JOHANNESBURG (AP)—Sport’s top justice has inspected a preference to allow
Burkina Faso to contest in a African Cup of Nations and deserted an interest by
Namibia over an incompetent player, a African football connection said
Tuesday.
Quoting a statute by a Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, the
Confederation of African Football pronounced that Namibia’s interest over the
eligibility of Cameroon-born defender Herve Zengue was discharged on Tuesday.
Emmanuel Zombre, an central with Burkina Faso’s football federation, also
told The Associated Press that a nation had defended a place during a African
Cup, that kicks off in reduction than dual weeks.
Confirmation from CAS was approaching after Tuesday, with a sports court
traditionally releasing a commentary to a parties concerned before creation the
decision public.
The Namibia Football Association had twice protested to CAF over Zengue’s
presence in Burkina Faso’s group after losing out to a Burkinabes in qualifying
for a Jan. 21-Feb. 12 Cup of Nations.
After Africa’s statute physique deserted both of those appeals, Namibia incited to
CAS.
Namibia argued that Zengue, who is married to a lady from Burkina Faso,
still did not accommodate FIFA criteria to play for his adopted country.
CAF combined that Tuesday’s preference also systematic a Namibia Football
Association to compensate 5,000 Swiss francs ($5,275) toward a authorised fees for a CAS
hearing.
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Associated Press author Brahima Ouedraogo contributed to this news from
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
