THE TRIPLE HISTORY OF HAFIA FC: .

On December 18, 2020 marks the 42 th anniversary of the historic treble of Hafia FC pennant our club.
An exceptional generation of footballers, who shone brightly in many stadiums across the continent. Back
on the winning journey of this dream team.
Two years after the conquest of the continental trophy, the Hafia Football Club of Conakry is again
engaged in 1977 in the 13th edition of the African Cup of champion clubs. The memory of Algiers is still
present and very vivid in people's minds. Few are those who continue to trust the former champions of
Africa. It is in this climate of instability that the Hafia begins the competition
First in Brazzaville in Congo, the Hafia, after a slight domination removed the win of the match thanks to
a goal from Bengaly Sylla.In the return match, contrary to all expectations and from the start of
hostilities, M'Bemba Tostao scored for his colors. The Hafia will run behind the equalizer until the last
minutes, which will be achieved thanks to a penalty converted by Papa Camara. Final score 1-1.
The next round pitted the Guinean champion against his counterpart from Nigeria, the Water Corporation,
who surprised more than one observer by inflicting four goals on the Hafia, who despite the lines of
Seydouba Bangoura and Papa Camara could not live up to his opponent. It was not until the return match
that the Hafia regained the advantage to the mark: 3-0 including two goals from Papa Camara and one
from Bengaly Sylla. This victory propels the Guinean champion into the ½ final. The opponent is an old
acquaintance, Lomé 1 who wins at home by 2 goals to 1. Insufficient score to continue the race. Indeed,
in Conakry, thanks to the goals of Papa Camara and Bengaly Sylla, the Togolese 'hope of playing a
second continental final is dashed. The Hafia wins the right to play its 4th final. A final which must
oppose him to the champion of Ghana, the Hearts Of Oak, the first African professional club, which for
its part has just taken a nice revenge on the excellent Mufulira of Zambia. (3-0).
December 4, 1977 in Accra
In the El Wak stadium of Accra, this December 4, more than 45,000 spectators invade the stands. Among
them, Ghanaians, Guineans, Ivorians, Burkinabé, Togolese, Beninese. It is in this joyous sporting
celebration that Amara Touré, thanks to an intelligent lob, gives the advantage to her team. This hard-won
point will not be erased despite the rushes of desperation from the locals. What was a dream a few
minutes before the game becomes a tangible reality.
December 18, 1977 in Conakry
With his lead in the first leg, the Guinean champion begins this historic final with determination and
unfailing commitment. In 25 minutes, the Guinean champion strikes twice. We are waiting for a third goal
that would have KO the Hearts of Oak for the account. But the Hafia falls asleep too early on this advance
which it considers substantial. The “Green-Whites” are slipping down, allowing Ghanaians to set the
record straight.
On a long ball from Tanko Ayuba, Anas Seydou jumps higher than Moussa Camara and surprises
Abdoulaye Keïta who remains frozen on his line. Then, it is Mama Acquah who puts the two teams on an
equal footing. The suspense becomes more tense than ever. The Ghanaians only need a tiny goal to win
the trophy. Doubt takes hold of each other. Meanwhile, the small Ghanaian colony that made the trip, at
full speed, is having a blast. It will not be for long since Seydouba Bangoura and Papa Camara, at the cost
of a judicious combination, and thanks to a superb left, from the Guinean captain, give the advantage to
the Guinean champion. However, the opponent does not give up. He in turn attacks with more force. The
locals' camp is taken over. Bullets are firing from everywhere,
Fortunately, the Hafia is watching. The final whistle comes on the score of three goals to two. This new
victory definitively grants the continental trophy to the champion of Guinea. This is the end of a legend,
that of the cup brought into play by the Pan-Africanist President of Ghana, Doctor Kwamé N'Krumah.
During the 13 th edition of the African Cup of Champion Clubs, the Hafia FC scored 14 goals just to
concede that 9.
