After 29 Years, Kingpin of African Soccer Is Abruptly Shown the Door
Cameroon’s victorious players were still dancing on the field at the Stade de l’Amitié in Libreville, Gabon, when Issa Hayatou — African soccer’s apparently unassailable kingpin — decided he deserved a moment of triumph, too. He was present, at the final of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, to hand out medals to the winners and to offer a…
