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CAS to rule on Sudan World Cup points deduction next week

Posted On Thursday, 21st February 2013

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The decision on Sudan’s appeal against Fifa’s decision to strip them of three World Cup points given to Zambia will be known by next week, MTNFootball.com can exclusively reveal.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) has told MTNFootball.com that will it announce the decision that will affect Ghana’s 2014 World Cup chances by the end of this month.

Sudan took FIFA to the Swiss court sports court in an attempt to regain a World Cup qualifying victory the team were stripped of by Fifa for fielding an ineligible player in their match against Zambia.

Cas says it aims to give a verdict by the end of February, before group matches resume in March.

“Please be advised that the decision is expected to be notified by the end of this month,” CAS spokesperson Katy Hogg told MTNFootball.com exclusively.

Sudan beat Zambia 2-0 in a Group D tie in Khartoum on 2 June but football’s world governing body Fifa awarded Zambia a 3-0 win by 45270ca2ec4b8da6f391b84626583e30 after ruling that Saif Ali, who scored the second goal, should have been suspended for accumulating yellow cards in previous competitive matches.

Ali was sent off when Zambia beat Sudan in an Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final in February.

If the original scoreline is reinstated Sudan will lead the group ahead of 2010 World Cup quarter-finalists Ghana.

But if Cas upholds the Fifa ruling Zambia, who won the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, will have maximum points from two matches.

Sudan’s next match is away to Ghana on 24 March, while Zambia will play on the same day away to last-place Lesotho.

On the field of play, Zambia’s six point lead of the log now appears unassailable because it has a home match against Sudan and a two-legged regional battle with Lesotho – three games from which Zambia can collect maximum points.

Ghana, now second on the log with three points, will need to win its two-legged ties with Sudan and an away match to Lesotho. Ghana could be fancied to beat Lesotho away and Sudan at home.

However, beating Sudan at its home is a herculean task.

The decider appears to be the Zambia –Ghana clash to be hosted by Ghana.

Chipolopolo has the luxury of drawing this game or even losing it, provided Ghana stumbles away to Sudan or Lesotho and that’s assuming Zambia maintains a 100% record.

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READERS COMMENTS

  1. POW says:

    What is Ghana soccer net saying here at all?
    I thought we have only one match to play with Sudan? We’re suppose to play Sudan, Zambia at home in Ghana and one away with Lesotho to make complete the pairings and what are you guys saying?

  2. Ghanaman says:

    The article is written by a Southern African who have such an inferiority complex to west Africans that they would prefer to take an inferior team like Zambia to the world cup were they will lose all their games or, fail to make it to the knock out state like ALL Southern African teams have historically done. Why is the writer acting like we would struggle to beat Sudan Away when we have done it the last 2 times?? These Southern Africans are our ENEMIES and if around them you better have your security in check!! They are cheats and criminals!!!

    Even if CAS gives Zambia 3 points they did not earn we will qualify and these DEMONS and CHEATS will fail in their devilish agenda to eliminate to the only African team to make it to the knockout stages of the world cup in the last DECADE!!! An agenda to clearly destroy African football to promote Southern African supremacy at all costs!!!

  3. Ghanaman says:

    If you look at the case by the letter of the law there is a 99 percent chance Zambia will win it.

    If Sudan claim they were not informed what CAS will say is, you should have contacted FIFA or CAF to be sure.

    Here are the rules:

    Sanctions (cautions, expulsions, automatic match suspensions) have an immediate effect on subsequent matches even if the letter of confirmation(saying the player is ineligible) reaches the association, club or head of delegation concerned later. Match suspensions not served during the competition for which they were intended (elimination or the last match in the competition) are carried over as follows: e) confederation competitions for representative teams: carried over to the representative team’s next official match in a competition organised by FIFA.

    The 1 percent chance Sudan has of winning is if Zambia did not protest in time and CAS considers that the case was invalid then. But, if Sudan’s case is about not being informed since the information was online and available to them ignorance of the law does not mean you won’t get punished.

