A GENDER cheating row is currently brewing against Equatorial Guinea, which both Ghana and Cameroun have claimed is fielding men in the ongoing African Women’s Championship (AWC) in South Africa.

Two Black Queens’ players, Diana Ankomah and captain Florence Okoe, claim that Guinea used three men during their final Group B game on Monday. Cameroun has also filed an official complaint against Guinea for similar age and gender claims.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is refusing to comment on the issue, as this is the second consecutive tourney at which the Guineans have been accused of gender cheating. Salimata Simpore, Bilguisa Simpore and team captain Genoveva Ayonmang were in 2008 suspected to be boys.

Indeed, against Ghana, both Simpore and Ayonmang were looking too strong for their opponents, with the latter’s goal for her team’s second of the game a shot any male goalkeeper could have found difficult stopping. Black Queens’ captain, Okoe, said no one would make her yield in her belief that Simpore was “a boy playing in a girls’ game.”

She said: “It is not as if we are throwing sour grapes just because we have lost. Rather, this is the fact and it is up to the organisers to do something about this. It is not good for African women football.”

Ankomah also said that despite their disappointing finish, they were only feeling unhappy with the gender of the opposition. She echoed to NAN the claim that at least two of Equatorial Guinea’s players were not girls, saying: “To lose a football game is not something we don’t know how to take, that is now normal for us as footballers.
“But losing to unequal opposition like in this case of Equatorial Guinea is painful. You only need to have physical contact with them to know this, and we can tell from what happened most times during the match.”

The allegation had reverberated during the last edition of the competition as host, Equatorial Guinea, romped to the title, with Nigeria one of the two countries to raise a complaint then. The competition organiser, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), had, however, waved the allegation then, saying its investigation revealed that the “boys” were really girls.

Efforts to get CAF to comment on the allegation yielded no fruit, as the Match Commissioner, Souaadatou Kalkaba, told NAN that she was not competent to speak on the issue. Hours after their exit from the ongoing tourney in South Africa, the Black Queens are feeling that their loss in their final match was not “ordinary.”

Ghana lost 1-3 to Guinea on Monday evening at Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium in Johannesburg to crash out of the continental event. The Ghanaians had needed a win to progress from Group B to the semi-finals, but the second match day’s 1-2 loss to Cameroun put them in a difficult position.

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A GENDER cheating row is currently brewing against Equatorial Guinea, which both Ghana and Cameroun have claimed is fielding men in the ongoing African Women’s Championship (AWC) in South Africa.

Two Black Queens’ players, Diana Ankomah and captain Florence Okoe, claim that Guinea used three men during their final Group B game on Monday. Cameroun has also filed an official complaint against Guinea for similar age and gender claims.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is refusing to comment on the issue, as this is the second consecutive tourney at which the Guineans have been accused of gender cheating. Salimata Simpore, Bilguisa Simpore and team captain Genoveva Ayonmang were in 2008 suspected to be boys.

Indeed, against Ghana, both Simpore and Ayonmang were looking too strong for their opponents, with the latter’s goal for her team’s second of the game a shot any male goalkeeper could have found difficult stopping. Black Queens’ captain, Okoe, said no one would make her yield in her belief that Simpore was “a boy playing in a girls’ game.”

She said: “It is not as if we are throwing sour grapes just because we have lost. Rather, this is the fact and it is up to the organisers to do something about this. It is not good for African women football.”

Ankomah also said that despite their disappointing finish, they were only feeling unhappy with the gender of the opposition. She echoed to NAN the claim that at least two of Equatorial Guinea’s players were not girls, saying: “To lose a football game is not something we don’t know how to take, that is now normal for us as footballers.
“But losing to unequal opposition like in this case of Equatorial Guinea is painful. You only need to have physical contact with them to know this, and we can tell from what happened most times during the match.”

The allegation had reverberated during the last edition of the competition as host, Equatorial Guinea, romped to the title, with Nigeria one of the two countries to raise a complaint then. The competition organiser, the Confederation of African Football (CAF), had, however, waved the allegation then, saying its investigation revealed that the “boys” were really girls.

Efforts to get CAF to comment on the allegation yielded no fruit, as the Match Commissioner, Souaadatou Kalkaba, told NAN that she was not competent to speak on the issue. Hours after their exit from the ongoing tourney in South Africa, the Black Queens are feeling that their loss in their final match was not “ordinary.”

Ghana lost 1-3 to Guinea on Monday evening at Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium in Johannesburg to crash out of the continental event. The Ghanaians had needed a win to progress from Group B to the semi-finals, but the second match day’s 1-2 loss to Cameroun put them in a difficult position.

Next time, please include the source:

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28963:ghana-cameroun-spark-gender-row-accuse-eguinea-of-fielding-men&catid=58:abroad&Itemid=623

Anyway, I can't say I'm surprised cos that was the same complain that was made by all the teams that played against Equitorial Guinea in 2008. It just shows how messed up CAF as an organization is.

Hopefully, now that they've qualified for the world cup, this matter will be investigated and the true gender of those players will be determined.

[img]http://www.fansoccer.de/jugendnatios/u20wm2010/spielberichte/kolumbien-nigeria/ts-osinachi-ohale-ingrid-vidal.JPG[/img]

Wow!!!

I know these people don't look like women.

Including the one with pix here:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-550422.0.html

But one argument in there favour is that these are strictly the kind of man/woman Mobinga goes for. Anything more feminine is a "HELL NO!" for him.

wow . . . I guess I would be suspicious too. But the "testing" to confirm their gender could've been performed right there on the field now . . . just aim the ball to one center place on the body and see if they collapse to the ground in excruciating pain or not.

and oh, moderator, maybe a title modification is in order here? the title is not as descriptive as the other threads (which got more traffic btw) you closed. Just an idea.

folem:



[img]http://www.fansoccer.de/jugendnatios/u20wm2010/spielberichte/kolumbien-nigeria/ts-osinachi-ohale-ingrid-vidal.JPG[/img]

What did you post these pics for?   

Fine, they look like men but their gender was never in doubt and I find it mischievous especially the pics of Osinachi Ohale. You should have posted the pics of the Equatorial Guinea players in question (Salimata Simpore, Bilguisa Simpore and Genevova Anonoma)and not this.

If the allegations are true, I think it will amount to a great sense of filth and shame for Africans. I mean, can we do anything right without the intervention of the WHITE or ARAB man?

Look at the last ANC in Angola, and how CAF treated the victims. Look at our teams (minus Ghana) and lat minute million dollar payoffs to white coaches in the last world cup. One word-shame.

Not to talk of over-age cheats, corrupt FA's, and brainwashing for EPL by our very own.

damn! what a face