Saturday, November 01, 2014

1-1 GAME-TWO HOME DRAW ENABLES ES SETIF TO WIN CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CROWN ON AWAY GOALS

At Blida, Algeria:

Sofiane Younes scored in the 50th minute on Saturday to help ES Setif gain a 1-1 CAF Champions League Final game-two home draw with AS Vita Club at home and enabled the Algerian club to win the African club title on away goals with the aggregate score at 3-3.

ES Setif will travel to neighboring Morocco for next month's FIFA Club World Cup.

That tournament will start on December 10.

The opening match will take place on December 10 at Rabat as Moghreb Tetouan, who won the title in the Mococcan top flight in 2014 taking on Auckland City from New Zealand (winners of the 2013-14 OFC Champions League title).

The winner of the Moghreb Tetouan-Auckland City match will take on newly crowned African continental champs ES Setif in a quarterfinal contest on December 13 while Cruz Azul (who won last season's CONCACAF Champions League crown) will battle the Western Sydney Wanderers, who on Saturday took the AFC Champions League title in the other quarterfinal on that same day.  Both games will be played at Rabat.

Semifinal Round:

The winner of the Cruz Azul-Western Sydney match will battle 10-time European continental champs Real Madrid on December 16 at Marrakesh.

Also at Marrakeah, the winner of the Setif-opening match survivor contest will battle Argentina's San Lorenzo, the South American champs (Copa Libertadores) on December 17.

The final will take place in Marrakesh on December 20.

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