Marchisio Boateng
The African Cup of Nations trophy is gone missing, the Egypt Football Asssociation has confirmed.
The which was given to the Egypt national team permanently after they won the trophy three times in a row has been lost with a former member of the federation claiming that the trophy was destroyed in a fire at the Football Association Headquarters in Cairo in 2013.
“The EFA started looking for some trophies as they aim to put them in a notable museum inside the EFA,” Shobier said.
“However, the EFA was surprised to find that the AFCON trophy was lost and decided to open an investigation.
“They were informed by an employee inside the association that it was held by former Egypt captain Ahmed Hassan who refuted this claim. Nobody knows where is the trophy at the time being.”
