait marche arrire et accept de titulariser le prsident de la Fdration libyenne ou si , celui-ci a pris enfin conscience des limites de son talent. La Libye devra en tout cas en dcoudre avec le Botswana et le Swaziland et se rendre le 26 juin 2003 au stade des Maryrs Kinshasa o les Simbas compteront sur le punch de Shabani Nonda (A.S. Monaco) et de Lomana Tressor Lua Lua (Newcastle, Angleterre) pour prendre leur revanche. LAfrique de lEst parviendra-t-elle souvrir les portes de la CAN 2004. La dernire apparition dune quipe de cette zone remonte la CAN 1992 au Sngal : le Kenya ny avait pas franchi le premier tour. Cette fois-ci les Harambee Stars, dirigs par Jacob Ghost Mulee semblent avoir bien prpar la campagne de qualification. Ils ont rappel tous les expatris et ont boucl un programme de mise en forme intensif. Et dentre, ils ont annonc la couleur en crasant leur principal adversaire, le Togo (3-0). Le Cap-Vert et la Mauritanie sen tireront-ils mieux face aux Knyans ? Dans le groupe 13, les Uganda Cranes renforcs par Hakim Magumba, Hassan Mubiru et l Irlandais Livingstone Charles Mbabazi et prpars par Paul Edwin Hasule ont de suite donn du fil retordre au Black Star du Ghana conduit par son nouvel entraneur le Serbe Milan Zivadinovic et lont battu (1-0). De retour Accra, Zivadinovic est contraint de rendre son tablier et la GAFA a rappel lincontournable Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie. Le Rwanda sera larbitre du duel ougando-ghanen. Dans la Zone Ouest A, les Lions de la Teranga ne devraient pas trop puiser dans leurs rserves pour franchir les obstacles reprsents par Sao Tom e Principe, la Gambie et le Lesotho. Reste savoir si le dpart prmatur du coach Bruno Metsu pour un club des Emirats Arabes Unis ne perturbura pas trop la stabilit et la cohsion du
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dogs, they should trouble both Togo and Kenya. Another eastern side, Uganda took advantage of the recent re-creation of CECAFA and its competitions to prepare their players for bigger competitions. Uganda led by Hakim Magumba, Hassan Mubiru and Ireland based professional Livingstone Charles Mbabazi will give Ghana a hard time in their group. Nevertheless, the Black stars, who have a small army of professionals in Europe in addition to the talented local figures of Hearts of Oak and Kotoko would still have the better odds in this group. In the most powerful part of the game in this continent, the West, Senegal should have no problems qualifying from their group, that also includes Sao Tome, Gambia and Lesotho. After their outstanding performance in the last World Cup in Korea and Japan they have all the confidence and resources to qualify to the last 16. Despite the departure of the Frenchman and National hero Bruno Metsu who went to work in the UAE, the European well-known figures like Diouf, Fadiga and Henri Camara are capable of continuing the revolution they had brought about in the last Nations and World cups. If in most groups the outcome is more or less predictable, the most exciting and damaging clash will be between the Bafana Bafana of South Africa and the Elephants of Ivory Coast in group 11. South Africa who have had a sensational come back to the African scene since their return to the nations cup 1996 will be facing a very tough task. With a group of only 3 teams along with Burundi and one passing board, there will be no room for mistakes. Ivory Coast, who recently recalled French manager Robert Nouziett, are hoping to retain the reputation of the elephants, which was affected by the poor performance in the late editions of the ACN. Another giant clash will be between the Super Eagles and the new power in African football, Angola. Nigeria, with their first class players like Kanu, Okocha and Aghahowa, will be facing a tough challenge against the Angolans, with their Benfica star Mantorras, who was named best youth player in the continent last year. This encounter will be awaited by all football fans along the continent. Zimbabwe, is another Southern side looking forward to be lifted out of the doldrums. The Warriors who had the reputation of being one of the most unlucky teams in the continent since they always lose their qualifying ticket in the last stages. They will be very keen to grab what would look like a last chance for a generation led by their veteran Peter Ndlovu. The warrior's task should concentrate on overcoming one of the most promising nations, Mali. The former hosts of the ACN led by Seydou Keita should pay a lot of respect to the Warriors who had always been the masters in shooting at their own foot, but this time, Zimbabwe may finally find the right foot through their new talent Mwaruwar who plays for French side Auxerre. The combination of Ndlovu's experience and Mwaruwar power should give Zimbabwe a great boost in their campaign. For the first time CAF cancelled the preliminary stages from the qualifying rounds. This gave more countries the opportunity to join the race for the Tunisia 2004 finals. It will be interesting to follow some countries like the ambitious Cape Verde, Angola, Zimbabwe, Liberia - without their lone star Weah for the first time - in addition to the return of Guinea to the football scene and Libya, who are trying hard to reinstate themselves in the international game. Amr Shaheen
