The Algerian Football Federation decided, today, Sunday, to punish the referee of the match between CS Constantine and ES Maqra, which took place yesterday evening, Saturday, for the first professional league championship.
The Algerian Football Federation said, statement Officially, it was published, today, Sunday, on its website: “The Algerian Football Federation expresses its regret for the events that accompanied the match between the Constantine Sports Club and ES Maqra, within Fourteenth round From the first league championship, which included a serious arbitration error that harmed the image of arbitration.”
The “FAF” statement added, explaining: “Under the powers delegated to it, the Emergency Committee of the Algerian Football Federation decided to immediately arrest the two referees, Lotfi Boukwasa and Adel Abane, while assigning the Federal Arbitration Committee to open an investigation into their actions and take appropriate measures.”
The Federal Authority continued: “The Algerian Football Federation, which continues to work to raise the technical level and enhance the ethics of arbitration, confirms that it will not tolerate any violations or behavior that may harm the image of Algerian football or cause violence, whether by referees, managers or players.” “.
In a related context, the statement pointed out that the FAF Emergency Committee decided to “assign the Federal Arbitration Committee to evaluate the technical performance of the referees before the end of the first leg, and to draw up a list of the best referees capable of efficiently managing the matches of the First Professional League.”
The match witnessed a strange incident, the hero of which was the refereeing team led by Lotfi Bukwasa. The match was taking place under normal circumstances until the last minute of stoppage time, when CS Constantine scored a goal. However, the television replay showed that striker Omeli was in an offside position at the moment the goal was scored, but the assistant referee did not raise the flag, which angered the visiting team players, who put terrible pressure on the assistant referee after watching the footage on mobile phones.
Although the confrontation took place in the absence of the “VAR” technique, the main referee, Boukwasa, returned to consult with his assistant, while the players of both teams gathered around him, and after a relatively long period, he announced that the goal had been canceled on the pretext of offside, which led to complete chaos inside the field and great discontent among the “Smurfs” supporters in the stands of the “Martyr” stadium. Hamlawy.”
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