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Aug 7 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Breaking: In an embarrassment for #PatriceMotsepe, the @CAF_Online President, @SAFPU_Official, #SouthAfrica’s Players Union, declare their strong opposition to CAF’s plan for an #AfricanSuperLeague, which will be put before the CAF congress in #Arusha, #Tanzania on August 10th.
In a separate discussion I had with a top executive of @AlAhly @AlAhlyEnglish on Friday, he told me @CAF_Online was yet to give his club “concrete details” of how the Super League proposal will work.
“We were invited to #Cameroon for the last #AFCON, where the preliminary plan for the #AfricanSuperLeague was put to us & selected clubs from across the continent. But no concrete details, on the finances and other important details, have been given, up till now.”
“We have been invited to the @CAF_Online congress in #Arusha, #Tanzania and we shall see what CAF tells us there. @AlAhly will only take a formal position on the plan when CAF gives us something to comment on, after we have been fully briefed,” he said.

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Aug 5
Just had a near hour-long “off the record” conversation with a top executive of @AlAhly @AlAhlyEnglish, on the #AfricanSuperLeague, @CAF_Online, @TheRealPitso and various #Egyptian and #African #football issues…
On @TheRealPitso: “#Ahly, as a club, hold him in the highest regard, though he is no longer with us. He was never sacked & he never came to us with a desire to leave. The mutual decision to part was a consequence of discussions that we had, which showed a difference in vision.”
“@TheRealPitso, in the entire history of @AlAhly, is the only coach to retain his position after losing the league title. This tells you the regard in which we held him. But it came to a point where we asked him to make changes and he didn’t agree to them, so things ended.”
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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.”
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Jul 5
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…
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Jul 5
If there was no @FIFAWorldCup, and just an #AFCON, would he have switched, #Ghana folks? Just wondering…
This is what Inaki said to @guardian_sport in September 2021: "Ghana tried to convince me, but I was born in Spain, in Bilbao. I won’t ever forget my family roots, but I feel Basque and can’t con anyone. I would be comfortable with Ghana, I’m sure, but I shouldn’t be there …”
"My parents are from Accra and I really enjoy going. But I wasn’t born or raised there, my culture’s here, and there are players for whom it would mean more. I don’t think it would be right to take the place of someone who really deserves to go and who feels Ghana 100%.”
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Jul 5
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.
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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.
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