Saturday, February 9, 2013

CAF Suspends Referee over Burkina Faso and Ghana Semifinal clash.

Posted by wasaafrica at 1:24 AM

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has placed a ban on Tunisian Referee, Slim Jdidi after his controversial performance in Wednesday’s semifinal match between Ghana and Burkina Faso.

CAF’s Secretary General Hicham El-Amrani expressed that the Football body was displeased with the standard of refereeing in the game and has asked Jdidi to step aside from the competition.

In the very controversial game, Referee Jdidi denied Burkina Faso a 5th minute penalty, disallowed an extra-time goal before sending off midfielder Jonathan Petroipa for a second bookable offence in the second half  of extra time.
Burkina Faso went on to win the game 3-2 on post-match penalties after finishing 1-1 at the end of extra-time.

CAF has acknowledged the appeal of the Burkinabe football federation for suspended striker Jonathan Pitroipa.

Jdidi becomes the second official to be suspended by the football governing body from the 2013 Nations Cup. Egyptian referee Gheed who handled the group D match between Nigeria and Zambia was also suspended following a dubious penalty he awarded to Zambia's Chipolopolo.


2 comments :

  1. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM

    Hopefully they are investigating the possibilty that the betting may have influenced the decisions made by the referee

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2013 at 10:54 PM

    @Anon-you are right, it could be the match fixing thing, doubt if they will ever find out, this is Africa.

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