This season's scorers in the team are called:
1- Naby Laye Camara said Papa Camara 6 goals
2- Bangaly Sylla 4 goals
3- Seydouba Bangoura 2 goals
4- Ibrahima Sory Keïta 'Petit Sory' 1 goal
5- Amara Touré 1 goal
Avatars of success
Four decades after this continental triumph, the footballers of this golden generation of Guinean football
have experienced varying fortunes. The most famous of them, El Hadj Chérif Souleymane, the country's
sole golden ball, is now a FIFA instructor and national technical director. After having been in 1980
national coach at the head of the national Syli at this year's CAN in Nigeria, five years later, he led the
junior Syli to the world class in China. Successively, he occupied the functions of director of the stadium
of September 28, member of the technical support of the national team, then national technical director
from 2000 to 2014, year in which he resigned. After a few months of unemployment, he signed for a few
months at L'Association Sportive du Kaloum, and in the supervision of Horoya AC. In August 2017, Petit
Sory for his part is General Manager of the sports complex of the 28 September stadium in Conakry.
Several former African champions work in the administration and the private sector.
Fate will have been fatal for others, such as Soumah Soriba Edenté, the very first captain of the Hafia who
lifted the trophy conquered in 1972. He died on June 11, 2004 in total destitution following a long illness.
Another famous disappeared, Mamadou Aliou Keïta better known under the name of N'Jo Léa, victim of
a heart attack on April 11, 2004. In this chapter of the deaths, it is necessary to quote among others, Aly
Badara Keïta Kolev, Arsène Campbell, Morciré Sylla, Ibrahima Soumah Calva 3, Alsény Diaby Lévia,
Gassimou Camara Hidalgo, Kabinè Kouyaté Pégri, Amara Touré, Youssouf Jansky, Ousmane Mané
Garrincha, Mory Koné, Papa Camara, Bangaly Sylla, Papa Camara, etc.
If the Hafia Football Club still exists as such, it has lost a lot of its luster. He is currently in the soft
underbelly of the Premier League championship. The former glories of Hafia, which created an
association, unfortunately did not take over the management of the club. Over the years, for lack of a real
policy of preserving the vestiges of the past, the memory of this legendary club gradually fades.
Fortunately, the businessman Kerfalla Person Camara was kind enough to take over this legendary
national football club. With an ambitious sports project, this patron intends in the medium term to provide
this club with a sports center, which will train a generation of students capable of reconnecting with the
successes of yesteryear.

For a legendary sports training in Africa, the Guinean team called "Hafia FC" from Conakry is one of
them. National holder of nearly fifteen league titles, this formation was first called Conakry II because of
its location in the Guinean capital.
After successively removing the sports season on three occasions from 1966 to 1968, it was renamed in
the early 1970s Hafia FC (Renaissance) in one of the country's languages. Had worn the jacket; famous
players like Petit Sory, Mamadou Aliou Keita, Morciré Sylla, Ousmane Tolo Thiam, Maxime Camara or
Cherif Souleymane, the only Guinean golden ball in Africa. A great rival to other Guinean formations
such as AS Kaloum, Horoya AC, Kakandé FC de Boké or ASFAG, the Hafia FC team had a brilliant
sporting career on the African level.
Participation limited to two rounds at the African level from 1966. More seasoned, Hafia FC in its
capacity as the representative club of Guinea - Conakry, will break through from the 1971-1972 sports
season, leaving no chance to its adversaries were the formation of the army of Niger, those of the Canon
FC of Cameroon, the Djoliba of Bamako, the TP Englebert (Mazembe) of the former Zaire (DRC) and the
Simbas of Uganda. A first trophy at the African level which sharpened the rage to win with a second in
1975 at the legendary Surulere stadium in Lagos against Enugu Rangers International
Again engaged in 1977 in the African Cup of Champions Clubs (African League), the path of Hafia FC
studded with its stars including Papa Camara, Seydouba Bangoura, Bengaly Sylla crossed that of the
Togolese club of Lomé 1 led by Geraldo Yaovi, Mébounou Kpadé, Apampa Ramanou, Hunkpati Spring,
da Silveira Adjévi, Kponton Sanvee, Agbala Luc Watekou, Doamekpo Kodjo. So beaten in the semi-final
first leg in Lomé with a score of 2 goals to 1, the team from the suburbs of Conakry was able to regain the
advantage during the return phase on the mark of 2 goals to 0.
Qualified for a fourth continental final, the Guinean side of Hafia FC have to do battle with the Ghanaian
side of the Hearts of Oak of Accra, victorious over their Zambian opponent of Mufulira. Winner in Accra
on the mark of a goal to zero, the Guinean representative is doing well on December 18, 1977 at the
September 28 stadium in Conakry on the mark of 3 goals to 2. A great first is thus achieved. The
definitive winning of the African trophy which bears the name of Kwame Nkrumah, the first Ghanaian
President who died in April 1972.
