BY Victor Akhidenor
Tunisia face being banned from the next Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after refusing to apologise for accusing the Confederation of African Football (CAF) of cheating.
The allegation was made after Tunisia felt undone by a last-minute penalty awarded to Equatorial Guinea by the referee, who has since been banned, in the 2-1 quarter-finals defeat.
CAF said it had been sent two letters by the Tunisian football federation after the match, with the second asking for an investigation and suggesting CAF and its officials “were questionable and biased against Tunisia in general”.
The African soccer body fined Tunisia $50,000 for what it termed “the aggressive attitude of some supporters in the stands, invasion of the pitch after the final whistle by players and substitutes of the Tunisian team – insulting the referee of the match and trying to physically assault him – and the regrettable behaviour of the president of the Tunisian Football Federation, Wadie Jary”.
But after a meeting on Wednesday, the Tunisian football federation refused to apologise with a spokesman saying the team had “suffered scandalous injustice from referees”.
The Tunisia football federation now have until Thursday to apologise to CAF or get kicked out of the next AFCON in 2017.
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