Has the CAN kept all its promises?
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Senegal players win the 33rd edition of the African Cup of Nations.
On February 6, 2022, in the Olembé stadium in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
© CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
By: Alexandra Cagnard Follow
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Senegal won the African Cup of Nations on February 6, 2022 for the first time in its history.
The Teranga Lions won the final after a penalty shootout against Egypt.
Beyond this coronation, has this CAN kept all its promises?
Olivier Pron, journalist in the sports department of RFI returns from Cameroon and tells.
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This new
Witnesses news
echoes the
10th episode
in which
Olivier Pron, took stock a month before the start of the competition.
Cameroonians who had not hosted the CAN for 50 years were impatient.
Olivier also gave his prediction for the victory.
He was not mistaken much and in this new episode, he is pleased with the victory of Senegal: “
We are not a supporter when we comment, but we have the right to be a supporter in our hearts.
Senegal had never won anything on the continent, whether among young people or adults.
This anomaly is fixed
.
The CAN has not escaped the health measures linked to the Covid-19 epidemic.
With, at the start of the competition, “
measures too strict
” for the country, says Olivier, where only 5 to 6% of the population is vaccinated.
To enter the stages, you had to be both vaccinated and have a negative PCR test.
“
Afterwards
, he continues,
they had the good idea to make two important decisions.
Lighten sanitary measures, and decide that schools and administrations would close every day at 1 p.m.
This allowed people to be able to come and watch the matches
.”
Olivier Pron also returns to the drama which bereaved this CAN.
A stampede, on January 24, 2022, in front of one of the entrances to the Olembé stadium in Yaoundé which left eight dead.
"
It's still very present in me.
You don't come to a football stadium to comment on this kind of thing.
This situation had to be dealt with.
It happened a little before the hymns.
It's a combination of circumstances, it can happen everywhere else and it happened everywhere else, but it's a bad memory
.
Overall concludes Olivier, this edition has kept its promises: "
It was a great AFCON and it's good that the Cameroonians went to the semi-finals and that they saved third place
".
See you next year for the 34th African Cup of Nations in Côte d'Ivoire.
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