Ghana Football Association (GFA) has filed an official protest to the Federation of International Football (FIFA) over what they have described as a deliberate intent to disallow a goal in Ghana’s 2018 World Cup qualifier against Uganda in Kampala last Saturday.
The GFA in an official release hours after the match at the Mandela National Stadium in Kampala asked FIFA to consider replaying the match and also sanction the match officials to serve the ends of justice without fear or favour.
FIFA Referee, Daniel Bennett, and his assistants-Eldrick Adelaide and Steve Marie- during the 2018 World Cup qualifier against Uganda on Saturday denied the Black Stars the maximum points which could have put them in contention for qualification to the World Cup before their final match against Egypt at home.
The GFA, according to their release, is also petitioning football’s world governing body, FIFA, immediately to examine the performance of the referee for also denying Ghana a clear penalty earlier in the second-half when Ghana midfielder, Frank Acheampong, was brought down in the box.
“These and several other decisions by the match officials have left the GFA with no option than to ask FIFA to examine their performances. The GFA respectfully asked FIFA to consider the possibility of a replay in order to serve the ends of justice without fear or favour,” the statement read.
Ghana, sitting third in Group E and already with only a slender chance of qualifying, needed a convincing win in their penultimate match against the Cranes of Uganda but the result means Egypt could possibly qualify for the first time to the World Cup in 28 years.
Despite fielding a depleted side, Coach Kwasi Appiah’s men produced a decent performance and probably could have won the day but they were denied a penalty in the second half and a legitimate goal in injury time was disallowed by Referee Bennette.
In the 94th minute, Boakye-Yiadom’s shot was spilled by Ugandan goalkeeper, Denis Onyango, before Raphael Dwamena scored.
South African Referee, Daniel Bennett, along with his assistant referee, ruled the goal out for offside but television replays showed Dwamena was clearly onside before he tucked the ball into the net.
Source: today
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THE WHOLE TEAM INCLUDING THE COACH WERE NOT SERIOUS FROM THE FIRST MATCH THEY PLAYED IN TAMALE. JORDAN AYEW GOT A CLEAR CHANCE TO SCORE BUT WASTED IT AND YOU ARE CRYING FOR A PENALTY AFTER EGYPT HAS ALREADY QUALIFIED? ***barred word*** BUNCH OF OCULTIC PLAYERS ESPECIALLY ASAMOAH GYAN AND DEDE AYEW. LUCIFER WILL DEFINITELY DISGRACE AND DESTROY YOU AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.
All what we want is for fairness to prevail but not a matter of who is going to qualify. That is why we are going to FIFA
This is not going to earn any results. If Ghana cared about going to the World Cup, they would have never fielded Asamoah Gyan, Christian Atsu, Jordan Ayew and Dede Ayew at the same time for our crucial games against Congo and Uganda. Any time those four players have been fielded together, we did nothing but earn bad results. It started from Brazil 2014. Since Atsu began to start games directly, Dede Ayew's role has been duplicated and he does not do anything. Jordan and Asamoah Gyan cannot coordinate. They work against each other. We should forget about winning this protest. There is too much politics involved. The referee is British and he officiated this game as a South African. South Africans are powerful in CAF and will not allow their own referee to be banned for life like Lamptey. Secondly, Egypt was the country that benefited from the poor officiation. They have influence in CAF. Unlike Senegal, Ghana is not powerful enough. Sadly, Ghanaians leading the protest can be easily bribed by the Egyptians and South Africans to keep quiet. I will not be surprised if this protest achieves NO RESULTS!