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Two Semi-Finals, One Ballot: How a Saturday in Pretoria and Berkane Bends the Road to 2030
Mamelodi Sundowns host Esperance at a sold-out Loftus on Saturday. In Berkane, two Moroccan clubs play the other semi-final. In between, CAF president Patrice Motsepe is still explaining why a 1-0 Senegal AFCON final became a 3-0 Morocco trophy on a desk in Cairo. The football is real. The politics behind it are the scaffolding for a 2030 World Cup nobody wants to admit has already started.
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