CAF : les graves révélations de Augustin Senghor
In an interview published this Thursday in L'Observateur, Augustin Senghor, former president of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF), reacted to the decision of the CAF appeals jury, which declared Morocco the winner, by default, of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and stripped Senegal of its title won on the field. "This is an unacceptable decision, which is based on no serious legal argument," the lawyer thundered from the outset.
“In this case,” the former head of Senegalese football continued, “it is clear to me that this commission has overstepped its bounds. It is not within its purview, for a match that ended logically, to revisit the referee's decision, without any legal basis, other than to cite peripheral texts unrelated to the facts of the case. Articles [82 and 84, Ed.] of the AFCON competition regulations cited are not applicable to the facts of the case.”
For Mr. Senghor, from the moment the referee of the final ended the match and submitted his report, "the result can be considered validated." "How can anyone come along two months later and call all of that into question? Simply because one party is using enormous pressure tactics, such as blocking the Women's Africa Cup of Nations, to force the CAF, or at least its jurisdictional bodies, to review the result on the field—that's unacceptable."
The former president of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF) indicates that such questionable practices have become frequent at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in recent years. "What we are seeing has become quite alarming because it keeps happening. This isn't the first time this has happened," the lawyer laments. "We see enormous dysfunctions and undue influence in decision-making. We've had extraordinary instability within the CAF administration lately. All of this fosters, whether in the area of arbitration or internal sports justice, these shortcomings and questionable decisions that we are witnessing."
Mr. Augustin Senghor added: "There is also the situation where, for some time now, in the field of arbitration, there has been a crisis, an instability at the leadership level. And, of course, there is also, I think, the fact that somewhere, we do not have a clear policy regarding the direction we should be taking."
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