The 2014 Fifa Club World Cup currently on in Morocco has received very little to zero coverage in most of Africa, including South Africa. I don't know about other places on the continent, but as far as South Africa is concerned the media boycott has nothing to do with Morocco's late withdrawal as hosts of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nation. Knowing the attitude of my country's media and the football public at large, this world show on home continent was destined to be a non-starter as was the case last years and the years before. One would have thought that since we were competing with Morocco for the 2013 and 2014 hosting rights, South Africa would take interest to see how we could have done things better, compared with what's transpiring in Morocco right now. By the look of things, all is going well in Morocco and the games are well supported. The first semifinal on Tuesday, when Real Madrid beat Cruz Azul of Mexico 4-0 in Marrakech, 34,862 fans thronged the stadiu
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