HIBAPRESS – Abdellatif Baraka
In a shocking scene that does not befit African football or the spirit of good neighborliness, the final match between Morocco and Senegal at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium turned into a scene of chaos, following acts of rioting and vandalism of public property, and assaults that resulted in serious injuries among the special and public security forces, in behavior described as aggressive and irresponsible by Senegalese fans.
Amidst this chaos, Mauritanian voices came out to speak the truth in a time of silence, praising Morocco's role and favor to its neighbors, and confirming that the Kingdom has always shared its goodness and experiences without grudges or narrow calculations, far from the game of football, a reality that no sane person denies inside or outside the continent. The most strange thing is that the one who betrayed good hospitality was not only the public, but even parties within the Senegalese national team and its union, who contributed to fueling the situation instead of calming it, although the Senegalese coach himself was a student in Morocco, and although the Senegalese team stayed for a whole month in Tangier in Moroccan hospitality and popular and official support, they tried to undermine the final football wedding. Instead of admitting the loss with a sporting spirit, some chose to cast doubt on the transfer, accommodation and arbitration, and justify vandalism and assault, in a direct insult to the image of Senegal before it was an insult to Morocco, which is going in the direction that the Senegalese Football Association was afflicted by a touch of demonization of the neighbor Algeria and revealed to the world that betrayal has no homeland or religion. What happened does not affect the real Senegalese and their well-known morals, but there are infiltrating elements inside the country trying to shake confidence, and this is not new, but this devil has penetrated continents and countries and tried to question the decades, but the drowning of the Kingdom of Morocco and its depth in history nullified this magic, and the sorcerer did not succeed despite spending billions of his people's money on mercenaries. The only mistake that the Moroccans committed, people and state, is that they did not imagine that their guests might be on time with chaos instead of fair competition, and that good intentions would be met with ingratitude instead of gratitude. The message of the Mauritanians was clear, Morocco has never spared its neighbors, but what happened in Rabat brought to mind a painful saying, beware of the evil of those to whom you have done good. What was issued by some Senegalese players, their fans, and even their influencers on social media, cannot be justified by sport or morals, and it is a behavior that calls for a frank apology and deep review before African football turns into a field for settling grudges instead of bringing peoples together. So you cannot enjoy a title and you know exactly that it is not your right, all the pictures presented to you about the mistakes, and the whole world tells you that you stole the title and that you do not deserve it, the Senegalese Football Association issued three statements in record time, and what happened at the high-speed train station was a reception for the Senegalese public with its players and not Moroccans, but the truth was discovered after collecting all the pictures in one scene.
