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Enyimba Blast Caf's Decision To Reschedule Champions League Tie Against Zamalek by Larry37(m): 4:52pm On Aug 12, 2016 |
Nigeria champions Enyimba have described the
sudden rescheduling of a CAF Champions tie at
Zamalek as “highly unfair”, maintaining they do
not enough players to play the match on
Saturday.
Enyimba departed Nigeria on Thursday
afternoon with the knowledge that their make or
break tie against the Egyptians is on Sunday,
August 14, 2016 but shortly after arrival in Cairo,
a letter from CAF was received by the club,
stating that due to security concerns the match
had been brought forward to Saturday.
“This is highly unfair. I don’t know how the
fixture of a game as important as this can be
brought forward without any consultation with
the visiting team. It's against the rules," blasted
Enyimba chairman Felix Anyansi-Agwu.
“We have made all our plans based on the
knowledge that we are playing on Sunday, so we
don’t know how we can suddenly be told to play
on Saturday.
“What if we had arrived Egypt on Friday? Would
we have been forced to still play on Saturday?
This is not fair at all for us and for the entire
Nigeria. Any change should have been discussed
with us so all parties can work out what is in the
best interest of everyone. Right now, this doesn’t
suit us at all.
“Moreover, we travelled with a limited number
of players. Our intention was to have the rest of
our squad join us from Spain on Saturday,
where they are on national assignment. They
would be arriving Cairo at 5 pm on Saturday, so
how would the match be played?
“We do not have the requisite number of players
for a match on Saturday, so we are appealing to
CAF to move the game to Monday, August 15, if
it cannot be played on Sunday due to security
concerns, it’s the only way we can play.”
“We will also be appealing to the Egyptian FA
and Zamalek to assist us in changing our
booking reservations with Egypt Air from
Monday to Tuesday. This change will cause us
difficulties and we are appealing to CAF, the
Egyptian FA and Zamalek SC to make things easy
for us, because we have no hand in the
adjustment of the fixture.”
Enyimba have no point in their group after two
games and will be hoping to win in Cairo to keep
alive their dreams of a third continental crown.
Zamalek meanwhile are second on the table
with three points behind already qualified
Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa. |
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