The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has slammed contemporary sanctions towards the Libya Football Federation (LFF).
The new sanctions embrace a $20,000 effective and two upcoming matches behind closed doorways over a unique incident.
The newest sanctions come within the wake of Libya’s enchantment towards the preliminary determination by CAF, which noticed Nigeria awarded three factors and three targets after an airport ordeal involving the guests in Libya.
Recall the Super Eagles and Libya have been initially scheduled to play towards the Libyan staff on the Martyrs of February Stadium in Benina, Benghazi on October 15, in matchday 4 of the AFCON qualification sequence. However, when the Nigerian staff’s flight landed on the Al Abaq airport, they have been held ‘’hostage’ for over 20 hours with out meals and drinks.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) would later announce the Super Eagles’ withdrawal from the qualifying match and requested them to return residence.
CAF had dominated that Libya violated a number of laws in dealing with the Nigerian staff’s arrival, resulting in a forfeited match and a $50,000 effective. Libya, nonetheless, swiftly filed an enchantment, in search of to reverse the victory awarded to Nigeria.
As they tried to enchantment CAF’s ruling in favour of Nigeria, the nation’s soccer physique was handed yet one more penalty.
This time, a separate Libyan staff was fined $20,000 and ordered to play their subsequent two video games behind closed doorways attributable to violent incidents throughout a current match.
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