Reports: Soccer City stadium in South Africa hosts Esperance and Wanderers final

World football

Morocco's Soccer City is hosting the upcoming match between Espérance and Casablanca in the final of the African Champions League, Moroccan press reports said.

Many Arab countries have refused to host the match between Al-Turji and Ould Oval in light of the intense sensitivity between the two teams, according to the newspaper "Al-Mustakheb", to be settled at the Soccer City Stadium, which hosted the opening and closing games of the 2010 World Cup.

The African Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to return the Tunisian match and the Moroccan bid in the final of the African Champions League in a neutral stadium due to lack of safety and fair play at Rades stadium.

The CAF emergency committee held a meeting last week in the French capital Paris to discuss the events of the match between Esperance and Al-Wadad on the sidelines of the FIFA General Assembly.

Tunisia's Al-Turji was crowned champion of the African Champions League for the second time in a row after a controversial arbitration scandal. Morocco's Wydad Casablanca refused to complete the match before the match was decided.

The match between Al-Turji and Al-Wadad at Radis Stadium was stopped in the 61st minute to ask Wydad players to return to video technology to explore the validity of the goal scored by Moroccan star Walid Al-Karti and cancel the referee for infiltration when the result was 1-0 for Al-Turji.

About 75 minutes into the game, Jamaican referee Bacari Gasama fired the final whistle as Wydad was withdrawn.

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