Morocco Coach Regragui Denies Racism Allegations After AFCON Match Incident

The incident sparked a flood of comments on social media. At the end of the match, Walid Regragui and Sébastien Desabre assured that the matter was closed. But Chancel Mbemba’s remarks prove the contrary. "I respect the coach who is a great man. The television cut the videos, but I have them. I don’t need to release them. I keep my silence, it’s better, that’s how I am. Everyone knows me, I respect everyone, I don’t need to pull someone down but God’s justice is there. When I play football I play normally, I’m not a super player. That word he said, it’s the coach himself who will say it. He himself will speak," the Congolese international said.

In response to these vague and ambiguous remarks, Walid Regragui wanted to clarify the situation. "I told Desabre: ’Bring him back to me, he’s freaking out, he’s talking nonsense.’ I didn’t like that, because he’s insinuating a lot of things. So if he has images other than those we see on television, let him bring them out, with pleasure. And he’ll see exactly what happened. And here’s what happened... Before I went to shake his hand, he attacked us, me and my assistant, on the touchline before the end of the match, he spoke badly to us. And Desabre knows it. And at the end, despite that, I went to shake his hand to tell him too: ’But why are you talking to me like that?’ And there, he looks elsewhere, like ’I’m not shaking your hand’. I held his hand, you can see it in the images, and he started yelling in all directions," explained the Moroccan coach to the daily L’Équipe.

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