The “Kef” also announced that the Angolan Gerson Emiliano dos Santos and Mozambican Acino Maringola will assist “Gasama” inside the green rectangle, while the task of the fourth ruler was assigned to Suleiman Alameddine from the Comoros.
While the video technology (mouse) is led by Tunisian Haitham Qirat and assisted by his compatriot Khalil Hassani, and the Algerian Lahlou Ben Brahem.
colleague testimonial
For his part, the former international referee, Jihad Greisha, who has been with Gassama for more than 10 years during more than one continental tournament, says that appointing the Gambian referee to manage the Egypt-Cameroon match is a strange decision by CAF.
Greisha added to “Sky News Arabia”: “The Malian Football Association submitted an official complaint to the Confederation of African Football against Bakary Gassama, after his disastrous performance in the team’s meeting against Equatorial Guinea, so how can he be appointed to manage an important and fateful meeting between Egypt and Cameroon?!”
And Greisha continues, “It is also strange that the Gambian referee has not moved away from the football arena in recent years, after more than one controversial incident, which was its first champion, and caused the loss of the dreams of many major teams.”
Regarding the Egypt-Cameroon meeting, the former international referee says: “Gasama is a Zaki referee, and he can limit the Egyptian team, and prevent his players from playing the match normally, at the level of contacts and frictions, so we hope that the Egyptian team players deal perfectly with the meeting, and maintain their focus in case tension of events.
And Greisha added, “The Egyptian Football Association must file an official protest with CAF over this decision, so that pressure will be put on Gassama to provide his best levels in the expected match.”
Greisha concludes his interview with “Sky News Arabia”: “We are fully confident in the ability of the Pharaohs to overcome any difficulties and achieve the expected dream of winning the title that has been absent for more than 10 years.”
controversial history
In the following lines, “Sky News Arabia” reviews some exciting facts about “Gasama’s” march.
The beginning with the events of the African Champions League final return match between Al-Ahly and Moroccan Wydad, which caused controversy, as the head of the Red Castle at the time, Mahmoud Taher, explained that he spoke with the then President of (CAF), Issa Hayatou, and confirmed that the meeting witnessed influential arbitration errors. on its result.
It is worth noting that the 2017 final of the “African Champions” witnessed the Moroccan team’s victory in the first leg with a clean goal, while the return match ended in a positive tie with a goal for the same, to win Wydad the title.
In the same tournament, but in the final of the “2019” version, which brought together Tunisian Esperance and Moroccan Wydad, the cancellation of “Gasama” a goal for Wydad in the 59th minute of the return match caused it to stop completely, after the Moroccan club demanded to resort to the “mouse” technique, and the surprise was that the mouse It was disabled, what made matters worse was that Wydad was subjected to injustice due to the same technique in the first leg after the retired Egyptian referee, Jihad Greisha, calculated a goal and then canceled it after resorting to the mouse.
The Moroccan team refused to complete the match, and was considered withdrawn, so that Esperance was crowned champion of the “African Champions”, in one of the refereeing scenes of the game on the continent.
During the African Championship currently being held in Cameroon, The Gambian made a controversial performance against Mali and Equatorial Guinea, in the quarter-finals of the “Cannes”.
As media reports indicated that the “mouse” was disabled during the meeting, and that “Gasama” claimed in more than one case resorting to video technology, but he was not in contact with anyone in the assistants’ room, which prevented him from announcing several errors, she could have Change the scenario of confrontation.
The match witnessed several controversial arbitration cases, most notably the failure to expel the Equatorial Guinean player, Bikoro, after he interfered harshly with the player Camara.
Bakary Gassama did not award a penalty kick in the last minutes for the Mali national team, after a clear handball in the area of operations, by Equatorial Guinea defender Saul Coco, who won the penalty shootout.
There are other controversial stations in the international governance process; Such as canceling a correct goal for Al-Ahly of Egypt against Sun Downs in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the “African Champions” version 2017, and other controversial cases that were the reason for dispelling the dreams of some teams to achieve positive results.
reactions
With the beginning of news circulating about “Gasama” approaching the management of the Egypt-Cameroon match, on Monday evening, and until the official announcement on Tuesday morning, the publications and tweets of the Egyptian fans, angry at the decision of “CAF”, did not stop, with mentioning the controversial facts that form a blurry picture about the integrity of “Gasama”. During some important meetings he manages.
On Twitter, an Egyptian fan account called “Saad Arafa” tweeted, commenting on the decision to appoint Gassama to arbitrate Thursday’s match, saying: “The Egyptian Federation should issue an official statement to protest this decision, to put Gassama under pressure, and force him to provide a fair arbitration performance. “.
Ironically, the sports journalist, Ibrahim Fayek, published a picture of the referee, “Bakary Gassama”, on his official page, commenting: “This is (this) what the Senegalese Magiti Ndaye, the referee of Morocco Match, says: (You are a teacher and everyone of you learns)”, indicating that The Egyptian team may suffer more refereeing errors than it suffered against the Atlas Lions.