the chilling testimony of Gernot Rohr on the match in Libya

Libya is still in the news. A month after the deplorable treatment suffered by Nigeria's players, the Libyans gave an even more dramatic welcome to Benin this Monday, as part of the qualifiers for the 2025 African Cup of Nations. Gernot Rohr and his players experienced an eventful post-match marked by attacks on supporters and Libyan police officers. The selector of Cheetahsqualified for the next CAN in Morocco, returned to this ordeal to Canal+ Sport Africa.

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« The little problems arrived after the match, to our surprise. With bottles being thrown, one of my assistants being chased by people who wanted to hit him in the tunnel. We locked ourselves in the locker room for an hour and a half and when we came out, there were some very unfortunate events that we shouldn't see in football. And there, we saw that it is a country where there is not yet security, since even the police beat us. They took out batons to beat us. We have a few injuries… It's really regrettable. The match itself went well, but after the match it was disastrous. The government of Benin, which we thank, made a plane available to us so as not to let us leave one by one in various directions, in Europe or elsewhere. We waited all night, around ten hours before the match, for him to have authorization to fly over Mali and Burkina Faso. After that, we waited 10 hours all night, the players didn't sleep… But we returned to Cotonou », explained the coach of German origin.