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The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced an increase in prize money for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

President of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, Patrice Motsepe announced during his interaction with the media in Rabat, Morocco on Saturday that the winner of the competition will go home with $10m.

DAILY POST recalls that the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire, who won the last edition of the competition went home with $7m.

Runners-up Super Eagles Nigeria were rewarded with $4m.

The AFCON 2025 finals will start in Morocco on Sunday.

Hosts Morocco will take on Comoros in the competition’s opening game.

CAF increases AFCON 2025 prize Money

Power Dynamos head coach, Oswald Mutapa says his side deserved to beat Rivers United in Sunday’s CAF Champions League encounter, DAILY POST reports.

The Zambian side won the matchday four fixture 1-0.

Kondwani Chiboni scored the winning goal for the visitors in the 50th minute.

It was Dynamos’ first-ever win in the group stage of the CAF Champions League.

The win boosted their chances of making it to the knockout round of the competition.

Mutapa praised his players for fighting for the three points.

“We knew it wasn’t going to be an easy game, but we were prepared to fight for victory,” Mutapa said after the game.

“We controlled the game when we had the ball, but the last 15 minutes were more difficult. We are happy with the result.”

Power Dynamos will host Morocco’s RS Berkane in their next game on Saturday, while Rivers United will entertain defending champions, Pyramids FC of Egypt on Sunday.

CAF Champions League: Power Dynamos deserved to beat Rivers United – Mutapa

Former Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has said that Lionel Messi snubbed him at a Ballon d’Or ceremony, which made him understand that their friendship will never be the same again.

He suggested that he and the Argentine will never be in a cordial relationship again following the manner in which the player left on his own in 2021.

Messi left his boyhood club, Barça to join Paris Saint-Germain and later Inter Miami in the USA Major League Soccer.

Laporta said he met Messi in person after Messi left Barcelona, and they met at the Ballon d’Or ceremony two years later in 2023.

He said to Catalunya Radio that the player made him realize they did not need to greet each other anymore, showing that he still held a grudge about how he left the Nou Camp.

“The relationship with Messi isn’t the same as before. There was also a situation at the Ballon d’Or ceremony where I went to say hello to him, and he thought we shouldn’t shake hands. Since then, there has been some rapprochement, and hopefully, this will continue in the future. The relationship is strained, but he’s a Barcelona legend”, he said via GOAL.

“The relationship is tense, but he’s a Barcelona legend.”

In the summer of 2021, Lionel Messi was about to sign a new contract with his childhood club when the deal was canceled, and he had to leave the team.

The club faced big money problems and could not afford to keep the legend on their roster.

Two years later, Messi wanted to come back to the club after getting some promises from them, but the transfer did not happen, and he ended up joining Inter Miami instead.

Barcelona: ‘He refused to greet me’ – Laporta says his relationship with Messi strained