NEW YORK (UNITED STATES) (ITALPRESS) – There are those who risk the commissariamento for the lack of a badge, but there is also those who wear the shirt of a National team playing the World Championships as well, this is the accusation, not having the titles. According to the New York Times there is a new story that Fifa will have to clarify, another case that can complicate the race to yet another mandate as number 1 of Gianni Infantino’s world football.
According to Nyt the goalkeeper of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lionel Mpasi, born in France and extreme defender of the Under 16 and 17 transalpine altogether on 12 occasions, would not have had the documents in order to defend the poles of the Congolese selection, then between the revelations of the World until reaching the 16th with the same Mpasi absolute protagonist and amazing in the match lost for 2-1 with England. Even before the World Championships, according to the documents of the New York Times, the Nigerian Football Federation (ko in the direct confrontation) had presented an exhibit claiming that the Congolese Federation had not completed the official documentation necessary for the change of sports nationality of the goalkeeper.
A stance that would have been confirmed by the Fifa legal offices even before the decisive shootout for the World Cup qualification, won by the Congo against Jamaica. According to the NY Times the International Football Association has not denied the indiscretions, limiting itself to declaring that it has archived the case for a matter of technical nature, adding, with an e-mail reply, that the decision had been taken by one of the “commissions that are autonomous and decide on the basis of the applicable regulations and the specific facts submitted to them”.
In addition, the Fifa would have stated that Infantino had no role in such decisions. According to the prestigious American newspaper, “the documents show that the Fifa officials had developed several options: assigning the victory at the table to Nigeria, imposing pecuniary sanctions, replacing the Congo with Nigeria in the shootout against Jamaica, or not taking any action considering that Nigeria had filed the complaint late.” In the past, in similar cases, Fifa had points to Greece and then also Bolivia for having deployed players without the necessary documentation to dress the national jersey.
The New York Times adds that “an official of the Fifa not directly involved in the case confirmed the authenticity of the documents obtained”, while the president of the Nigerian Football Federation, Ibrahim Musa Gusau, forced to resign after the ko with the Congo and the consequent failure to qualify to the World Championship, has made it known that he has been informed of the rejection of the complaint for technical reasons, but of not having received notices regarding the suit on the porting on the”.
The Times confirms Gusau’s reconstruction and emphasizes the excellent relations between Gianni Infantino and his great supporter, Veron Mosengo-Omba, who was elected president of the Congolese Federation. In the meantime Jamaica, the team defeated by the Congo in the decisive match for the qualification to the World Championship, did not want to comment on the story, while the Concacaf has issued a note emphasizing: “Any practice relating to the suitability of players, in particular those that could compromise the integrity of a competition or the interests of one of our affiliated federations, must be examined and addressed in detail.” In short, another case in Fifa chaos.
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