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Daily Times July 12, 2021 COTONOU: Moroccan club Raja Casablanca survived a second-half battering from Algerian rivals JS Kabylie with 10 men to win the CAF Confederation Cup final 2-1 in Benin’s economic capital Cotonou on Saturday. In a tale of two halves at the Stade de l’Amitie the Casablanca outfit raced into a two-goal lead within 14 minutes through goals from star attackers Soufiane Rahimi and Ben Malango. But Kabylie pulled one goal in the first minute of the second half through Zakaria Boulahia and took control when Omar Arjoune was shown a straight red card on 63 minutes. A Kaby...

Morocco Raja Club Athletic beat Algerian side JS Kabilye 2-1 to win the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Cup in Cotonou, Benin, on Saturday. Soufiane Rahimi and Ben Malango scored for Raja within the first quarter of an hour of the game. Kabilye came back stronger in the second half with Mohamed Zakaria Boulahia halving the deficit just moments into the second half. Raja were reduced to 10 men in the 62nd minute when Omar Arjoune was sent off for a high boot but managed to ensure the victory and their second Confederation Cup title. Moroccan King Mohammed VI congratulated the team on t...

Zniti heroics sends Raja to TotalEnergies Confederation Cup Final Anas Zniti saved a penalty in sudden death as Raja Club Athletic beat last year’s finalists Pyramids 5-4 on post match spot-kicks on Sunday to sail to the final of the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup. Zniti’s trailing foot stuck out to block Hamdi Mohamed’s penalty as the Moroccan side progressed to the final, where they will face off with Algerian outfit JS Kabilye. The game was forced to penalties after a second successive barren stalemate in Casablanca, the two sides having also played to a 0-0...

Raja host Pyramids from Egypt in the second leg of a semi-final having had much the better of a goalless first encounter in Cairo last weekend.

According to Broos, his decision was guided by a former Orlando Pirates player, Helman Mkhalele, who is Bafana assistant coach. “I was getting a lot of information in the last few days, I talked with my assistant and I made a list, I didn’t look at who was captain,” said Broos. That, together with the fact that the Soweto-born Hlatshwayo will miss out on an international game on his own home pitch in Orlando would have hurt the player further. Things got worse however for Hlatshwayo on Sunday in the disastrous 4-0 defeat to Raja Casablanca which ended Bucs' hopes of continental glory in...