CAF President Ahmad Ahmad pulled off another masterstroke when he led African legends to defeat their Moroccan counterparts a memorial match in Berkane.
This is the first time a leader of Africa's football governing body has publicly played the game, marking a departure from the previous regime that seemed tired and disinterested.
The Malagasy, who is undertaking major reforms for Africa's governing body, demonstrated his willingness to make the continent's legends relevant to football by leading the African side.
Ahmad showed impressive skills as he captained the side to defeat Morocco 2-1 on Wednesday in the match played in the honour of the late Moroccan international goalkeeper Abdelkader Barazi.
The CAF leader led the African stars with top former players like Kalusha Bwalya, Kahlilou Fadiga, goalkeeper Antoine Bell, Lucas Radebe, Daniel Amokachi, Tony Baffoe, Stephen Appiah, Titi Camara, ElHaji Diouf of Senegal, Lakhdar Beloumi of Algeria and Adel El Chedly of Tunisia and Raja Casablanca as well as female star Jean Sseninde and Mercy Tagoe.
Africa won the match thanks to goals from Diouf and former Zimbabwe international striker Benjani Mwaruwari with Moroccan legend Djouad Ouadouche scoring with a beauty.
The decision to play the match gave Ahmad the chance to fraternise with the legends while projecting CAF in a new positive light as an organisation operating an open door policy.
The decision to play in the match has painted a different and good image of the CAF leadership after making several right moves since taking over the body.
Al-Barazi started his career with the Nahdat Berkhan team before moving to FAR Rabat, where he played for 10 seasons.
He then won the league from 98 to 2000, during which he won the FA Cup.
Watch video of the action below
Watch video of goals of the match below