In what is slowly developing into a new norm in football since the January 18th AFCON final, Kocaelispor players walked off the pitch in the 94th minute to protest a penalty awarded to Konyaspor over the past weekend.<\/p>\n
The post explicitly highlights the parallel with the incidents during the 2025 AFCON final in Morocco, where Senegal also left the pitch before returning 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n
This \u201csurreal scene\u201d confirms a worrying international trend: walking off the pitch is becoming a tool for media protest, normalised by the leniency of the initial CAF sanctions in the Morocco-Senegal case.<\/p>\n
Unless FIFA becomes intentional and stamps authority over the pitch walk-off incidents, match interruptions will continue for the longest time possible.<\/p>\n
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