Sport Weekly: ‘A litmus test’ as the African Football League kicks off
1 year, 2 months ago

Sport Weekly: ‘A litmus test’ as the African Football League kicks off

Al Jazeera  

Many are viewing Africa’s newest club competition with interest – for its impact on the African game, and beyond. Until last week, the South African champions Mamelodi Sundowns were even banned from taking part by their country’s football federation, who cited fixture congestion. “The AFL is a titanic battle of strength versus strength between the giants of African football,” CAF said this week, ahead of the tournament opener in Tanzania’s capital where Simba SC face Egypt’s Al Ahly, the reigning African champions. As Clint Roper, general manager of South Africa’s Soccer-Laduma publication, told Al Jazeera on the AFL: “Is this not a litmus test to show the European teams who wanted to form a breakaway league that this kind of thing can be done via a governing body and still be very lucrative?” Elsewhere this week:

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