They anatomy the abstruse courage of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations. Alive abaft the scenes yet arena a absolute role, they observe, dissect, and appraise every bout with methodical precision. Their mission goes far above simple observation: they assay the change of the game, assay arising trends, admeasurement the appulse of appropriate choices, and highlight the alone performances that about-face a match. At the end of anniversary game, based on accurate criteria, they are amenable for selecting the best outstanding player, thereby acquainted arete and absolute admission on the pitch.
Led by Mr Belhassen Malouche CAF TSG Leader, and Ms Jaida Zakaria, CAF TSG Manager, the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Abstruse Study Accumulation brings calm 12 African experts. A accurate hub of adeptness for the tournament, the accumulation has set up its abject at the Sofitel – Jardin des Roses in Rabat, adapted for the break into the assumption centermost of abstruse analysis.
On site, the experts accept admission to a cutting-edge setup: real-time video assay tools, avant-garde statistical platforms, alone and aggregate achievement databases, and abstruse assets enabling the cross-referencing of tactical, physical, and abstruse abstracts from anniversary match. This all-embracing assignment supports a aesthetic compassionate of how the bold evolves throughout the competition.
In parallel, the arrangement is not bound to alien observation. Members of the Abstruse Study Accumulation are additionally present in the stadiums, abutting to the action, in adjustment to abduction on-field dynamics, in-game appropriate adjustments, and capacity airy on screen. This complementarity amid centralized assay and in-situ ascertainment ensures a absolute and accurate appraisal of performances at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations.
The TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Abstruse Study Group, Morocco 2025
Belhassen Malouche (Tunisia – Chairman of the TSG Committee)
Belhassen Malouche has served as a FIFA Regional Abstruse Consultant back 2018, alive beyond civic teams, drillmaster education, grassroots football, and adolescence development programs. His adeptness is congenital on added than two decades of captivation in abstruse development, accepting collaborated with above administering bodies such as FIFA, CAF, and the AFC back 2004.
Previously, he captivated the position of Abstruse Director with several football associations, including Tunisia — with whom he won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2004 — as able-bodied as the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. He has additionally formed as a FIFA Development Manager for projects in Africa and captivated assorted abstruse and administration roles aural the UAE Football Association, Al Jazira Football Company, and the Tunisian civic team.
Aliou Cissé (Senegal)
Crowned Africa Cup of Nations best in 2021 with Senegal, Aliou Cissé now serves as arch drillmaster of the Libyan civic team. A awful admired amount in African football, he boasts a attenuate all-embracing career apparent by three World Cup appearances: already as a amateur in 2002, and alert as Senegal arch drillmaster in 2018 and 2022. Above his acquaintance on the angle and the bench, Aliou Cissé additionally contributes his adeptness to bold analysis. He has conspicuously been a affiliate of the FIFA Club World Cup Abstruse Study Group, acknowledging his cachet as a appropriate advertence and a agog eyewitness of the avant-garde game’s evolution.
Clémentine Touré (Côte d’Ivoire)
Winner of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations with Equatorial Guinea in 2008, Clémentine Touré has accustomed herself as a arch amount in African women’s football. Renowned for her accuracy and bold vision, she now places her adeptness at the account of high-level analysis. A affiliate of the Abstruse Study Accumulation at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, she additionally contributed to the TSG assignment at the 2019 and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cups. Her career, bridging hands-on apprenticeship and appropriate reflection, illustrates her abiding charge to the development and advance of women’s football at the all-embracing level.
Mohamed Magassouba (Mali)
Head drillmaster of Mali from 2017 to 2022, Mohamed Magassouba is a able drillmaster accustomed for his appropriate conduct and his adeptness to get the best out of his squads. Admired beyond the abstemious for his authoritative abilities and aciculate account of the game, he led the Malian Eagles to the Round of 16 at the 2019 and 2022 AFCONs, acknowledging Mali’s bendability on the African stage. His work, accepted for its aggregate conduct and antithesis amid arresting bendability and advancing projection, has artificial his acceptability as both a man of the acreage and of analysis, admired for the accuracy of his attempt and his aerial standards at aristocratic level.
Jacqueline Shipanga (Namibia)
Technical Director of the Namibian Football Federation, a alum of the FIFA Master and the FIFA Abstruse Administration Diploma, and a CAF Aristocratic Instructor, Jacqueline Shipanga embodies a akin of adeptness broadly recognised in the administration and alignment of abstruse development projects at continental level.
She is additionally admired as one of the arch abstracts in African women’s football. Deeply committed to the development of adolescent talent, she founded her own academy, area for several years she has been abstraction able players by accumulation aerial standards, abstruse adeptness and appropriate understanding. This acceptance artlessly led to her arrangement to FIFA’s Abstruse Study Accumulation (TSG), area she contributes her adeptness to the assay and appraisal of performances at above all-embracing competitions.
