Morocco have been fined and suspended from the next two Africa Cup of Nations for pulling out of hosting this year's tournament.
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) has also been fined 1m
US dollars and ordered to pay 9.12m US dollars in damages to the
Confederation of African Football and their partners, CAF said in a
statement.
Morocco had been due to host the
tournament, but requested a postponement because of fears over the Ebola
outbreak on the African continent. Equatorial Guinea stepped in at
short notice to stage the event.
After a meeting of the CAF
executive committee in Malabo on Friday, the federation said in a
statement: "Morocco had based its request to postpone the tournament by a
year on 10 October 2014, on allegations 'of the highest health risk'.
"Morocco
cited the outbreak of the Ebola virus as a case of force majeure (act
of God) in justifying its request for postponement, citing in particular
the risk of contamination of its population because of anticipated
fans' flows.
No comments:
Post a Comment
We reserve the right to delete any message found vulgarizing. Avoid crude or indecent texts..