The President of the African Football Confederation (CAF), Patrice Motsepe, spoke in a statement released on Sunday, June 20. The leader confirmed that a project to create an African Super League was being considered. And he intends to rely on the failure of the European project so as not to make mistakes.
Sunday, June 20, 2021, Patrice Motsepe celebrated its 100 days at the helm of CAF. The South African, who officially succeeded Ahmad Ahmad on March 12, revealed his intentions on this occasion through a press release entitled “Make CAF more competitive and self-sufficient”.
The former businessman spoke about several reflections that have been made since his arrival at the CAF presidency. Patrice Motsepe met with a number of managers and sponsors and lamented that they had “a mediocre or even negative view of CAF”. These impressions, confirmed by a report prepared by the auditing firm Price Waterhouse Coopers, called on the institution to “implement” certain recommendations and “to ensure that inappropriate transactions, irregular and opposite practices” do not reproduce “.
“Learn from the failure of the big European clubs”
After describing a whole arsenal of actions to be taken or possible actions, Patrice Motsepe broke another topic that arouses much discussion on the continent. If he had been very discreet about this at the time of his election, the CAF president is really open to one Super League in Africa.
“We are currently investigating how appropriate it is to create one African Super League and discussions in this regard have already taken place, he said in his press release.
The same project, which was brutally launched in Europe by 12 of the biggest clubs in the world, caused a great deal of controversy and led to the said project its implosion within a few hours. This failure does not seem to worry CAF. On the contrary, it will even serve as an example for him not to follow. “We followed attempts from some major European clubs to set up such a competition and will try to learn from their failure “, assures Patrice Motsepe.
South Africa intends to “continue to visit member associations to better understand their interests and expose them to CAFs”. The project for an African super league is well under way. It remains to be seen if he will have the opportunity to go to the end.
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