Idrissa Gueye Offers to Return Medals to Morocco to Ease CAN 2025 Tensions with Senegal

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Following Everton’s commanding 3-0 victory against Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday, Senegal’s captain, Idrissa Gueye, addressed the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) contentious decision to award the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations to Morocco. Despite firmly believing that he and the ‘Lions of Teranga’ remain the rightful African champions, the former Paris Saint-Germain midfielder expressed a willingness to ‘return the medals’ to Morocco as a gesture to alleviate rising tensions and move forward from the controversy.