AFCON 2025 OPENING CEREMONY 🏆🇲🇦 Creative Direction & Production Design. We never imagined how glorious it would all feel in the end. After all the long nights, last-minute changes, wild turns, and unexpected chaos — we delivered a ceremony that was bold, poetic, powerful, and proudly Moroccan. Against all odds, we made something beautiful. Leading this cast and crew has been one of the greatest honours of my life. Thank you to @avantsceneagency Maroc for your trust and guidance on all things Morocco Malika, Mehdi and Ismail— and to @balichwonderstudio @marcobalich_bws @simonmerico and of course the one and only @claudia_cattai for the opportunities that continue to make my life so full. This was a triumph of teamwork, and I share it with every single one of you. ✨ With deepest gratitude to this dream team: 🔻 Lighting Design: @rolandgreil 🔻 Choreography Direction: @citlaknight @luisflorenci0 🔻 Producers: @paoladoriarossetto @azad.valiyev Daria Bertinelli @sonianooor 🔻 Stage Designer: @tommishen 🔻 Music Direction & Composition: @polyphonia_studio with collaboration of @sonianooor and @omaryofficiel 🔻 Costume Design: @amalbenayad with collaboration of @mareajosehdez 🔻 Show Calling: @charbel_k 🔻 Video Content: @ahmdraws direction with the work of @float4_mtl 🔻 Executive producer: Jane Frase and @annalisa9275 🔻 Cast: Over 200 performers from all corners of Morocco and beyond leaded by @raposorodrigo @renatavieitas 🔻 Technical Direction and Ops and overall best pair in the world: Steve Myland and @magsymou 🔻 Commercial: @mart_mand We are not one voice — we are a chorus. Not one colour — but every shade that roars. We are tribes of the new generation, Born different — but playing as one cause. This is Africa’s game. This is Africa’s time. #AFCON2025 #OpeningCeremony #WeAreDifferent #WePlayAsOne BalichWonderStudio AvantScene Morocco LiveEvents AfricanFootball UnityInDiversity