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Holders Etoile knocked out of African Champions League

21:02 BST, Sat 10 May 2008
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Tunisian club Etoile du Sahel's Chermite Amine (R) is challenged by Thomas Svesve of the Zimbabwean club Dynamos during the Champion second round first leg march at Gwanzura stadium, Harare, 27 April 2008. Dynamos won 1- 0 with captain Desmond Maringwa scoring in the second half. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE)

TUNIS, May 10 (Reuters) - Holders Etoile Sahel of Tunisia were bundled out of the African Champions League on Saturday after losing 1-0 at home to Dynamos of Zimbabwe in Sousse.

Benjamin Marere scored the game's only goal just before the half hour mark to give Dynamos a shock win, the latest in a series of upsets in this year's competition.

The Zimbabwe champions had also won the first leg 1-0 and went through 2-0 on aggregate.

Dynamos only arrived in the Tunisian coastal resort town in the early hours of the morning of the match after their departure from Harare had been delayed by financial problems caused by Zimbabwe's hyper inflation and foreign currency restrictions.

Etoile Sahel's departure means both Tunisia's Champions League representatives are out of the competition after Club Africain were eliminated on Friday.

In the first round, two other former winners Royal Armed Forces of Morocco and Ghana's Hearts of Oak were eliminated by unfancied opposition.

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