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Blessed with better infrastructure and resources, the north African football clubs have dominated the African Champions League – the main football tournament interclub disputed since 1964. For anyone who is following Champions League in Africa, it was not a surprise to see three clubs from North african region in the semi-final this year – the second leg is being disputed this weekend: TP Mazembe (Congo) x Kabylie (Algeria) and Esperance (Tunisia) x Al-Ahly (Egypt).
In the last 26 editions, the teams from north of Africa – countries like Algeria, Marocco, Tunisia and Egypt – have won 20 times. Average of 77%. I talked yesterday about it with brazilian coach Jose Fernandes, who has worked in countries from that region like Lybia and Egypt.
“The teams from Black Africa (Sub-Saharan region) suffer from constant sale of their players, who go to play in Europe and Asia, emptying their national football championships. northern clubs have a better system in place and sell fewer players, forming stronger teams” said.
Political division: North africa and Sub-Saharan region
Additioning to the observations of coach Fernandes, we also show that North african teams are able by organizing tactics despite the handicap of being – on average – more frail and less swift than sub-saharan africans.
In spite of all, the current champion of african Champions League is TP Mazembe, ‘The powerful’ from Lubumbashi city, in Democratic Republic of Congo. The title of the Crows gave survival to football clubs from Black Africa and they want to retain the most coveted trophy from Africa.
Champions League titles from North african clubs: 24
Champions League titles from Sub-Saharan African: 21
