Zambia FA won't comment on dodgy referee against Ghana
Posted On Tuesday, 12th June 2012
Referee Kordi was dodgy in the match against Ghana
Zambia football authorities are refusing to comment on the dodgy refereeing during their 1-0 win over Ghana in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Saturday.
The performance of Tunisian referee Kordi has dominated discussion with many claiming he was bias against the Black Stars during the game in Ndola.
Kordi played a blinder when the ball hit a Zambian defender’s hand in their box in the second half while Ghana captain Sulley Muntari was forced to tell Chris Katongo the ‘truth’ after the latter’s kick crossed but the official awarded a corner kick against Ghana.
Talented youngster Christian Atsu was savagely brought down at the edge of the box and the referee gave him the yellow card which drew the ire of the Ghanaians.
What happened moments latter was even more curious.
Harrison Afful was also hacked down at a similar position and even though the referee took an infringement against him, a yellow card was not shown, if he dived.
These and many other decisions that went against the Black Stars are the reasons why the Black Stars complained of bias against them.
But Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) spokesman Erick Mwanza declined to comment on the performance of the match officials since he claims it is the policy of the FAZ not to comment on officiating.
“We do not comment on the performance of match officials,” Mwanza said.
“We are happy for winning the game against Ghana and we hope to continue from here and ensure that we qualify for the 2014 World Cup.”
Sudan tops the group with four points while Ghana and Zambia share the second spot with three points apiece and Lesotho languishes at the bottom with just a point after day two.
The third round of matches will be played on January 22, 2013 with Ghana hosting Sudan and Zambia sorting things out with Lesotho.
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Ghanians overate themselves and yet they last won AFCON in 1982, and they are known to use over aged players in under 17 and 20 games. Zambia will still beat them in accra or kumasi coz zambians are talented and fast and have the skill.
Why are you Zambians all over Ghana Web? is it for fear.the complaint is about the referee and if you are sincere, you will confess that we did not complain about the Ref when we lost in the CAN 12. Why then are we complaining now? Even a fool can see that the Ref had been bribed.
ha ha ,yo own medicine you were all over our web two weeks ago calling us all sort of names n how our mighty chipololpolo wud b humiliated ..now u already crying of a backlash..shame on u.
Bad losers, Get over it, We were the better team, You did not have a shot on target the whole 90 Minutes, You are no longer a force in african football, This is Zambias time
Chipolopolo iyee Chipolopolo iyee Chipolopolo iyee Chipolopolo iyee
Zemutu you are going to laugh at the wrong side of your mouth come the return match.
CRY BABIES!
ZAMBIA IS YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE! WE HAVE EMBARRESSED YOU TWICE? AND YOU CANT BELIEVE IT. FULL OF SHAME YOU CANT CONCIDE LIKE REAL MEN! YOU CHOSE TO LOOK FOR EXCUSES, EVERYONE KNOWS YOU ARE FINISHED GOODS? YOU ARE NOT KIDDING ANYONE!
AND FOR YOUR OWN INFORMATION? THIS IS NOT YOUR SIGHT ALONE? ITS FOR EVERYONE WHO IS TECHNOLOGICALY ADVANCED? THATS ANOTHER THING? YOU ARE STILL LIVING IN THE STONE AGE! WAKEUP THE WORLD MOVED ON? HAVENT YOU HEARD THAT WE ZAMBIAN MOVED ON WITH THE WORLD? THATS WHY YOU ARE STILL SELLING EACH OTHER!
What goes round comes around. Do to others what they did to you first. Tit for tat is a fair well game and God no go vex.
IF THERE IS ONE THING U CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY 4ROM A ZAMBIAN IS PEACE.
Moronic Zambian!! You’ll be laughing at the wrong side of your mouth when the qualifiers are over, GH is a WC bound not the Zombies.
GHANA U REALLY MUST B A SPENT FORCE TO BEATEN BY ZOMBIES..
Guys, I am Ghanaian and watched the match! If we critisize authorities when we loose a match, we willnot get anywhere. We should go into a match expecting a referee to be at his game..these things happen in every competition so we have to focus on our game rather than referee. We didnt play well Period! Our tactics on the day didnt pay off!! Akwasi Appiah has lessons to learn and so has the players. We should be humble, accept defeat and work well on our weaknesses. A lot of people are expecting Zambia to be beaten on the return match but we are forgetting that if we all end up with the same points and Zambia looses 2-1 at Accra, they will still qualify on away goal. So instead on dwelling on this match we should concentrate on our other matches and hope that Zambia falter at some point so that when we meet in Accra, even a slender win would send us through. Rememeber, the ZAMBIA team is good, they have great Spirit….which is what we had when we went to the Worldcup! We underrate them at our peril!! Referees wont save us, CAF wont save us, FIFA wont save us either. Foot ball is played on the pitch and its there that decisions are made!! We should get our tactics right, play well and win games…Period!!! Bad tactics would almost result in a loss. Invariably we play well andmissout on the tactics, loose a match and then blame everybody but ourselves. This is receipe for disaster!!!!
SANTOS U R THE MAN U SAY IT AS IT IS N LOOKING AT HOW BEST THE BLACK STARS CAN MAKE A COMEBAK NOT THE MAJORITY OF BAD LOSERS ON THE FORUM..
Yes!yes!!yeah!!! Pride come first before downfall……Ghana should learn to respect people
Zemuntu you are a goat!!!
In fact she-goat!!!
IWE HE IS A HE-GOAT? I THINK HE IS EVEN SEXUALLY STARVED? SUCH A LOSER!
I like santo’s analysis. Play football to utilise chances and score. Suppose the so called handballs and fouls resulted in missed penalties!! Don’t play with refs. They are humans who are bound not to see unclear handballs. Its also very easy for a striker to easily fall and fool the ref in the dying minutes of the game. Besides, the ref was closer to the infringement.
If you watched the Sudan game against Zambia, the sudanese players were all over falling to the ground at the slightest of infringements or even without being touched calling for medics. The ref was not even showing them cards. He could even have awarded 15 min injury time instead of 5. But we did not blame the ref. We blamed players for not putting the ball in the net and officials for camping the team in freezing temperatures in south africa whilst going to play in the heat and arriving a day before the game. In the end, we got a sweet result against Ghana. Ghana is a very easy team to beat. U HAVE NO STRIKERS and play useless possession!!!