A young Egyptian man scored an own goal by pretending to take a university exam for professional footballer Mostafa Mohamed, currently playing for the Pharaohs in the Africa Cup of Nations, state media said. Mohamed, 24, is in Cameroon with the Egyptian national team which has made it to the last-16 stage of the African competition, while back home national exams are taking place this week. But a campus official noticed that Mohamed wasn't the one sitting the exam and filed a judicial complaint. One Twitter user called it "the stupidest crime in the 20th and 21st century" and said: "The 100 million Egyptians following football across the continent know that Mostafa Mohamed is in Cameroon." It was unclear if the footballer had asked the other man to take his place, or what the penalty would be.

Source: Daily Nation January 25, 2022 16:45 UTC