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Atlas Lions roar ends Taifa Stars cup dream

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Morocco and Tanzania players fight for the ball during their CHAN 2024 match at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam on August 22, 2025. [Kipsanga Joseph, Standard]

The Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam was already a theater of noise long before hosts Taifa Stars and Morocco's Atlas Lions quarter finals clash on Saturday.

Thousands of Tanzanian fans draped in green and yellow were huddled over their phones following the penalty shootout between Kenya and Madagascar in the earlier quarter-final.

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