{"id":73845,"date":"2019-01-31T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73845"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T08:41:31","slug":"comoros-want-cameroon-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/comoros-want-cameroon-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Comoros want Cameroon out"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ronald Mpaso: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Malawi national football team\u2019s opponents in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, Comoros Islands, have lodged a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) over Cameroon\u2019s participation at this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Egypt.<\/p>\n

According to an online report on bbc.com<\/em>, a post on social media from the general manager of the Comoros team, Ben Amir Saadi, confirmed the move.<\/p>\n

The report states that Comoros believe Cameroon should be excluded from the 2019 finals after having the hosting rights<\/a> for the tournament withdrawn from them.<\/p>\n

Comoros are in the same qualifying group as Cameroon, whom they face in March as Malawi take on Morocco at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Comoros Football Federation (FFC) claims that Caf [Confederation of African Football] has failed to implement its own regulations concerning the action to be taken. Caf rules (Article 92.3) state that if a nation withdraws from hosting or has the rights taken away one year before the finals, \u2018a fine of five hundred thousand (500,000) US dollars and a suspension of the next edition of Afcon of it\u2019s A national team, without considering the concerned edition,\u201d<\/em> reads part of the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, the report notes that the latter words would suggest that Cameroon\u2019s participation in the 2019 finals should not be affected.<\/p>\n

But it remains to be seen how the FFC\u2019s claim will impact, if at all, upon Cameroon\u2019s hosting of the 2021 Nations Cup, which it is now set to stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs things stand, the Nations Cup qualifier in March between Cameroon and the Comoros will decide who joins already-qualified Morocco in reaching the finals in Egypt, with the fourth team in Group B\u2014 Malawi\u2014no longer able to go through.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWith Morocco on 10 points, Cameroon 8 and the Comoros 5, a draw in Cameroon will be enough for the Indomitable Lions to advance\u2014while the Comoros must win to advance,\u201d<\/em> concludes the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Flames are out of contention after registering just one win and a draw in the qualifiers to remain rooted to the bottom of the table with 4 points.<\/p>\n

Both Cameroon and Comoros collected full points against Malawi in their home matches, with the Flames drawing and winning the reverse fixtures, respectively.<\/p>\n

Malawi are set to conclude non-residential physical fitness exercises tomorrow in Mzuzu, Lilongwe and Blantyre in preparation for the dead rubber Morocco encounter.<\/p>\n

Coach Ronny van Geneugden said it was important for the players to start preparing with fitness exercises as they are currently on an off season break.<\/p>\n

Full campaign is expected to commence next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ronald Mpaso: Malawi national football team\u2019s opponents in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, Comoros Islands, have lodged a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) over Cameroon\u2019s participation at this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Egypt. According to an online report on bbc.com, a post on social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73851,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73845\/revisions\/73851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}