Quand mille ans de fraternité défient cent minutes de football : Maroc et Sénégal, unis par l’histoire et la raison
The relationship between Morocco and Senegal is neither circumstantial nor a passing emotion. It is rooted in a long, rich, and fraternal history, forged well before the emergence of modern borders, even before football became a universal language. These ties are not merely diplomatic or institutional: they are spiritual, human, cultural, and profoundly African.
For over a thousand years, the Moroccan and Senegalese people have recognized, respected, and interacted with one another. Trans-Saharan caravan routes have long connected the Maghreb to sub-Saharan Africa, circulating not only goods but also ideas, knowledge, values, and a worldview founded on solidarity and dignity. Religious brotherhoods, intellectual exchanges, peaceful migrations, and human alliances have forged a bond that neither time nor political upheavals have ever managed to erase.
Morocco and Senegal share a common understanding of hospitality, a shared commitment to social peace, respect for others, and moderation. They also share a history of resistance, faith, and the pursuit of stability on a continent too often scarred by division. This fraternity is not a diplomatic formula: it is lived, felt, and embodied every day by thousands of families, students, workers, and believers who live, study, or pray on both sides of the border.
Faced with such historical depth, how can we accept that one hundred minutes of football—however intense, passionate, and sometimes heated—could symbolically threaten bonds forged over a thousand years? Sport, by its very nature, is a school of emotions, but it must never become a breeding ground for resentment. Football certainly stirs passions, but it cannot legitimize invective, enduring anger, or moral rupture between brotherly peoples.
The recent Africa Cup of Nations final, however tense it may have been, must be put into perspective: that of a sporting event, ephemeral, subject to human decisions and the unpredictable nature of the game. It should not be interpreted as a rift in national identity. To conflate sporting rivalry with national hostility would be a grave, unjust, and dangerous error for the collective African conscience.
Moroccans and Senegalese are not adversaries: they are brothers. Brothers who can compete fairly on the field, but who, once the match is over, find themselves united in the same ideal of peace, respect, and moral integrity. Wisdom dictates distinguishing between the moment and the long term, between emotion and reason, between fervor and discernment.
In these times of heightened tensions, it is up to women and men who cherish peace, responsibility, and clear thinking to raise their voices, not to incite anger, but to remind us of what is essential. Calm is not a weakness; it is a sign of maturity. Appeasement is not a surrender; it is an act of intellectual and moral courage.
Africa does not need further divisions. It needs people capable of transforming their emotions into constructive energy, their rivalries into healthy competition, and their differences into shared wealth. Morocco and Senegal, strengthened by their shared history, have a moral duty to set an example.
Let passions subside. Let reason prevail. Let football return to what it should be: a game, a spectacle, a moment of unity; never a pretext for discord. The age-old ties between Morocco and Senegal are stronger than any score. They will survive, as they always have, passing storms, because they are founded on what history produces as its most enduring: brotherhood between peoples.
Commentaires (6)
Que la paix de Dieu nous visite et remplisse tous et chacun. Amiin !
Pour moi le sport compétitif a perdu sa valeur depuis qu'il est devenu le champion du jeux de hasard.
Le coach de l'équipe du Sénégal doit être remplacé à cause de sa nature égocentrique.
Les autres pays maghrébins sont jaloux du Maroc à cause de son avancé sur eux dans tous, toutes les domaines
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