DOHA (Qatar): Mohamed Sherif and Salah Mohsen scored as Egypt’s Al Ahly beat Renaissance Berkane of Morocco to win their seventh CAF Super Cup here on Friday night.
Success for Ahly ended a run of upsets in the Super Cup with Champions League title-holders Esperance of Tunisia losing the 2019 and 2020 matches, also in Qatar.
South Africa-born Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane has now won four CAF competitions, one less than the most successful African, Tunisian Faouzi Benzarti.
The annual match between the CAF Champions League and second-tier CAF Confederation Cup winners was watched by a crowd limited to 7,000 at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium because of coronavirus protocols.
Ahly’s captain and goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy expressed his happiness at the team’s triumph.
“We achieved an wonferful victory, as winning the championship came in very difficult circumstances, especially since we have been in a camp that has been going on for 13 days. After we went to South Africa to play the Sun Downs match in the Champions League and from there to Qatar to face Berkane,” he said.
