The world cannot live without the stories of MAMA Africa, the continent where corrupt match buying and selling takes place.
The last
speech of Farouk Jaafar the former Egyptian player and the former coach of
Zamalek Sporting Club on the buying and selling of African matches. This
gentleman's words created a scandal within the African football federation as
well as within the Egyptian federation.
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| Farouk Gaafar |
The most astonishing that Mr. Jaafar specified the methods and modalities of operation of corruption operations and he said during a program with the sports channel of Zamalik that: He was seated with the referees before the African matches for Zamalek in the eighties of the last century when he was captain of the team, and the referee gave him the choice between awarding a penalty to the team or ejecting a player from the competitors, in exchange for the referees shopping in the stores from Port Said and taking whatever they needed, confirming that this was happening with all the teams that were playing in Africa at the time, like Al-Ahly, Al-Ismaili and the "Arab Contractors"
Jaafar added
that Egypt were also congratulated in one of the 1990 World Cup qualifying
matches, where the referee canceled a decent goal for the opposing team which
led to the qualification of the team for the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
This is not
the first time that confirmed rumors about referee corruption have come to the
fore from time to time. In 2018 the president of CAF (the African Football
Federation) ended the collaboration of 26 referees after a scandal recorded by
an amateur camera of someone negotiating the purchase of matches with several referees.
In addition
to that referee Janny Sikazwe was arrested by CAF for his unforgivable
performance in 2018 in the semi-final of the CL between primeiro di agosto and
EST so he gave the EST club the qualification to the final of a Quirky enough
for the same club to get the cup after another scandal against Egyptian Alhly
club.
The scandals
reached the top during the meeting of the Wydad of Casablanca and the Tunisian
EST when it turned out that the match was being played in the absence of the
VAR and that the referees were actors to spend the said evening in front of
millions spectators around the world the fact that pushed the Moroccan club to
contest this situation in the middle of the match when the referee refused to
return to the VAR to validate the Moroccan club's equalizer goal but the
referee refused in a way surprising before a player of the Moroccan club
discovers that the VAR does not work and the referees with the Tunisians were
complicit in this scandal and everyone is aware of the result and the case is
currently in the hands of the sports court in Switzerland and which has been
dragging on for a year and a half without having a clear legal solution.
In 2010,
Joseph Lamptey validated a goal scored by the hand of the Tunisian striker in
the semi-final of the CL against AL ahly of Egypt while CAF did not react
against the referee. so that everyone awaits the intervention of FIFA in 2017
for the final judgment of Joseph Lamptey after the corruption of the match of
Senegal and South Africa when he gave a penalty (Gift) to Africa from south so
that he could participate in the 2018 World Cup but luckily, FIFA turned the
situation around and declared the Senegalese team the winner
FIFA issued
an official statement at the time, confirming that it "will not tolerate
changing the outcome of matches and will protect justice in football".
Low salaries of referees:
It should be
noted that the salaries of African referees are low folds around the world
knowing that CAF generates profits in millions of dollars. No one can imagine
that until 2012 the referee's salary per day in African cups does not exceed $
100.
In 2010, the
referees organized a demonstration during the African Cup for an increase in
salaries but the president at that time Issa Hayatou refused any increase in
salaries and he gave each referee a watch at the end of the competition.
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| Issa Hayatou |
Things are worse in club competitions and the referees were forced to accept $ 750 per game until Ahmed Ahmed arrived and with the help of his right hand Moroccan Faouzi Lakjaa and they increased the pay per match at $ 1125.
Swiss international referee Massimo Busacca asked - became FIFA referee director in 2011 and so far: Algerian international referee Mohamed Benouza, about what they get paid in Africa, answered 750 $, then Busaka was so touched that he almost cried saying: In Europe we get 5,000 euros ($ 5,800) per game.
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| Ahmed Ahmed & Faouzi Lakjaa |
Among the
funniest and saddest stories, the story of the Algerian referee Jamal Haymoudi
when he declared a real penalty for the benefit of an Egyptian club against a
club of Camerone which bears the same nationality of that of Issa Hayatou and
in between halves An influential member of the referees commission walked in
and violated the decision on the negative result of the team belonging to Hayatou's
hometown, so the referee cried to be affected.
In 2011 the
inquiries found that referee Yasser Abderraouf refused an envelope of $ 10,000
for the referee to work for TP Mazembi against a club in Tanzania.
At the end of
the day CAF is aware of the clubs that always seek to win by the wrong methods
and until there is control over these clubs it will be difficult for the
referees to refuse thousands and thousands of dollars, sums of money. that can
change their lives and those of their families.
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