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Inventing the Pyramids

Inventing the Pyramids

Last week, the African Champions League was won by Pyramids, an Egyptian club effectively invented out of spite by a former bodyguard of Mohammed Bin Salman

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A day after the Champions League final, Pyramids FC of Egypt faced Mamelodi Sundowns in the second leg of the African Champions League final. The first leg, in Pretoria, had finished 1-1. Midway through the first half of the second leg in Cairo, the DR Congo striker Fiston Mayele put Pyramids ahead with a smart first-time strike into the bottom corner. …

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