Africa Cup of Nations chaos as Morocco star chases opponent and brawl breaks out in tunnel before ace racially abused | 45S266G | 2024-01-27 09:08:01
The two African nations drew 1-1 in an ill-tempered match in the Ivory Coast after Congolese ace Silas
CONGO'S ex-Prem star Chancel Mbemba was racially abused on social media after a row with Morocco's supervisor Walid Regragui sparked an enormous brawl in their Afcon clash.
The two African nations drew 1-1 in an ill-tempered match in the Ivory Coast after Congolese ace Silas cancelled out Achraf Hakimi's early opener.
However a brawl followed at full-time when Mbemba and Regragui collided following an indignant change at Afcon.
Footage confirmed members of each groups pushing one another after the ultimate whistle.
In response to AP, the Moroccan supervisor sought ex-Newcastle ace Mbemba – who performed for the Toon between 2015 and 2018 – when the centre-back seemed to be praying on his knees.
The Marseille star took the 48-year-old tactician's hand and clapped him on the again in what seemed to be a a friendly change.
But Regragui stored hold of the 29-year-old's hand and carried on talking to him.
The Congo international angrily pulled his hand away and gestured in the direction of the video referee before gamers from each side jumped in.
But that wasn't the top of it because the fracas continued when the defender made his means down the tunnel.
Morocco star Youssef En-Nesyri angrily ran in the direction of Mbemba and team-mate Yassine Bounou tied to hold him again.
Gamers from each teams chased after En-Nesyri to ensure issues didn't get out of hand.
After the game, Mbemba was racially abused on Instagram as yobs replied to his newest posts with monkey and gorilla emojis and added some vile statements.
The Congo captain decided towards addressing the complete version of events but praised Regragui as he referred to as him a "great man".
Mbemba stated: "I respect the coach who is a superb man. The TV minimize the videos, but I have them. I don't have to swing them.
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"I hold my silence, it's higher, that's how I am. Everyone is aware of me, I respect everybody, I don't have to shoot anybody but God's justice is there."
Regragui, who led Morocco to a historic fourth-place end at the 2022 World Cup and made them the primary ever African aspect to succeed in the semi-finals, provided his model of occasions.
The previous Toulouse player informed L'Equipe: "I stated to [Congo manager Sebastien] Desabre: 'Convey him back to me, he's going loopy, he's speaking nonsense'. I didn't like it because it insinuates a whole lot of issues.
"So if he has photographs aside from what we see on tv, let him take them out, with pleasure. And he'll see exactly what happened.
"And that's what occurred… Before I went to shake his hand, he took me and my assistant to process on the sidelines earlier than the top of the sport, he spoke badly to us. And Desabre knows it."
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