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Gambia News : CAF Fines GFA $10,000 for Fans and Players Misbehaviour
The
Gambia Football Association (GFA) has made a plaintive
appeal to football fans and other members of the general
public, to be “on their best behaviour” in the build-up to
preparations for the World Cup and African Nations Cup
qualification rounds and other CAF-sanctioned football
competitions for the year 2008.
The
appeal came in the wake of a huge financial sanction imposed
on GFA by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
In a
press release issued yesterday the GFA said: “We would like
to sincerely appeal to the general public, especially the
fans, to comport themselves and for them to be in their best
behaviour before, during and after the matches to avoid
further sanction from the Confederation of African Football
(CAF). The CAF Disciplinary Board at their meeting held
recently, imposed a financial sanction of USD 10,000.00 for
the unsporting behaviour of our supporters, as well as the
offensive behaviour of some of our players, during
preliminaries of the 26th African Cup of Nations, Ghana 2008
against Algeria played at the Independence Stadium in Bakau.
CAF Disciplinary Board also suspended six players for their
two next matches with their national teams in the frame of
qualifiers of African Cup Nations for the 2010 World Cup for
their involvement in a quarrel and catfight after the
Gambia/Algeria match. The suspended players are Lamin
Conateh, Abdoulie Carr and Assan Jatta of the Gambia and
Meniri Mahdi, Daha Noureddinne and Bougherra Madji of
Algeria.
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