African club football’s great showpiece, the Champions League final, rolls into Cairo this weekend with an air of distraction.
Its finalists are obliged to glance back over their shoulders because, this time last year, the same Al Ahly and Wydad of Casablanca were contesting the same prize.
As standard-bearers in the competition, they also look forward to a deluxe version of the competition, the proposed African Super League, a project long in the planning and seemingly close to actual launch.
Exactly what Africa’s Super League will look like is not yet clarified but a miniature, pilot form of it may take place this autumn.
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