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Breaking: I have spent the last half-hour with a @CAF_Online official, explaining, off the record, their #WAFCON2022 position on #TeamZambia ‘s @BarbraBanda11. It was a deeply robust discussion and I will disclose what he said. (A thread…)
“Osasu, everyone is criticising us for Banda. But I have one question - did @FAZFootball submit her name as a member of #TeamZambia for the #WAFCON? They never did, at any time. So, how can we talk about a player that was never put forward for registration or registered?”
“@FAZFootball never did, at any time, tell us that @BarbraBanda11 had any issue that made her ineligible for the #WAFCON in #Morocco. That is the truth of the matter. We are not obligated to ask why a country did not register a player for it. That’s an internal matter.”
Breaking: @CAF_Online refuse to issue a statement on why @BarbraBanda11 is ineligible to play for #TeamZambia at the #WAFCON2022, despite a discussion between @FAZFootball & CAF officials on Monday, on the matter.
Correction: the online meeting between @FAZFootball & @CAF_Online was on Tuesday morning.
I am made to understand that @FAZFootball have made it clear that they are holding @CAF_Online fully responsible for @BarbraBanda11’s exclusion from the #WAFCON2022, as a consequence of the gender rules they imposed. More details to follow, as it comes…
From what my #TeamZambia source is saying, and documentation, @CAF_Online clearly has gender/DSD rules players must meet, before they are eligible to play at the #WAFCON, which begs the question: What rules did Barbara Banda fail to meet, that she met for the 2020 @Olympics?
I understand that @CAF_Online is going to release a formal statement to state their position. I hope they do that ASAP, because in Banda’s case, it is coming FOUR YEARS late. There are more questions than answers at the moment.
Every national team doctor at the @CAF_Online #WAFCON has to sign this declaration, which states that every player has been “examined by them or an APPROPRIATE SPECIALIST, to VERIFY their gender. 
The controversy over the absence of #TeamZambia’s Barbara Banda from the #WAFCON2022 in Morocco, for unexplained “medical reasons” continues, as @FAZFootball President Andrew Kamanga confronts @CAF_Online President Motsepe for his comments on the matter, made on Sunday.
Kamanga, according to @bedjosessien (who eye-witnessed the discussion) spoke directly with Motsepe and chastised him for speaking on the Banda issue, when he was clearly not briefed on the matter, telling Motsepe that he shouldn’t have commented on the matter.
It is alleged, but there is no confirmation of it, that gender DSD issues are at the root of Banda’s strange absence from the #WAFCON2022 . Her participation at the @Tokyo2020 @Olympics, where she played without problems for #TeamZambia, only heightens the controversy.
