Algeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Abdelrazzak Sbakak confirmed that his country will continue its struggle against the International Football Association (FIFA) to replay Cameroon in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
Two days ago, the Algerian Football Association received an official response from FIFA regarding the grievance he submitted against referee Bakary Gassama, who ran the match between Algeria and Cameroon in the second leg of the play-off round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, regarding his management of the match and the errors that occurred in it and affected the result, demanding that it be reinstated. Meeting.
In its response, FIFA confirmed that the mistakes made by Bakari Gassama were natural and did not affect the outcome of the match, rejecting the Algerian request to return it.
Sibakak sought to give a new dose of hope to the Algerian masses, at a time when everyone asserts the impossibility of re-establishing the decisive meeting, not even punishing the Gambian referee, due to the absence of compelling evidence against him.
The Algerian minister said, during a meeting with various local media outlets, led by state television: “We received a correspondence from the International Football Association, during which he informed us of the decision.”
He continued: “Algeria, for its part, will work to respond in a legal way, according to what is available and permitted in the FIFA regulations,” stressing that the Greens will not easily give in to that decision.
The Algerian minister’s statements came to raise more than one question about the upcoming step of the Algerian Football Association, at a time when its president, Sharafeddine Amara, stressed many times that talking about the rematch of Cameroon is a “sale of illusion.”