    Should CAF and FIFA have informed them? Yes but, they were not required to and I am certain it is all part of an agenda to try to eliminate the best African team at the world cup over the last decade as a means to lower the world cup spots allotted to Africa since without Ghana the chance of any African team making it to the Knockout stage is severely reduced!

    Nigeria? They have not won a world cup game in over a decade and a half!

    Ivory Coast? They will all be very old and if they could not do it at 26 they won’t be able to do it at age 32!!!

    Egypt? They have never won a world cup game in their history so, their chances of making it to the knock out stage is almost zero!

    Cameroon? They were the worst team at the last world cup!

    Senegal? They are in complete disarray!!

    So, this is an concerted effort to try to destroy the best African team on the world stage in the last decade probably as a mechanism to lower the world cup spots and give more spots to other regions! After all, if when given 5 spots in 2006 only one team made the knock out stage and when given 6 spots in 2010 the results were the same maybe this confederation is so weak that when in 2014, without Ghana, all 5 exit in hostile South America and the spots should be reduced to a more appropriate 3!!

    If you look at Africa’s direct rivals
    CONCACAF and Asia…
    In 2010 Mexico and the USA made it to the Knock out stage yet their region has less spots of 3.5 compared to CAF’s absurd 5 spots)

    In Asia, Japan and South Korea made it to the knock out stage! Thus, on what basis do these regions have less world cup spots that failing and corrupt Africa!!

    After all Ghana did for this lowly corrupt region THIS IS HOW they try to pay is back but, in the end it will bite them in the a$$ and should they succeed African football will be destroyed for a generation when the world cup spots are rightfully reduced to 3 after all 5 teams fail in Brazil!!

    I still strongly believe we will qualify though as all we need to do is beat Sudan home and away and beat Zambia at home by as little as ONE goal but, this stupidity has made it such that we need to be perfrect!!!

  4. Papa says:

    Ghanaman, from your conclusions on the court case at CAS, you have shown that you do have grey matter. You only pretend to be stupid when you speak about Zambia and Southern Africa. Again you have pretended to be illogical in your argument that Ghana is the best team in Africa. You should also not pretend to be blind to the facts that you came out fourth at Afcon 2013, even with the assistance of the Tunisian referee in your game against Burkina Faso. Stop your pretensions Because it is clear you are an intelligent man.

    • Ghanaman says:

      The African cup is corrupt. HAVE you forgotten that we did not even get to practice on the pitch we played Burkina on. Nowhere in the world would such barbarism be possible!! Only in Barbarian Southern Africa!!

  5. Chu says:

    Stripping Zambia of the 3 points would conflict FIFA’s decision and i dont see the CAS doing anything different. The best decision which should had been taken was to fine Sudan and ban Salfeidin but all the same I dont see Zambia beat Sudan. Neither are they winning in Lesotho. Mark my words. They are better chassing us than being on top and they will turn jittery

  6. 9ja Blood... says:

    @ghanaman. You are a fool with ur ur dull brains, what has ghana achieved in the w/cup, quaterfinal my foot’ pride goes b4 a fall, and that’s where ur football is now…watch

    • Ghanaman says:

      Foolish ugly ape!!!!!! It is a feat you have never achieved! You are part of the demons trying to destroy African football!! You are an ANIMAL and a criminal! Get off our site… Change your name to devils blood! I bet you are a Yo-Robber(yoroba) criminal or IgnoBle(Igbo) dog!!!!!!

  7. tank God we are nt nigerians says:

    @9ja blood u a even stupid dan i tot u were.if u hav nottin betta to say send som shadawts to boko haram n yor dead country

  8. chris phiri says:

    Just as it was written in the stars during our Afcon triumph,its now written that Zambia will be in Brazil and Ghana can only blame Sudan and 2ndly themselves for being beaten by Zambia as opposed to playing for a draw in zambia





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