A club in search of its glorious past
Like many clubs such as the Oryx and the Union of Douala, the Canon and Tonnerre of Yaoundé, the
Stade and the Stella of Abidjan, Kumasi Asante Kokoto, Obuasi Ashanti Gold Sporting Club, Heart of
Oak of Accra , the Jaaraf and ASC Jeanne d'Arc from Dakar in Senegal, the Etoile Filante, the Model, the
CO Agaza from Lomé, Doumbé de Mango, Foadan from Dapaong, Semassi from Sokodé in Togo,
Rangers International from Enugu, Shooting Stars Ibadan, BCC Lions of Gboko in Nigeria, Club
Athlétique Renaissance Aiglons (CARA) of Brazzaville, Arab Contractors of Cairo, Mouloudia of
Algiers, JS Kabylie in Algeria, and many others, the Guinean formation of Hafia FC of Conakry is in
search of its glorious past.
The training three times champion of Africa in the category of club champions (African League) exists
very well. But it has lost its luster of yesteryear. In football; the best known internationally of the Guinean
teams, Hafia FC in Conakry, is fighting and looking to go up the slope. After experiencing the purgatory
of the Second Division, she returned to the fold of local football with ups and downs. Reached by age,
many of its famous players are no longer of this world. Those who still have the breath of life, had the
good idea to carry on the baptismal font a union of the old players in order to take care to keep the temple.
But the will alone remained insufficient.
Bought in 2006 by Business Sport Management (BSM), a structure that excels in sports management, the
legendary Hafia FC team in Conakry is chaired by Kerfalla Person Camara, the president of the National
Association of Builders of Guinea (ANCG) and vice-president of the Confédération Patronale des
Entreprises de Guinée (CPEG). Since then, he has taken care to reorganize the structure and management
of the club. At the level of the technical bench, Karim Bencherifa, former Moroccan international
converted coach is in charge.
Holder of the A PRO License, he went through his country, Morocco, but also in teams in Malta, Brunei,
Singapore and India. The 52-year-old technician arrived on Sunday, December 20 in Conakry to initial a
contract with the mission to put the Green and White club back on track, which has been looking for itself
since the start of the new sports season. As for the coach Pascal Baruxakis, holder of a C CAF license, he
will take care of the reserve team while waiting to obtain the required diploma and then resume the
technical bench of the first club, triple champion in Africa.

Petit Sory

Ibrahima Sory Keita. Born November 30, 1944 in Conakry (GUI) Guinea,
Forward, 1m67
(Africa Cup of Nations: 11 caps, 2 goals). Olympic: 3 selections. African selection: 3 selections
1965/81 Hafia FC (GUI)
Petit (Little) Sory. This is a name that lit up African football in the 1970s.Small in size, tall in talent, this
former striker is one of the best players in the history of Guinea. Born in 1944, he bears the same name as
his older brother, Ibrahima Sory. So to distinguish the two kids, the entourage will add the adjectives
"small and large" to the patronymic. Coming from a footballing family, the youngest of the Sory brothers
imitates his elder by typing oranges from an early age. This passion for football led him to one of the
greatest African clubs of the 70s, namely the Hafia club of Conakry in 1965. Like some former African
glories, he did not have a professional career, but will still make a name on the continent. Sly as a fox, this
crazy dribbler is with his team the first to win the African Cup of Champions Clubs three times (1972,
1975, 1977). These three titles are also the only ones gleaned by the Hafia on the continental level. Petit
Sory is also the Syli National, the nickname given to the Guinean selection. Recalling the dark history of
"detention" of the national team at Camp Alpha Yaya in Conakry. It would seem that following Syli's
draw (2-2) against Liberia in 1967, President Sékou Touré had it very bad, to the point of locking up Petit
Sory and his team in this military camp in Conakry, for force the players to prepare hard for the second
leg. A detention which is worth its weight since the Syli atomizes the Liberians on the final score of 9
goals to 0, young Sory largely contributed to this victory with a hat-trick. Petit Sory and the golden
generation of Guinean football including Chérif Souleymane (African Golden Ball in 1972), Papa
Camara, Djibril Diarra, and others reign on the continent. On May 20, 1972, this selection led by his little
thumb (1m67) inflicted on Mauritania the heaviest defeat in the history of the country (14 goals to 0).
