CAF Champions League hits critical mass [Football Planet]

On this episode of the Football Planet: The first leg of the 2017 CAF Champions League final was played on Saturday and it was visiting Moroccans Wydad Casablanca who frustrated wasteful home side Al Ahly to a 1-1 draw at the Borg El Arab Stadium in Egypt.

England are the World U17 Champions after they finished off a dominant display and coming from behind to beat Spain 5-2 in a match played in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata.

We’ll also be taking a preview of the state of affairs in East Africa where the annual regional tournament CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup will be kicking off in late November.

South African-based pay television giant SuperSport pulled the plug on airing Kenyan, Nigerian and Ghana Premier league matches in 2016 AND 2017 a move that threw a cat among the pigeons as far as the future of domestic club football in Africa is concerned. Kenyan Premier League CEO Jack Ogunda gave Jeff Kinyanjui in Nairobi some comments on that.

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