Today, Friday, press reports revealed that the Democratic Republic of the Congo Football Association has submitted a complaint to the Confederation of African Football, in which it is demanding to qualify for the 2022 African Nations Finals in Cameroon, instead of his Gabonese counterpart, due to the latter's illegal involvement of the player Joelor Kanga in the national team match. During the qualifying rounds.
"Africatopsports" reported that the African Union decided to hold a hearing for the two parties at the end of this month, and in the event that Gabon is convicted, it will be excluded from participating in the tournament and entering the Democratic Republic of Congo instead.
The Congolese Federation based its complaint to CAF that it possesses documents proving that the player has Congolese citizenship, and that Kanga's mother died in 1986, while Gabon says that the player was born in 1990, which is impossible to be born 4 years after his mother’s death, which reinforces the Congo’s argument. Democracy.
Gambia and Gabon had qualified from Group Four of the qualifiers, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo failed to qualify after finishing third in the group.
Kanga currently plays for the Serbian Red Star team and has played for Gabon for nearly ten years.
It is worth noting that the Democratic Republic of the Congo team, the complainant, has recently taken over the coaching of Argentine Hector Cuper, the former coach of the Egyptian national team.
The Gabon team is located with the Egyptian national team in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, alongside Angola and Libya.
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