groupe. Dj loccasion du dplacement au Lesotho, El Hadji Diouf et Salif Diao (tous sous contrat avec Liverpool) ont dclar forfait pour des raisons personnelles. Les assistants de Metsu, Jules Bocand et Abdoulaye Sarr ont pour mission dassurer la succession et de ne pas dilapider lhritage. Le groupe est plac sous le signe dun passionnant duel Afrique du Sud Cte dIvoire. Les Bafana Bafana nont pas dmrit en Core et ils rat in extremis la qualification pour le second tour. Ils ont perdu leur coach Jomo Sono remplac par Ephram Shakes Mashaba jusque-l responsable des quipes de jeunes. Mashaba compte plus sur les joueurs locaux et sur les expatris de talent comme lirascible Benny Mc Carthy et Siyabonga Nomvete. Les Elphants de Cte dIvoire ont fait leur rvolution aprs leur cinglant chec au Mali. Exit lentraneur Lama Bamba. Exit Ousseynou Dieng le prsident de la Fdration. Promotion de Jacques Anouma et rappel du Franais Robert Nouzaret. Les potentialits ne manquent pas avec les Acadmiciens expatris (Aruna Dindane, Maestro, Abib Kolo, Zzto), les nombreux pros oprant en Europe et en Afrique du Nord et les joueurs locaux. Nouzaret entend rester fidle son style de jeu offensif et donner du plaisir ses joueurs. Les vnements lui permettront-ils de tenir un pari audacieux et sympathique. Le Burundi se contentera-t-il de servir de faire-valoir ses deux rivaux de poule ? Un autre duel acharn oppose les Super Eagles du Nigeria aux Palancas Negras dAngola. Depuis leur expdition sans gloire au Japon, les Nigrians ont chang de coach : lancien international Christian Chukwu a remplac au pied lev Chief F. Onigbinde. Quant aux Angolais, ils ont recrut le Brsilien Ismal Kuntz qui avait dirig en 1996 le Black Star du Ghana sans rellement convaincre. A Luanda, le 8 septembre, les deux formations se sont neutralises (0-0). Il faudra attendre le match retour, prvu le 21 juin 2003 pour connatre le vainqueur de ce groupe 1 moins que le Malawi ne perturbe les calculs des uns et des autres. Dans le groupe 6, le Zimbabwe court aprs une qualification qui le fuit depuis 1988. Il a commenc par accueillir et par terrasser Harare, sous la conduite de lentraneur Sunday Marimo, les Aigles du Mali placs sous lautorit technique du Franais Christian Dalger (1-0). Le retour aura lieu le 22 juin 2003 au stade du 26-mars Bamako et dici l, les deux rivaux doivent en dcoudre avec lErytre et les Seychelles et ne pas perdre de points. A suivre de prs dans ce groupe nouvel attaquant zimbabwen de lA.J. Auxerre, Benjamin Mwaruzwari ainsi que tous les expatris maliens avec le no Lensois Seydou Keita en tte. Dans le groupe 2, cest le retour du Syli de Guine aprs une mise an ban de deux ans par la FIFA. Un retour en fanfare puisque les Guinens ont dentre trill Conakry le onze du Liberia (3-0) au sein duquel a fait dfaut le charismatique George Weah. Lentraneur franais Dussoyer est heureux de pouvoir compter sur de talentueux expatris comme Pascal Feidouno (Bordeaux) et Fod Mansar (Montpellier) et les exprments Pablo Thiam (Bayern Munich),Titi Camara (West Ham) et Morlaye Soumah (Bastia). Guinens et Libriens devront toutefois prendre en considration leurs adversaires de groupe, le Niger et lEthiopie et bien ngocier le voyage sur les hauteurs dAddis Abeba. Dans le groupe 3, la Zambie est un favori attendu surtout depuis son dplacement victorieux Khartoum o les hommes de Patrick Phiri ont glan trois points prcieux (1-0) face au Soudan. Ils auront toutefois raison de ne pas pavoiser trop vite car ils vont avoir affaire aux Bninois et aux Tanzaniens. Le groupe 4 parat plus ouvert. Les Etalons du Burkina ont un lger avantage sur les deux principaux adversaires les Diables rouges du Congo et le Mozambique. Notons que pour la premire fois, la CAF a gomm les prliminaires et pass directement aux groupes de qualification. Cette innovation permettra-t-elle aux petites quipes de bouleverser la hirarchie tablie et de glaner des billets pour Tunisie 2004 ? Amr Shaheen

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Official publication of Confdration Africaine de Football

No. 76, September/Septembre 2002

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