Senegal pledges to fight ‘robbery’ after CAF strips it of AFCON title
Al Jazeera
Senegal’s lawyers say CAF’s decision to hand Morocco the AFCON title ‘openly violates the laws of the game’.
The head of Senegal’s football governing body has pledged to mount a “crusade” against a decision by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to strip the country’s African Cup of Nations title, as its legal team warned the case could reshape the world of football and undermine the principle that refereeing decisions are final.
“This decision cannot even be considered a true sporting justice ruling – it is so crude, so absurd, so irrational,” lawyer Juan de Dios Crespo Perez, representing Senegal’s ruling body, told a news conference on Thursday.
“It openly violates the laws of the game and the principle that refereeing decisions are final.”
“In the face of this administrative robbery, the FSF refuses fatality. We will fight a moral and legal crusade,” Abdoulaye Fall, president of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF), said.
The FSF lodged an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday against the decision to overturn the result.
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