Africa-Press – Gambia. Afrik Foot: The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has overthrown Seychellois referee Eddie May, who was considered the first « protector » of Gambian referee Bakary Gassama on the African continent.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to remove the Seychian referee, Eddie May, from the post of chairman of the African arbitration commission, according to what the electronic newspaper Al-Majeed revealed in a tweet on its account. on Twitter.
The tweet from the same newspaper recalls the high praise that former Seychellois international referee Eddie May gave to his Gambian colleague Bakary Gassama, during several meetings of the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football.
According to many Algerians, referee Gassama is the main cause of having deprived the Algerian national team of reaching the final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, due to the refereeing massacre he committed against Belmadi and his Cubs at the Blida stadium, during the Algeria-Cameroon match.
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Former Algerian international referee Djamel Hamoudi is one of the most prominent candidates to succeed Eddie May as head of the jury in the « CAF » body, according to what the previous source confirmed.
Former Ivorian international referee Normandir Douy will compete with Algerian Djamel Haimoudi for the presidency of the jury of the Confederation of African Football, the most popular game in the world, a committee which has received serious accusations of corruption in recent years .
Many African football scholars and coaches, including Algerian national voter Djamel Belmadi, have said that the refereeing system in Africa falls far short of its referees applying football laws as they are written, taking the party of the teams to the detriment of the others.
CAF President Patrice Motsepe, during his recent visit to Algeria, implicitly acknowledged the corruption that plagues African refereeing, when he promised to improve the refereeing system on the continent.
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