Four years later, the Guineans finished second in the African Cup of Nations in Ethiopia behind Ahmed
Faras ' Morocco . Thanks to this course, Petit Sory was appointed to the typical team for the competition.
Holder of several titles, his talent will make him the best right winger in the world in 1972 during the
Independence Cup in Brazil bringing together teams from different continents. The African selection was
made up of some of the stars of the moment such as Sadok Sassi , Laurent Pokou or even François
M'Pelé . After ending his career, he came to head an association of former footballers from the Guinea
national team, the Hafia Club and the Horoya. In 1996, Petit Sory and his friends obtained from the
former Guinean President Lansana Conté the integration of more than three hundred former footballers
into the public service. In addition, these classified in a higher hierarchy and go to retirement only at their
request. A real breath of fresh air all thanks to the former glory of Guinean football.
AWARDS
Finalist of the African Cup of Nations in 1976 (Guinea)
Winner of the African Champion Clubs' Cup in 1972, 1975 and 1977 (Hafia FC)
Finalist of the African Cup of Champion Clubs in 1976 and 1978 (Hafia FC)
Guinea champion in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 (Hafia
FC)
PERSONAL AWARDS
African Bronze Ball in 1972
Named to the typical team of the African Cup of Nations tournament in 1976

Horoya Athletic Club

The Horoya Athlétic Club is a Guinean football club founded in 1975 and based in Conakry on the right
bank of the city or southern corniche (area between Lansébounyi, Coléah, Madina, Matam, Bonfi,
Gbessia, Yimbaya and Matoto). The club enjoyed success during the 1970s with the title of champion of
the African Cup winners' Cup in 1978 against NAHD (Hussein-Dey of Algeria.Horoya have long-
standing rivalries with some clubs including Hafia FC and AS Kaloum.
In 2012 , the Horoya was bought by a Guinean businessman Mamadou Antonio Souaré .The club is
playing today at the Stade du 28 Septembre in Conakry .
The Horoya AC was born in 1975 on the ashes of the federal team Conakry III, including in the
administrative division of the time, the 5th and 7th arrondissement. Horoya Athletic Club won, the
African Cup Winners' Cup. inDecember 1978, the Horoya will provide the backbone of the first Guinean
national team to participate in a world football competition. It was in Japan, during the Under-20 Football
World Cup with a generation including Combin, Nfansoumane or Abou Daga, Kinani… under the
leadership of D. Mario Diabaté.
In 1984 , after the military came to power, theApril 3, the State is withdrawing from the direct
management of the clubs now assigned to the three federations of Conakry. The Horoya AC thus becomes
the Conakry 3 team.
From 1985 , Le Horoya provided the framework for the various national teams for a long time. It's the
heyday of Fodé Laye Camara, Cissé Zimako, Lobilo Diallo, Boubacar Diawara, Joe Gallé Diallo,
Ballamodou Condé, Souleymne Oularé, Souaré Mamady Passarella, Abdoul Salam Sow, Hamidou
Camara, Lamine Conté-Junior Toumbou, Lamine Bangoura, under the leadership of Kamal Moukarim,
Diaby, Cheick Dem and subsequently Nfamory Touré.
The Antonio Souaré era
Over the years, with the liberal option and the decomposition of Conakry into 5 municipalities, the idea of
mixed management (municipal and private) of the clubs takes shape. Thus with the Municipality of
Matam , official guardian of the club, the presidents will follow one another from 1985 to 2012 .
In 2011 , businessman Antonio Souaré, owner of the Business Marketing Group communication group
and of the sports betting company Guinea Games, took over as president of the club. In 2016 the club had
since a budget of 5 million dollars.
After several years of failure in qualifying African competitions, in 2017 , the Horoya qualified for the
Confederation Cup group stages where he will stop at this stage of the competition. In 2018 , Horoya
qualified for the first time in its history for the group stages of the CAF Champions League .
The colors of the club are, since its origin, red and white. Red, symbol of the blood of martyrs who fell
for the conquest of independence; white, for purity and hope for a better future.The name Horoya means
freedom in several local languages; in Arabic , Horoya also means Freedom.