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A player of RS Berkane, wearing a team jersey showing a red map with the green star of Morocco on the disputed Western Sahara territory, walks on the pitch during the CAF Super Cup 2022 soccer match, in Rabat, Morocco, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. A soccer politics dispute between Algeria and Morocco over a map of disputed Western Sahara territory on a team jersey will go to a full appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Soccer jersey dispute between Algeria and Morocco clubs over Western Sahara goes to sports court

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe speaks during a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. When World Cup qualifying starts in Africa on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, Morocco will be a hub of soccer action a year after the national team's historic run to becoming the continent’s first semifinalist. Seven teams will play “home” games in Morocco over the next week, but Africa’s standout team will not be among them. Morocco’s first home game in qualifying for the 2026 tournament is in June. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

World Cup qualifying in Africa starts with 7 teams at ‘home’ in Morocco during stadium upgrade push

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Ban of African stadiums puts World Cup qualifiers in doubt

By PETER KANJERE - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 17, 2018, former US President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Patrice Motsepe, as he arrives at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, to deliver the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture. The election to lead African soccer is seeming to be dominated by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who supports South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe to win the top job in a ballot next week. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, FILE)

Billionaire Motsepe elected president of African soccer

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FILE - In this Tuesday March 3, 2020 file photo, FIFA President Gianni Infantino addresses a meeting of European soccer leaders at the congress of the UEFA governing body in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The election to lead African soccer is seeming to be dominated by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who supports South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe to win the top job in a ballot next week. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

FIFA brokers deal to decide next African soccer president

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 17, 2018, former US President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Patrice Motsepe, as he arrives at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, to deliver the 16th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture. The election to lead African soccer is seeming to be dominated by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who supports South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe to win the top job in a ballot next week. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, FILE)

FIFA tours Africa, aims to hold sway in soccer election

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FIFA probes African soccer leader, bars him from election

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday March 16, 2017 file photo, new president of the African soccer confederation Ahmad of Madagascar, speaks at a press conference after being chosen at the general assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. On Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 FIFA banned the president of African soccer’s governing body, Ahmad Ahmad, for five years for financial misconduct. (AP Photo/File)

African soccer president Ahmad banned for 5 years by FIFA

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2013 file photo, British entrepreneur Richard Branson, left, speaks to South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, centre, and his wife Precious Makgosi Moloi, right, before the funeral service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Qunu, South Africa. South African businessman Patrice Motsepe entered the race to be president of the African soccer confederation on Monday Nov. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Felix Dlangamandla, Pool, File)

South African businessman Motsepe to stand for CAF president

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

African soccer president seeks re-election amid allegations

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Next year’s African Cup of Nations postponed to 2022

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 file photo, new president of the African soccer confederation Ahmad speaks at a press conference in Marrakesh, Morocco. Financial wrongdoing across African soccer has been unearthed in a confidential audit of the continent’s governing body that raises concerns about the legitimacy of millions of dollars of payments to executives and national associations. The report covers the period 2015-2019 and the presidencies of Issa Hayatou and successor Ahmad, who remains in power. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Top official resigns at troubled African soccer body CAF

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 file photo, new president of the African soccer confederation Ahmad speaks at a press conference in Marrakesh, Morocco. Financial wrongdoing across African soccer has been unearthed in a confidential audit of the continent’s governing body that raises concerns about the legitimacy of millions of dollars of payments to executives and national associations. The report covers the period 2015-2019 and the presidencies of Issa Hayatou and successor Ahmad, who remains in power. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

Financial irregularities in African soccer exposed by audit

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura meets with Spain's Sports Minister Ínigo Mendez de Vigo in Madrid, Spain. FIFA's six months in control of African soccer appeared to end when Fatma Samoura's six-month spell in temporary charge of the continent's governing body was not extended on Sunday Feb. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

FIFA declares Samoura’s cleanup of African soccer complete

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 16, 2017 file photo, FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura talks to media at the St. Petersburg Stadium in Russia. In a letter sent Monday Aug. 12, 2019, to national soccer associations, Samoura, was supposed to delegate her functions to avoid conflict of interests while she conducted a six-month role as FIFA General Delegate for Africa, but she is now seeking approval from African soccer nations for FIFA to take control of the sale of television rights for Africa’s World Cup qualifiers. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

2 jobs put FIFA’s Samoura in conflict on African TV rights

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Esperance declared African club champion after VAR farce

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 file photo, Newly appointed president of the African soccer confederation Ahmad of Madagascar, attends the general assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Sport's highest court will rule this month on how to resolve the chaotic African Champions League final. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says it set a July 31, 2019 deadline for a final decision after both clubs appealed to be awarded the title. The second-leg game between Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and Esperance of Tunisia on May 31 was annulled in a dispute provoked by a video review failure. The controversy is part of a wider crisis for CAF and its president, Ahmad of Madagascar, who has been accused of misconduct by senior administrators who were fired in recent weeks and have filed complaints to FIFA's ethics committee. (AP Photo, File)

Infantino rejects Blatter’s criticism of African cleanup

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura meets with Spain's Sports Minister Ínigo Mendez de Vigo in Madrid, Spain. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has asked his deputies to approve appointing secretary general Fatma Samoura to a temporary role to clean up African soccer. Samoura would become FIFA General Delegate for Africa for an initial six months from August 2019 as part of an urgent audit of the Confederation of African Football on finances. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Rift grows over FIFA placing Samoura in Africa clean-up role

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 2, 2018, photo, Confederation of African Football president Ahmad Ahmad of Madagascar, right, and FIFA president Gianni Infantino attend the opening of the Confederation of African Football general assembly in Casablanca, Morocco. A second member of the Confederation of African Football’s ruling executive committee has called for an urgent meeting, this time to restore order after sharp divisions were exposed at the top of the governing body. Isha Johansen of Sierra Leone wrote to her executive committee colleagues on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, to ask that they meet to stop the situation “spiraling out of control.”(AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

African soccer official wants meeting over leaked letters

By ANDREW JACKSON ORYADA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 file photo, new president of the African soccer confederation Ahmad of Madagascar speaks at a press conference after being chosen at the general assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Musa Bility, a Liberian member of the Confederation of African Football executive committee, has quit two other senior positions in a protest against Ahmad taking the governing in the “wrong direction” two years into his presidency. (AP Photo/File)

African soccer official wants meeting to discuss president

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press