Abraham Mebratu (Ethiopia)
Abraham Mebratu is a acclimatized coach, accepted for his appropriate adeptness and his adeptness to body aggressive teams. Holder of the Apprenticeship Licence B Instructor diploma, he combines applied acquaintance with avant-garde apprenticeship to abutment the development of coaches and players. His apprenticeship journey, accomplished by collaborations with several African clubs and civic teams, has accustomed him a absolute cardinal eyes of the bold and its evolution. As a affiliate of the Abstruse Study Group, Abraham Mebratu now puts his adeptness at the account of achievement assay and the advance of best practices in African and all-embracing football.
Hérita Ilunga (DR Congo)
Appointed Director of Football of the Congolese Football Federation (FECOFA) in 2025, Hérita Ilunga is a accustomed able in adolescence football development. Drawing on his all-encompassing experience, he has been a affiliate of the Abstruse Study Accumulation at several CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, area his aciculate eye has helped assay aptitude and assay bold dynamics. He has additionally contributed at all-around akin by abutting the Abstruse Study Accumulation of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025, acknowledging his acceptability as a acute eyewitness and analyst able of accumulation appropriate adeptness with a abysmal compassionate of adolescence football.
Miller Gomes (Angola)
Former arch drillmaster of Angola’s U-20 and U-23 teams and ex-assistant drillmaster of the chief civic team, Miller Gomes is a key amount in Lusophone football on the continent. With all-encompassing acquaintance in amateur development, he has led several adolescence civic teams and contributed to the actualization of abounding Angolan talents. A accurate eyewitness and admired educator, he additionally took allotment in the Abstruse Study Accumulation at the 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations, area he applies a alignment accumulation appropriate demands with a nuanced compassionate of bounded contexts to assay and appraise the bold at a aerial level.
Jamal Fathi (Morocco)
National Abstruse Director and Arch of Drillmaster Apprenticeship at the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Jamal Fathi is one of the architects of the structural face-lifting of Moroccan football. A accustomed able in adolescence development, drillmaster education, and achievement methodology, he plays a axial role in adjustment civic abstruse behavior with all-embracing standards.
His admittance in the Abstruse Study Accumulation of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations reflects a charge to administration adeptness and actively accidental to the assay of the change of African football at the accomplished level.
Video Analysts
Abdoulaye Seck (Senegal)
Video analyst at Wydad Casablanca, Abdoulaye Seck is a accustomed specialist in football ascertainment and appropriate analysis. Thanks to his adeptness of agenda accoutrement and achievement software, he transforms bout footage into absolute cardinal information, enabling coaches and players to clarify their comedy and ahead opponents. His accurate methodology, accumulated with all-embracing adeptness of African and Moroccan football, makes him a key amount in bout alertness and achievement monitoring, anon accidental to Wydad’s appropriate adeptness and success.
Mahmoud El Fayez (Egypt)
A accustomed specialist in abstruse and concrete analysis, Mahmoud El Fayez combines able bookish training with all-encompassing all-embracing experience. A alum of the University of Granada, he holds UEFA Pro (2019) and CONMEBOL (2015) licenses, attesting to his adeptness of avant-garde training and bold assay methodologies. His able adventure has apparent him assignment as an abettor drillmaster with civic teams such as Egypt, Syria, DR Congo, the UAE, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain, as able-bodied as with celebrated clubs including Atlético Nacional, Al-Ain, and Al-Nassr. Accepting collaborated with high-profile coaches, he stands out for his adeptness to alloy appropriate rigor, concrete preparation, and a aesthetic account of bold dynamics, bringing cogent cardinal added amount to every aggregation he supports.
Sahib Dahbi (Morocco)
A video analyst with the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, Said Dahbi is accepted for his attention and his adeptness to about-face images into actionable appropriate information. Trained in Toulouse, he masters the best avant-garde abstruse accoutrement to anatomize movements, appropriate choices, and aggregate dynamics on the pitch. His accurate alignment allows coaches and players to accomplish abreast decisions and acclimatize strategies in absolute time. Passionate and methodical, Dahbi is a key contributor to the success of Morocco’s adolescent talents.
Albert Miller (Cameroon)
A above Cameroonian all-embracing midfielder, Albert Miller has auspiciously transitioned his top-level arena acquaintance into analytic expertise. After his arena career, he angry to bold assay and abstruse support, developing a abysmal compassionate of appropriate dynamics and the demands of avant-garde football.
As a affiliate of the Abstruse Study Group, he brings a admired on-field perspective, capital for assessing the absolute appulse of appropriate decisions and alone performances in above continental competitions.