We’re nonetheless taking part in further time between the DRC and Mauritania. Hung by the Mourabitounes (1-1), the Leopards maintain crying foul. The rationale ? Disastrous arbitration. Cédric Bakambu and Arthur Masuaku stepped as much as criticize the arbitration of Tunisian Selmi Sadok.
The marketing consultant of Canal+ Africa, Man Demel, even went additional suspecting that the referee was corrupt. “After I see a participant take a deal with in entrance of the linesman, and the latter who watches and waits for the central referee to whistle earlier than elevating his flag, I am sorry, for me, there’s suspicion. For me, it is not only a lack of ability“, denounced the previous Ivorian worldwide.
An outing that vastly irritated the Mauritanian Football Federation (FFRIM). “This excerpt (by Man Demel, editor’s notice), broadly relayed on social networks, comes along with different allegations made in an allusive approach throughout this system and which might assist that Mauritania might have exercised, via ‘ excessive locations’, a stress on the referees of the sport. With these phrases, the consultants of this system ‘Les Grandes Bouches’ affiliate the identify of Mauritania with acts of maximum gravity and query the integrity of its representatives, with none proof“, indignantly the authority in a press launch.
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👉 Man Demel’s rant about Mauritania-DRC arbitration (1-1) pic.twitter.com/WtnOCZwZe0
– CANAL + SPORT Africa (@cplussportafr) March 30, 2023
The FFRIM intends to take authorized motion
The FFRIM doesn’t cease there. She threatens to take authorized motion to clear her honor. “These insinuations, devoid of any basis, undermine the distinction and status of Mauritania, basically, and of its Federation, particularly, whose missions embrace, amongst different issues, the safeguarding of the values of sport. Confronted with this critical, unjustified and unjust assault by the consultants of this system ‘Les Grandes Bouches’, the FFRIM reserves the best to convey the case, within the coming days, earlier than the competent courts.“, warns the authority. The latter continues:Alternatively, the FFRIM expresses its deep regrets and its robust indignation on the partiality of the commentators of the Canal+ Sport Afrique channel, manifested all through the 2 conferences in opposition to the DR Congo, above all, the insulting remarks made to the in opposition to Mauritanian gamers within the return match performed on March 28 in Nouakchott, calling them ‘sick’, as they tried to separate a Congolese participant from the referee, an motion removed from trivial in soccer.»
Lastly, the FFRIM believes that the arbitration was unfavorable to the Mourabitounes in the course of the first leg (victory of the DRC 3-1). “The FFRIM remembers that, in the course of the first leg, performed on March 24 in Lubumbashi, quite a few arbitration selections, together with the exaggerated and abusive exclusion of a Mauritanian participant, vastly affected the efficiency of the Mourabitounes. On this motion, which, beforehand had not even been sanctioned by a fault, the referee waved the pink card, following the stress exerted by the gamers, the workers and the opposing public. Regrettable info, however which have by no means prevented the FFRIM from advocating truthful play and the required perspective, with out making any accusation or insinuation in direction of anybody“.
#FFRIM 📣 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞́ 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐅𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐌 🇲🇷
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— FFRIM (@ffrim) March 31, 2023
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