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TP Mazembe pull off Champions League shock as search for fanfare continues | Moving the Goalposts

Congolese club claimed glory in Africa’s premier women’s club competition but tournament struggled for crowdsThis certainly wasn’t on my bingo card. Coming into the fourth edition of the CAF Women’s Champions League, expectations were that the continental title would be retained by Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa or regained by the Moroccan hosts, Asfar Rabat. Between them they had won all three previous editions of Africa’s premier women’s club competition. Instead, it was TP Mazembe, a Congolese club only founded four years ago, who claimed continental glory with a 1-0 win in El Jadida.With Asfar Rabat having already beaten Mazembe 3-1 in the group stage, the 15,000 partisan Moroccan fans would have been expecting a procession but Marlène Kasaj’s 10th-minute penalty, awarded after V...

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