CAF competitions gets Brand new official names

The Confederation of African Football Executive Committee have renamed six of their continental competitions.

       

Some of the competition that were renamed are:  African Women’s Championship now (Africa Women Cup of Nations); (African U-23 Championship now (Africa U-23 Cup of Nations); African Youth Championship now (Africa U-20 Cup of Nations).

Others are Africa U-17 Cup of Nations (formerly African U-17 Championship); Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations (formerly African Beach Soccer Championship) and Africa Futsal Cup of Nations (formerly African Futsal Championship).

Meanwhile, the draw for the 4th African Nations Championship scheduled for Rwanda between 16 January and 7 February, 2016, will take place in Kigali on November 18.

Nigeria will face Burkina Faso over two legs in October for a place in the championship.

Adamu and others Makes CAF Return

Former FIFA executive committee member, Dr Amos Adamu, is back on official football duty after years of being out.

Source :Complete Sports

Adamu was suspended by FIFA from all football activities for three years in 2010 after being fingered in a bribery scandal.

Although the ban expired in 2013, Adamu kept a low profile, until he resurfaced on Monday.

The former Director-General of the National Sports Commission has been named as a member of CAF's Nations Cup Organizing Committee, a key committee overseeing the organization of Africa's most important football competition.

Adamu was once one of the most powerful men in Nigerian, African and even world football before a Sunday Times investigation implicated him in a corruption case.

He was once tipped to take over as CAF President at the end of Issah Hayatou's tenure before the ban put paid to that ambition.

Other Nigerians involved in new CAF appointments are Gbenga Elegbeleye and Dominic Oneya, who are in committees, while Emeka Inyama and Chris Green have been dropped.

Nigeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick, former President Aminu Maigari and Aisha Falode are among Nigerians who retained their CAF positions. 

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.

AFCON 2015: Referee Seechurn Rajindrapasard Suspended with the host Equatorial Guinea and Tunisia

The Confederation of African Football (CAF), have meted out a heavy suspension on referee Seechurn Rajindrapasard, who was in charge of the quarter-final match between AFCON host Equatorial Guinea and Tunisia, at the ongoing competition and the teams involved respectively.

                         

Tunisians were on their way to qualify for the last four after taking a 1-0 lead, but Rajindrapasard awarded the hosts a controversial 92nd minute penalty, which saw them draw level. Equatorial Guinea eventually went on to win the match in extra time.

According to the statement released on CAF’s website read on Tuesday: ''At its extraordinary meeting held at the CAF headquarters In Bata, Equatorial Guinea on the 2nd February, 2015, the CAF Referees Committee reviewed the performance of the referee Seechurn Rajindrapasard (Mauritius) during Match No. 26, Tunisia vs. Equatorial Guinea played on 31 January 2015 in Bata in the final tournament of the 2015 Orange Africa Cup of Nations.

“The Referees Committee noted with regret the poor performance of the referee during the match, including an unacceptable failure to maintain calm and ensure proper control of the players during the match.

''Hence the Referees Committee decided:

– To end the mission of Seechurn Rajindrapasard as a referee for the Orange AFCON 2015

– To suspend him for a period of six (6) months for poor performance

– To delist him from the CAF “A” Elite Referees panel.''

The African football principal body frowned at the conduct of Tunisians after the match and have also been heavily billed for their deeds. Meanwhile, host Equatorial Guinea were fined $5000 over fans invasion.