Sierra Leone-Benin match case : CAF's Drop-goal

After hearing both parties, CAF has ruled: The aborted match of 30 mars 2021 in Freetown will be replayed. Autopsy of controversial verdict.

The apex body of African football has decided to cut the pear in half. She opts for postponement of Sierra Leone match # Benin for the June international window. For Sierra Leoneans, it is the best expression of a super power of its leaders within the governing bodies of African and world football. Car, even in the presence of overwhelming evidence : Non-existence of laboratory documents (occasionally substituted by a loose sheet or the names of 5 Beninese players supposedly positive for Covid were written in ballpoint pen), delay in the delivery of supposed results (came 1h30 minutes before the match. For as long as the regulations prescribe 2 hours before the match) and the manifest rascal who was able to operate, the country is doing pretty well. Proof that in football, as in life, “The reason of the strongest is always the best”

For Benin, it is a real “robbery” institutional imposed and suffered. Despite the record for the concrete blow, the Squirrels find themselves having to play a game where the opponent, urbi et orbi has almost ridiculed what seems many “faux tests” Covid. Proof of this is that all these pinned players all tested negative afterwards.. In the eyes of the world the thesis of cheating is obvious.

For CAF, this is a missed opportunity to mark its territory and spell the end of fraud. By noting the postponement of the match, it is an apology for crime, a life-size celebration of the tampering in which African football vegetates light years away from professionalism in many countries. CAF missed an anthology goal, yet on a golden opportunity.

Robert KEKELY