Édouard Mendy: ‘Winning Afcon was 10 times better than the Champions League’ | Senegal football team
By: Ed Aarons | Published: 2026-09-22 11:00:53 | Source: www.theguardian.com
“I had to stay patient and try to have a cool head because everywhere else there was fire,” Édouard Mendy remembers. In the cauldron of the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat, the Senegal goalkeeper was about to face a penalty against the hosts, Morocco, in stoppage time of the Africa Cup of Nations final.
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Mendy had just been shown a yellow card after a 17-minute delay where he and most…
