CAIRO: Small Moroccan club FUS Rabat became only the second Moroccan winners of the African Confederation Cup after shocking Tunisia's CS Sfaxien on Saturday. The Rabat club won 3-2 to take the title. The first leg of the final was a goalless draw in Rabat last weekend, with two-time winners Sfaxien feeling confident of a third championship in the second-tier African club competition. Abdelfatteh Boukhriss put FUS, an unfashionable team promoted to the Moroccan first division only three seasons ago, ahead eight minutes into the opening half. Hamdi Rouid levelled just before half-time and when veteran midfielder Kamel Zaiem converted a Tunisian penalty two minutes after the break an air of inevitability hung over the game. But star-less FUS are nothing if not fighters and mid-year signing Mohamed Zouidi levelled on 74 minutes and snatched the match-winner one minute before full-time. Boukhriss and Zouidi were unlikely stars for the Moroccans as they had not scored before in a competition won five years ago by another Rabat club, military outfit FAR. A capacity 30,000 crowd left Taieb Mhiri Stadium in the Mediterranean city of Sfax on the east coast of Tunisia stunned after seeing the home team lose at home for the first time in the competition after 23 victories and a draw. BM
