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·18 March 2026

📸 Morocco declared Africa Cup of Nations winners: Twitter loses its mind 😳

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We lived through this legendary moment.

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This Tuesday evening, an earthquake shook the world of football! 

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Two months after the Africa Cup of Nations final, won 1-0 by Senegal against Morocco, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released a statement announcing that its appeals committee has decided to strip the Lions of Teranga of their African champion title, declaring them "forfeit" after they left the field for more than ten minutes following a penalty awarded to Morocco in the dying moments of the match, and to grant the Moroccan team a 3-0 victory by default.

For now, the AFCON title thus returns to Morocco!

An absurd and historic situation that made Twitter explode.

A selection of the best reactions to this sequence that will go down in history:

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

📸 ABDEL MAJID BZIOUAT

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