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Thursday, February 5, 2015

AFCON 2015: Tunisia face Banned from 2017 edition

Tunisia may be banned from the next Africa Cup of Nations after they refused to apologize to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for accusing the confederation of cheating.
                         
The North African Nation made allegations after conceding a controversial stoppage-time penalty in a 2-1 loss to AFCON 2015 host Equatorial Guinea in the quarter-finals of the ongoing tournament.

Ultimatum by CAF

The Tunisians had been given until Thursday by CAF to say sorry of face a ban from the 2017 AFCON edition.

According to how BBC Sports reported, after a meeting on Wednesday, the Tunisian FA refused to apologize the spokesman saying the team had "suffered scandalous injustice from referees."

Referee 

The Confederation of African Football which fined Tunisia after players confronted referee Rajindraparsad Seechurn after the final whistle, had wanted the 2004 champions to apologize for insinuations of bias and lack of ethics against CAF and its officials, or to present evidence to substantiate their accusations. Now it look like they are going to be banned by CAF from participating in the 2017 edition.

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