His words sparked an uproar. Roger Milla, Cameroonian football legend, apologized today.
«Morocco or Egypt … it’s always the Maghreb people who screw up! They are here, with us, we have accepted them (…)“. These words, not exhaustive, are those of Roger Milla a few days ago in an interview and, obviously, they had created a huge controversy as well as a very bad publicity which would have been well without Cameroon, already plagued by many criticisms. that surround the African Cup of Nations that it is organizing.
The former Indomitable Lions striker made a point of clarifying his remarks, recalling that he was responding to a question from a journalist who explained to him that Morocco and Egypt (but also Burkina Faso) had notably voted in favor of a postponement of CAN2022 (in reality CAN 2021 postponed to 2022): “Moroccans and Moroccans are my sisters and brothers. We must not forget that I am very often in Morocco. I didn’t think there was going to be a controversy and I didn’t want there to be one. I simply said that we are all African countries and that if a country organizes a CAN, Morocco should support it. That’s all. I want to apologize if people misunderstood. In no case can I criticize an African country.»
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