“CAF” confirms the acceptance of the Nahdet Berkane shirt

“Hesport” learned, from official sources, that the Confederation of African Football rejected the appeal submitted by the Algerian Football Federation, this morning, in order to review the decision to allow RS Berkane to face USM Algiers with shirts bearing the full map of Morocco.

The same sources explained that the Algerian Federation’s appeal was rejected and the decision of the CAF Clubs Committee, issued yesterday, was upheld, which included support for RS Berkane’s position and confirmation of the legitimacy of its wearing shirts bearing the map of Morocco, since the CAF itself had previously approved the design and content of the existing graphics. On shirts since the beginning of the season.

“Hesport” sources indicated that the Moroccan team had not been given their shirts at the time of writing these lines, three hours before the time of the expected match against USM Algeria in the first leg of the CAF Cup semi-finals.

The Algerian newspaper “An-Nahar” quoted a statement by Walid Sadi, President of the Algerian Football Federation, a short while ago, in which he said that new shirts had been acquired for Nahdet Berkane, in order to ensure that the match would be played this evening.

Sadi continued, in the same statement, that even if RS Berkane played today’s match with new shirts, the Algerian Federation refuses to play USM Al-Asimah’s return match against the Moroccan team with shirts bearing the entire map of Morocco.

The statements of the president of the “FAF” did not stop there, as the man himself threatened, according to the Algerian newspaper, to resort to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS), if the Algerian position was not treated fairly by the Confederation of African Football.