| |||||||||||||||||||
 |
| ||||||||||||||||||
|
|
as FIFA allowed Real Madrid and FC Seville players respectively Mamadou Diarra and Frederic Omar Kanoute to stay with their clubs instead of joining their Malian national team which is to face Sierra Leone today in Africa Nations Cup qualifiers, whereas MCA and JSK have been deprived of their players Moussa Coulibaly and Chikh Omar Dabo in the semi-final Republic Cup matches taking place yesterday. So doing, FIFA has consecrated double standards policy, the matter that raises many questions as regards criteria adopted by the highest international football institution in taking such improvised decisions likely to undermine the sublime values of the game notably in African countries whose sole sin is belonging to a poor continent exhausted by wars and plagues. Amidst a glaring silence among African football officials, the French Malian team coach Jean François Godar pointed out: “FIFA decisions stroke me! I hope that they bear in mind next African Nations Cup competitions”. He also criticized Africa Football Confederation CAF that has not lift a finger to advocate African clubs, adding, “Our match with Sierra Leone could be postponed later on, as was the case for Egypt and Burundi match delayed for the convening of a conference on AIDS”. | ||||||||||||||||||
MCA and JSK deprived from their players services